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Britain’s best loved home event,The Ideal Home Show is returning to the SECC in Glasgow from June 2 to June 5 and The Oban Times has ten pairs of tickets up for grabs.

Be inspired by the spectacular Princes show home,stunning interior room sets,live cooking demonstrations from celebrity chefs,brilliant show gardens,the latest gadgets and gizmos and much more.  A whole host of celebrity ambassadors will be at the show including Lorraine Kelly,Laurence Llewelyn Bowen and Suzi Perry.  Visit www.idealhomeshowscotland.co.uk

For your chance to win a pair of tickets simply answer the easy question in The Oban Times,May 17 2012,complete the coupon and post it to Wyvex Media,Ideal Homes Competition,PO Box 1,Oban,Argyll,PA34 4HB.  Entries must be submitted by Friday,May 24^th 2012.

Terms and conditions:  The prize is as stated.  No cash alternative. The Editor’s decision is final. Photocopied entry coupons will not be accepted.  The winner may be asked to take part in publicity and may appear in a Wyvex Media publication and website. This competition is not open to Wyvex Media and associated company employees and their families.  This competition is open to readers of other Wyvex Media publications. Tickets will be posted to the winners nearer the date of the event.

Curator Elaine McChesney and Volunteer Ian Cumming at Dunollie’s 1745 House

Oban’s Dunollie Preservation Trust is facing up to a £25,000 short-fall in funding as it strives to install a lighting system and specialist canopy at Dunollie’s 1745 House.

While the majority of £76,000 needed has been agreed and applications have been made to other funders for the short fall,the project is proving to be ‘not sexy’with funders,according to the trust’s Catherine Gillies.

‘The bottom line is that we cannot afford to do it by the skin of our teeth again and we need that lighting,’she said.

The aim is to make the 1745 House,near Dunollie Castle,a cultural hub for the Oban area.

For the full story see The Oban Times,May 17 2012 or on line at www.obantimes.co.uk/digital

An engraved plaque commemorating the centenary of the first ascent of Ben Nevis by motorcar 100 years ago has found a home at last –on the wall of a pub below the historic mountain.

To read the full story behind the plaque and its origin see The Oban Times,May 17 2012 or on line at www.obantimes.co.uk/digital

The B8007 between Salen and Kilchoan has been closed this afternoon,May 15 2012,after a Calor Gas tanker and a lorry collided on the single track road a mile west of Glenborrodale.

No-one was injured in the accident,which happened at around 2.45 pm.  Although recovery vehicles had arrived on the scene by 5.30pm,police said that it could take several hours to clear.

Local disruption could be considerable as the road is west Ardnamurchan’s only land link east.

For more news and details see The Oban Times,May 17 2012 or on line from the same date at www.obantimes.co.uk/digital

A business on the shores of Loch Creran,North Lorn,is set to take advantage of its position,not only next to the loch but beside the SUSTRANS  Oban-Fort William cycle-path.

Find out how this North Argyll inn is coining in on more than one kind of passing trade in The Oban Times,May 17 2012 or on line at www.obantimes.co.uk/digital from the same date.