The Inverness Courier

08/02/2025

The Inverness Courier is celebrating after it won numerous awards including local website of the year in a prestigious industry competition.

08/02/2025

Grain and Grind has eight shops across Scotland, including one on Tomnahurich Street, alongside its coffee roastery on Lotland Street.

08/02/2025

Tourism levy plans are “genuinely scaring small businesses”, a Highland MSP has warned.

08/02/2025

We're excited to have Strictly Inverness contestants Becky and Michael on our latest episode of Strictly for a Cause! 🎉 Join us as we dive into all the gossip, news, and fundraising efforts from the amazing competitors as we get closer to the big day!

08/02/2025

In this week’s episode we talk to contestants Becky Oman and Michael Mackenzie who are taking part in Strictly Inverness 2025.

08/02/2025

Highland football clubs operating at the grassroots level have been taking steps to meet new criteria for participation after the summer.

08/02/2025

In all his years donating blood, Duncan MacAulay probably never expected to be in a position where he was in dire need of some of it back.

The Inverness-based Scottish Fire and Rescue Service employee estimates he had given blood at least 60 times, but the tables were turned on him when he went into heart failure and needed a transplant almost two years ago.

Thankfully, he has since recovered - and even created Scotland's transplant football team to compete in the European Championships in April - but he does hold some regret that he will not be able to return to the habit of donating blood in future.

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08/02/2025

"Some bookies had put the then-Division One side at 18/1 to beat Celtic... Dreamland became reality."

What was it like reporting on what at the time was the most famous result in the history of Inverness Caledonian Thistle? Leah Williamson was at Celtic Park reporting for the Inverness Courier 25 years ago. She remembers working on that famous night.

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08/02/2025

"No way were we expecting any kind of upset. At the time, there hadn’t been anything of that magnitude since Rangers lost to Berwick in 1967.

“As soon as Caley took the lead, we started work on the headline."

We speak to the man behind that legendary headline, which was etched into football history 25 years ago.

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08/02/2025

It is still one of the most famous results in the history of Scottish football.

It was 25 years ago today Inverness Caledonian Thistle went ballistic and defeated Celtic 3-1 at Parkhead in the Scottish Cup third round on February 8 2000.

It is a result that made football fans stand up and take notice of Caley Thistle and a moment which is still celebrated today.

We have interviewed some of the players who made that day happen.

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08/02/2025

Super-Caley-Go-Ballistic 25 years on: Head coach Scott Kellacher had one of the best seats in the house for what was one of Inverness Caledonian Thistle’s greatest ever results.

Scott Kellacher recalls historic night.

08/02/2025

Staff illness has sparked the cancellation of some trains on the Far North Line for the second day in a row.

Staff illness has sparked the cancellation of trains on the Far North Line for the second day in a row.

08/02/2025

Who were the men who caused one of the biggest Scottish Cup shocks of all time? We take a look at the Inverness Caledonian Thistle team which beat Celtic 3-1 in the Scottish Cup third round 25 years ago. Can you name them all?

Who was in the famous team 25 years ago?

08/02/2025

The man who wrote the famous 'Super Caley Go Ballistic...' headline talks modestly about that night 25 years ago - and what happened next.

It was seven words long and perfectly-formed – capturing in a nutshell the seismic nature of what Caley Thistle had just gone and done.

08/02/2025

What was it like reporting on what at the time was the most famous result in the history of Inverness Caledonian Thistle? Leah Williamson was at Celtic Park reporting for the Inverness Courier 25 years ago. She remembers working on that famous night.

Our reporter Leah Williamson, who was reporting on the night Caley Thistle went ballistic, shares her memories of that occasion at Celtic Park.

07/02/2025

They have already beaten both of last year’s finalists.

07/02/2025

He had opened the scoring in the classic Scottish Cup shock, but one of his lasting memories came after the final whistle.

07/02/2025

Smoke was visible over a large area on either side of the Cromarty Firth.

A blaze in a farm building visible today for miles across the Black Isle and parts of Easter Ross was caused by a car catching fire.