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Looking Back â news from the John O Groat Journal of yesteryear By Features Reporter Published: 15:56, 23 January 2021
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In 2005, Thurso air cadets Ross Venters, Keith Whitelaw, Brian Robertson and Jamie Munro came second in a Highland-wide ICT Youth Challenge. The group from the 1769 Squadron Air Cadets, known as Team Typhoon, impressed the judges with their presentation at the end of the gruelling five-day hot house final.
Wick lighting a disgrace
From the Groat of January 21, 1921
Wick Chamber of Commerce heard that the lighting and the state of the roads and streets in the town was a disgrace and that electric lighting should have been installed long ago.