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Iain Sutherland hosted a popular community radio slot called the Grumpy Old Veteran Show, claiming to have served in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) in Bosnia.
Iain Sutherland wearing a Royal Engineers beret
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Looking Back â news from the John O Groat Journal of yesteryear By Features Reporter Published: 14:56, 21 February 2021
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Publicans fight no-licence decision
From the Groat of January 18, 1921
An action had been raised in the Court of Session by the licence holders of Wick against the Wick Town Council, the returning officer and the town clerk of Wick for the annulment of the result of the Temperance (Scotland) Act poll in the town.
The vote at the end of the previous year saw Wickers opt for the no-licence option which would lead to the closure of pubs and severely restrict the sale of alcohol in hotels.
Covid restrictions force cancellation of Hogmanay bonfire in Wick By Alan Hendry
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Updated: 11:41, 22 December 2020
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Wick s Hogmanay bonfire has become the latest casualty of the coronavirus restrictions.
The community event at the town s Bignold Park has suffered the same fate as other fire festivals across Scotland in having to be scrapped in the interest of public safety.
The cancellation is especially poignant as it comes in the year that saw the passing of Wick historian Iain Sutherland, who revived the bonfire tradition in the early 1970s. He died in May, aged 83.
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