Aww, D.R. Simpson is closing. The newsagent/bookshop was one of the last hold-outs in Wick, but apparently the costs and the competition from chains stores on the outskirts of town have finally done them in.
Funny that the shop-owners we spoke to in Stromness responded with pity when we said we were visiting from Wick. Stromness is hardly a big place, but it and Kirkwall (the two main towns on the Orkney Islands) have a self-generated spirit and culture about them that Wick, well, doesn’t.