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.