News
Finance report declares health and social underspend
Health services, which are provided by NHS Highland, ended the year with an underspend of £906,000. Social work services, which are provided by Argyll and Bute Council, also had an underspend for the year of £183,000.
News
EU Settlement Scheme deadline only one week away
Those who do not apply to the scheme may not be able to continue living or working in Scotland.
News
Airport rolls out fuel service
‘We’re delighted that our fuelling station is now open to visiting aircraft as restrictions cautiously loosen across Scotland,’ says council leader.
Podcasts
A Something For the Weekend Podcast 18th June 2021
Where on earth is Ellis? Despite his absence he has left us with a spine-chilling tale. Perhaps he had a pressing engagement to go to? Kathie gets her dancing shoes out following her chat with Taynuilt musician and BBC Radio Scotland presenter Gary Innes and there’s music from Leonard Brown and his All-Star Band.
News
Sea tour firm links with hotel
‘We’re excited to be getting back out on the water and start helping show guests the natural beauty of the region.’
News
£150,000 grants for islands
Scotland’s inhabited islands are being invited to apply for grants of up to £150,000.
News
Argyll student’s outstanding contribution celebrated with national award
John Frace created Scotland’s Coronavirus Tracker website which has now attracted 1.5 million users. His Twitter following has exploded to 22,800 followers, including Professors Devi Shridhar, Jason Leitch, Linda Bauld, and the First Minister.
News
Oban litter ‘attracting rats’
Man ‘appalled’ to see rats roaming in elderly mother’s back garden as waste problem sees no sign of abating.
Lochaber
Islands Athlete Travel Award Scheme open for applications
The scheme opens for applications this week and following an application and selection process, athletes will be identified for support by each local authority.
Sport
Feast of football coverage planned for Lochaber listeners of BBC Radio nan Gàidheal
The art of the commentator will be the subject of a special programme to be broadcast later in the tournament which follows one of the most familiar Gaelic football voices Ailig O’Henley, in his journey from Uist to being in the hot seat connecting audiences with these premier events.
Podcasts
A Something For the Weekend Podcast 11th June 2021
With Fiona Scott still on her holibobs it’s up to Steevie, Kathie and Ellis to hold the Something For The Weekend fort. In this week’s podcast, intrepid reporter Kathie transports us back to her ‘oarsome’ nine-mile row up the coast from Seil. We meet her fellow rowers and discover the special treats she had in her lunchbox. Ellis also gets an eyeful as he interviews Speedo Mick, the inspirational Evertonian fan who has become a charity fundraiser, which saw him mobbed by admirers on his arrival in Oban
Lochaber
Ballachulish ferries film to hit Fort big screen next month
Swooping aerial shots take in the splendour of the landscape as he pieces together the final fate of the last ferries of Ballachulish.
Leisure
Kevin focusses on room with a view at Loch Awe
As well as currently showing his work at the new gallery and Kingshouse Hotel in Glencoe, photographer Kevin McGarry is hoping to give a photo talk at Oban Phoenix cinema when it is possible.
Outdoors
Trees for Life launch legal challenge to government’s beaver kill policy
Trees for Life says the Government’s nature agency NatureScot is breaking the law by failing to make the killing of the protected species a last resort when management is required.
Podcasts
A Something For the Weekend Podcast 4th June 2021
Intrepid reporter Kathie regales us with another of her watery adventures as she steels her to take part in an eight-mile local leg of a row around Scotland. We find out who’s been responsible for all the yellow knitted wellies that have been appearing, and have an upbeat new single from Glasgow-based folk singer-songwriter, Scott McWatt, called ‘Where We’ll Be’.
Leisure
Highland Cinema to premier groundbreaking film
Small Country’ was shot and edited between Spring 2019 and Winter 2020 by Gregor D Sinclair and features the transcendent and ethereal music of Richard Skelton.
Podcasts
A Something For the Weekend Podcast 28th May 2021
In this week’s episode of Something For The Weekend Ellis goes to a street festival, Kathie visits a new garden taking root at Oban’s Rockfield Centre to eventually provide natural dyes for creative workshops there and Steevie stormtroops in about a certain Empire that has come to town to film a Star Wars spin-off Disney channel series – or has it?
Lochaber
View from the Edge: Cath MacDonald
The place was unusually quiet for this time of year. Some visitors had arrived on holiday but nothing like the number that had been expected.
Opinion
Around Oban with Kay McDonald – 17.6.21
Some sunshine, some visitors and we’re all ready to go for a fantastic summer season…
Opinion
Beachd Ailein, Allan Campbell – Thursday June 17
Should vaccination against world pandemics ever be made mandatory?
Columnists
Wild Words: Kirsteen Bell
The story of Watership Down began as tales about rabbits Hazel and Fiver that Adams told his young daughters, Juliet and Rosamond, during long car journeys.
Opinion
Around Oban with Kay McDonald – 10.6.21
By the time you read this Oban should be awash with colour and beauty as our flower baskets and troughs will be going up.
Opinion
Beachd Ailein, Allan Campbell – Thursday June 10
Tourism is vital to Scotland’s economy, so why so little investment in basic facilities in a countryside increasingly swamped by thousands of visitors!