BARRY GORDON catches up with two promoters bringing touring rock and pop bands to Caithness.

IAN STEPHEN embarks on a storytelling adventure on Orkney

MORAG MACINNES sat down over lunch with Alistair Peebles and Dr Laura Watts to chew over a new handbook that attempts to imagine futures for Orkney

TINA ROSE catches up with some Highland craft makers exhibiting at two major London shows

HIGHLAND HOMECOMING hosts a major conference dedicated to assessing Scotland’s impact in the wider world.

JOHN CAIRNS replies to Barry Gordon’s observations on Caithness dialect in George Gunn’s Fields of Barley.

JOLLY ROGER is appalled at the power of a single complaint to force the removal of a promotional gambit for the Inverness Winter Festival, and wonders where it will all end?

James Robertson visited Orkney to read from new work recently, and MORAG MACINNES took the chance to catch up with his doings in the 100 Acre Wood and elsewhere

SIAN JAMIESON reports from HI-Arts latest Makers’ Days event on Orkney.

MARK MORPURGO looks forward to a big Homecoming celebration in Argyll & Bute