The Oban Times http://www.obantimes.co.uk THE newspaper for The Oban Times, Argyll Oban, Fort Willia, Lochaber, Skye and beyond Thu, 16 May 2013 05:44:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 More than 400 sign Oban rent plea petition http://www.obantimes.co.uk/2013/05/16/more-than-400-sign-oban-rent-plea-petition/ http://www.obantimes.co.uk/2013/05/16/more-than-400-sign-oban-rent-plea-petition/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 05:44:40 +0000 ot http://www.obantimes.co.uk/?p=7881 syfg-petition

More than 400 people have signed a petition asking Argyll  Community Housing Association (ACHA) to reconsider its decision to put the rent up from £100 to £3,600 a year  on a property used by community organisation  Soroba Young Family Group, a registered charity.

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‘Greed’ has been blamed for the collapse of Argyll and Bute Council’s  SNP-led administration. Council leader James Robb resigned as a result of the SNP’s National Executive Committee suspending membership of its Argyll and Bute councillors following a ‘deal’ with the council’s Liberal Democrat and Conservative members.

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Lochaber Gael Charlie MacColl has criticised declining standards at the Royal National Mod as he bids farewell to the Meur Lochabair after 29 years.

Read more in The Oban Times, May 16 2013, or on line at www.obantimes.co.uk/digital

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The biggest cheer of the Scottish Six Days Trial was reserved for Kinlochleven’s Gary MacDonald after he picked up third over-all and top Scot at the event in Fort William and Lochaber.

Read the full report in The Oban Times, may 16 2013 and on line at www.obantimes.co.uk/digital

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An island’s second annual book festival has been declared ‘magical’, by a top crime writer.

Find out more about what Scot’s author Ian Rankin thought of the Colonsay Book Festival in The Oban Times, May 16 2013 or on line at www.obantimes.co.uk/digital

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