Lochaber
Lochaber landscapes uniquely captured in exhibition
Just as in real life the further back you stand from the subject the more breathtaking the view can become and Jonathan’s work is just the same.
Lochaber
Nevis Hillwalking Club – weekend walks preview
The Monadliath is a large desolate area of high-altitude moorland that contains four Munros.
Leisure
Free film to show power of water at McCaig’s Tower
A free outdoor screening of a documentary celebrating the awesome and destructive power of water will be shown at McCaig’s Tower in Oban as part of a nationwide festival of Scottish film
Leisure
Snorkeling artists sketch Argyll’s ‘world class’ seafloor
By all accounts, it was as hard as it sounds.
Leisure
Creating Scotland’s next boom: arts and crafts
Crafting a brighter future in the face of the pandemic – Craft Scotland’s COMPASS Programme seeks to support ‘a nation of makers’
Leisure
The Big Bike Film Night tours into Lochaber
The Big Bike Film Night shares ‘the best cycling short films from around the world’
News
SAMS scientists and subs return safe from melting glacier in Svalbard
‘It is like the west of Scotland, but with huge ice streams between the peaks,’ said Professor Mark Inall of SAMS. ‘[The glacier] has retreated half the distance from Connel to Taynuilt, which is the distance I bike.’
Podcasts
A Something For the Weekend Podcast 10th September 2021
A quartet of hardy seafarers paid a visit to the region recently to test the choppy West Coast waters ahead of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Rowing Challenge.
Leisure
Inbetweeners producer to shoot new film Silent Roar in Outer Hebrides
Silent Roar, an ‘adolescent tale of surfing, sex and Hellfire’ from the makers of The Inbetweeners, begins shooting in Uig on the Isle of Lewis
Leisure
Lewis and Harris Piping Society to resume live recitals from next month
Kinloch Historical Society said it is proud to host a recital from world class piper PM Roddy Macleod, whose father came from the village of Balallan.
Outdoors
Salmon farms fund fight to halt drop in wild salmon and sea trout stocks
Scotland’s salmon farmers have set up a £1.5 million fund for projects tackling the fall of wild salmon and sea trout stocks in Scottish rivers
Lochaber
Nevis Hillwalking Club sets sights on Loch Quoich peaks
For more detail of the routes please visit the website https://www.nevishillwalking.club or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/NevisHillwalkingClub/
Lochaber
Former Canna teacher shines light on island school’s history in new book
‘The book also reflects the islanders’ dependence on the other islands especially Eigg, for the minister, priest, the original school board and, finally, a doctor,’ says its author, Kate Riley.
Leisure
Islay guitarist releases first solo album
Islay musician Robin Miller releases his debut album ‘Beelines’, featuring songs dedicated to Gruinart, hedgehogs, and the Wyre Majestic shipwreck
Outdoors
Fish farmer asks all 500 staff to help clean beaches
Beach clean to be business-wide effort, says Scottish Sea Farms
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Travelling abroad has changed
The pandemic has changed the way we travel abroad. The Government has put in place a traffic light system – green, amber, red – designed to tell you the actions that need to be taken on return from overseas travel. Other changes have been made because the UK has left the EU.
FAB Guide
Robot fun with One Button Benny at Waterstone’s
Author Alan Windram will be reading from his new children’s picture book for three to seven-year-olds.
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Travelling abroad has changed
The pandemic has changed the way we travel abroad. The Government has put in place a traffic light system – green, amber, red – designed to tell you the actions that need to be taken on return from overseas travel. Other changes have been made because the UK has left the EU.
Leisure
Acharacle studio launches exhibitions in lockdown
The current shows are on display until mid-July, by which time it is hoped the gallery may be able to open its doors to the public once again.
Gallery
A very happy birthday to you all
Send us a picture of your wee one enjoying their special day and we will publish it and wish them Happy Birthday!
Gallery
West Highland photography student’s work showcases in Parliament exhibition
Work from students from the Highlands and Islands include Sheila Matheson, of West Highland College UHI.
Gallery
Tayvallich artists open their doors for Argyll art show
The Tayvallich Inn marks the obvious gateway to a tour of the studios. Situated at the entrance to the village, it will also showcase art from at least two of the local artists, as well as work from a number of guest artists.
Gallery
New exhibition explores Argyll coast
‘I hope Hush encourages the audience to connect with the physical place.’
Gallery
Mull and Iona Glasgow Association ceilidh was huge success
It was the new era as Ross Wilson and his team presented the new committee’s first event.
Gallery
Argyll brings in the new year in style
New Year fireworks display in Oban and Tobermory, Mull.
Gallery
Jingle all the way at Oban High School’s Christmas dance
Youngsters kick-off the festive holidays at their Christmas Jingles.
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Travelling abroad has changed
The pandemic has changed the way we travel abroad. The Government has put in place a traffic light system – green, amber, red – designed to tell you the actions that need to be taken on return from overseas travel. Other changes have been made because the UK has left the EU.
