LOVE was in the air in Kingussie at the weekend when two wartime sweethearts sneaked away from their families for a romantic Highland getaway.

FAMILY and friends gathered with locals near Laggan for the unveiling of a cairn erected in memory of a wartime hero who died near the spot while trying to save the lives of his colleagues.

A FILM has been shot to tell the remarkable story of a Norwegian who was trained near Aviemore in the skills he needed to become one of the most deadly saboteurs of the Second World War.

MEMBERS of the Aviemore Blackhawks turned back the clock more than 20 years when they took to the ice for a reunion at Inverness rink at the weekend.

A COLLEGE principal is appealing for information on the 6th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, in the hope of documenting the sacrifice made by men from Strathspey in the Great War.

THE heyday of Aviemore's status as British champions of ice hockey will be recalled next month when members of the village's two former teams meet for a reunion match.

A TEAM from across the Armed Forces have completed their mission to recover a graphic reminder of an accident that claimed the lives of seven airmen at the height of World War II.

THE Strathspey Steam Railway is harking back to the years of World War II when troops from the area and further north used to use the busy Aviemore junction.

A PROPELLER from a Lancaster bomber which crashed in the remote Badenoch mountainside is to be retrieved and used as a memorial to the Australian airmen who perished, and their comrades killed in the Second World War.

GIANT hammers dating back nearly 300 years are now on display for all to see near the site of their original "home" in Nethy Bridge.

MEMORIES of the old Tin Church at Dulnain Bridge have been reawakened for some of the strath's older residents with the refurbishment of the church's pulpit by pupils from Grantown Grammar School.

THE missing grave of a Scots-born World War I Canadian infantryman has finally been traced after 88 years thanks to some good old-fashioned detective work by a Grantown store assistant.

AN INSIGHT into life in the Grantown area during the years of World War II has come to fruition with the publication of a book featuring a host of local characters.

A RUINED castle, thought to be among the oldest in Scotland, is to undergo work to stop its ancient walls from crumbling.

THREE wartime relics salvaged from the flames that destroyed an historic Kingussie building nearly a decade ago have been given a new lease of life.

THE installation of the three commemorative plaques in Talla nan Ros means that Kingussie's proud wartime fund-raising record is once again on show for all to see.

TWO former Army majors from Badenoch and Strathspey are to take part in a ceremony to commemorate a key World War II battle later this month.

A MILITARY historian is appealing to people to remember one of the bloodiest conflicts in India which claimed the life of a Badenoch soldier a century and a half ago.

DESCENDANTS of emigrants who left the Kingussie area for a new life in Canada are celebrating the 175th anniversary of the founding of their community.

ALVIE Primary School pupils sat to attention behind old school desks to learn lessons from the end of the 19th Century while on a visit to the Highland Folk Park in Newtonmore.

THE opening of a new exhibit at the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore promises to have visitors licking their lips with glee.

TALES of people dropping dead in their fields from starvation, and people having to climb out of chimneys to escape their snow-buried homes, feature in an outstanding new exhibition in Grantown.