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Caithness

[keyth-nes, keyth-nes]

noun

  1. a historic county in NE Scotland.



Caithness

/ keɪθˈnɛs, ˈkeɪθnɛs /

noun

  1. (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland

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In 2020 Gail Ross, the SNP's MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, announced that she would not seek re-election as she wanted to watch her son grow up.

From BBC

Booth, 65, is separately appealing a civil court ruling earlier this year which stated that he trafficked and exploited women and violently whipped them both at Lochdhu Lodge in Caithness, and overseas.

From BBC

Another woman who worked for Booth at Lochdhu Lodge in Caithness told BBC Scotland News she had to sign a contract allowing him to "punish" her.

From BBC

Their new home was Lochdhu Lodge in Altnabreac, a small community in Caithness.

From BBC

And a humpback whale that died after coming ashore near Thurso, in Caithness, in 2019 may have become entangled in fishing gear thousands of miles away.

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