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LAST FERRY TO ORCADIA: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn.
On the Wednesday night before the election a violent storm hit Caithness. Around eight o clock the sky turned black and great sheets of snow, sleet and hail lashed in from the Atlantic on a cruel North West wind. Ghostly, almost thunderless, white lightening flashed like a signal out of the firmament. Surely, I thought, this is a portent, like the Valkyrie seen over Murkle before the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, for one of the most important and strangest elections in Scotland’s history.
Because what sort of election is it when the main issue on the minds of the majority of the Scottish people, no matter that the media insist it isn’t, is independence for their country. But not so, it would appear, for the SNP, the only party that can deliver it? The SNP constantly deny this, but they have not campaigned for it. What an extraordinary set of affairs. Do they really think they can achieve independence by ignoring
One of the UK s rarest bumblebees has been discovered by conservationists in Caithness. The Great Yellow bumblebee, previously only found in four other areas, was spotted 10 miles south of John O’Groats in an area of thick heathland. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust discovered a nest of the bees while carrying out surveys in the north of Scotland, supported by a £31,000 grant from the ScottishPower foundation. The project aims to establish the population and location of the Great Yellow bumblebee to help advise landowners on how to restore and recreate habitat to boost numbers of the endangered species. The bees are now known to exist in five population centres: Caithness, North West Sutherland, Orkney, the Inner Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides.