The sidewalks were gray and uneven, and the sky looked like a mirror without a tain, the place where everything should have been reflected but where, in the end, nothing was.

NEWYORKER: Meeting with Enrique Lihn

The mussel fishery has had a long association with the people of Tain.

BBC: Highland Fresh Mussels' future in question

Highland Council had been a previous operator of the firm, which puts a chunk of its profits into the Tain Common Good Fund.

BBC: Highland Fresh Mussels' future in question

Michael Davidson, 27, of Invergordon, fled Tain Sheriff Court by climbing through a window.

BBC: Easter Ross stalker who went on the run jailed

In Tain she pricked the wrong person - a man called John Hay.

BBC: The woman who became a witch-pricker

There followed a reign of terror where she pricked witches as far north as Tain.

BBC: The woman who became a witch-pricker

Tesco has sought a judicial review of Highland Council's approval of an Asda supermarket in Tain.

BBC: Tesco wants Asda's Tain store approval reviewed

Tain Allotment Group has proposed marking out 58 different plots and building a toilet block on land off Scotsburn Road known as Croft Arthur.

BBC: Potatoes

Judge Lord Malcolm rejected Tesco's bid for a judicial review of Highland Council's approval in principle of Asda's planned store in Tain.

BBC: Shopping baskets at dawn in the Highlands