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Pipe Major Colin Simpson and Pipe Major Mark Macrae were among six army pipers hand-picked to accompany the royal couple to Italy.

Work to dual the A9 between Tomaring and Moy will see overnight traffic signals introduced for two weeks from April 28.

Three friends made the 863-mile end-to-end trip with a fuel consumption figure of 376 miles per gallon using a plug-in hybrid Volkswagen Golf GTE.

Roxane Andersen will run 110km across the Flow Country on Friday, April 18.

An event to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day will be held in Bettyhill Village Hall.

A Sutherland councillor has been suspended for two months for behaving “disrespectfully” towards the chairman and committee of a community group.

Police Scotland has confirmed that the A9 has been reopened

The A9 was closed in two locations on Tuesday lunchtime after separate crashes on the busy trunk road in Easter Ross and Sutherland.

Highland Council has opened the extended car park and new toilet facilities at Achmelvich Beach in time for Easter weekend.

The Ometepe Project provides uniforms and educational materials and equipment for eight schools on Ometepe Island.

Volunteers cleared heather and foliage from a key path up to View Rock and rebuilt a track beyond the Montrose Bridge.

More than 150,000 passengers will arrive at the port in 2025, with 97 cruise ship calls scheduled.

The awards ceremony takes place in Glasgow in May.

Assistant chief-exec Kate Lackie says the local authority had continued to fund the service ‘without fail’ and would have continued to do so.

Windows and a car windscreen were smashed at the Victoria Drive property.

Trains are once again calling at Altnabreac Station in the Flow Country, bringing the request stop’s 18-month long closure to an end.

The Battle of Littleferry took place during the Jacobie Rising in 1746, just before the Battle of Culloden.

Cllr Michael Baird is accused of contravening the Code of Conduct on issues of “respect and courtesy, and bullying and harassment”.

Letter writers give their point of view on topical issues affecting Sutherland and the wider Highlands.

Twenty-nine acts will take to the two stages at an Elgin festival.