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Defence of Camps ‘loafers’, ‘Lady Courage’ on TV show and Passengers’ snowdrift ordeal
9+ hour, 30+ min ago (691+ words) LOOKING BACK: News from the John O'Groat Journal of yesteryear Defence of Camps "loafers' From the Groat of February 5, 1926 A defence of those who sat on the bench at the Camps in Wick had been made following a letter to…...
From Nazi wedding band at Watten to German death camp survival and Piper Alpha disaster: The extraordinary story of the Cukrowski family
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1444+ words) A couple reunited in death at Watten cemetery told the final chapter of an incredible wartime story that included Nazi prisoners of war playing music at their wedding. Ian Cukrowski, who now lives in Aberdeen, laid his mother, Elizabeth Cukrowski…...
New book on fake WW2 airfield at Sarclet that fooled Nazi bombers – ‘There’s over 50 unexploded bombs still there’
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (726+ words) A Caithness man has authored a new book on a clever ruse to fool German aircrews into bombing a decoy airfield at Sarclet during WWII instead of operational sites at Wick, Skitten and Castletown. Rob More's book, The Dummy Drome,…...