Holiday West Highland
Holiday West Highland Summer 2021
The summer edition of Holiday West Highland is packed full of great reads. From Events and Activities, Area Info, Days Out and Boat Trips. Find out what the West Highlands has to offer.
Holiday West Highland
Holiday West Highland Summer 2019
The summer edition of Holiday West Highland is packed full of great reads. From Events and Activities, Area Info, Days Out and Boat Trips. Find out what the West Highlands has to offer.
Holiday West Highland
Holiday West Highland Spring 2019
The spring edition of Holiday West Highland is packed full of great reads. From Events and Activities, Area Info, Days Out and Boat Trips. Find out what the West Highlands has to offer.
Holiday West Highland
Holiday West Highland
The latest magazine is packed full on news and great ideas of places to visit this spring.
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Travelling abroad has changed
The pandemic has changed the way we travel abroad. The Government has put in place a traffic light system – green, amber, red – designed to tell you the actions that need to be taken on return from overseas travel. Other changes have been made because the UK has left the EU.
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Here’s the June issue of Lochaber Life!
We have produced this issue as digital only, due to delivery and financial constraints – so please SHARE FAR AND WIDE!
News
Pippa steps up for NHS charity
Roybridge student Pippa Macdonald came up with her own #StepUp4OurNHS challenge and scaled the equivalent of Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike at her student lodgings in Northumbria.
News
UHI nursing and midwifery students give NHS a helping hand
More than 120 nursing and midwifery students have started their final placements early to help bolster the NHS workforce.
Leisure
Lochaber Life – May 2020
This month’s Lochaber Life is packed full of great reads, including Name that Lochaber Bird, German tourist says thanks for kindness, and COVID – 19 YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Leisure
Lochaber Life – April 2020
This month’s Lochaber Life is packed full of great reads, including Tackling the unused drugs mountain, North Ballachulish Railway and Opera in Arisaig.
Leisure
Lochaber Life – March 2020
This month’s Lochaber Life is packed full of great reads, including 150 years of Lochaber Curling Club, Don’t Feed the Deer and Shy Bullfinch.
Leisure
Lochaber Life – February 2020
This month’s Lochaber Life is packed full of great reads, including Hedgehog Hospital and Sanctuary, Founder of Lochaber Scouts and Iconic Lochaber.
Leisure
Lochaber Life – January 2020
This month’s Lochaber Life is packed full of great reads, including Ballachulish Bible Stories Revealed, The Year 2000 and Kilmallie Cemetery Uncovered.
Leisure
Lochaber Life – December 2019
This month’s Lochaber Life is packed full of great reads, including Unique gift, Lochaber Men in Kilts charity calendar, Children’s railway story and Bye Bye BA Club.
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Travelling abroad has changed
The pandemic has changed the way we travel abroad. The Government has put in place a traffic light system – green, amber, red – designed to tell you the actions that need to be taken on return from overseas travel. Other changes have been made because the UK has left the EU.
Leisure
Author Liz feels intimate connection on Iona
Artist’s residencies over the past month have made for a very special creative and international community at the North End of Iona
Leisure
Original RET architect to speak at book festival
Roy Pedersen will take part in a session at West Over Sea on Mull next month.
Leisure
MacIntyre and Butler aim to serve up a musical treat on Mull
Tobermory musician is working on new stage musical after success of Tobermory-based play.
Leisure
Mull and Iona Life – Summer 2019
The Summer issue of Mull & Iona Life is packed full of great reads, including Mull eagles film wings it’s way to BBC, Estate plants native forest to save Mull’s natural world and Mull man given BEM after ‘selfless service’.
Mull and Iona Life
Justice for Elsie a step closer thanks to sibling strength
Anne Cleave, from Mull, is looking for long awaited answers at new inquest
Leisure
Mull and Iona Life – Spring 2019
The Spring issue of Mull & Iona Life is packed full of great reads, including Cash Boost for Mull and Iona Projects, Mull Rally Hopes for 2019, Mull Pupil turns Teacher and Club has Focus on Rewilding Mull.
Leisure
Mull remembers…
Islanders celebrated the Battle’s Over event with an ’emotional ceremony’ at the harbour building in Tobermory on Saturday night.
Leisure
Titanic’s forgotten predecessor: SS Norge – an Atlantic catastrophe
Touring exhibition remembers the Norge disaster off Rockall, the second worst civilian maritime disaster ever in the Atlantic after the Titanic
Leisure
Yours for £550k – poor land that named Canada’s richest city
Calgary, Canada’s third largest city, sits in stark contrast to the barren tip of Mull that gave it its name. Now a piece of that history – 382 acres of grazing land plus a pier and ruined village – could be yours for over £550,000.
Leisure
Archaeologists launch ‘Uist Unearthed’ app
The Uist Virtual Archaeology Project at Lews Castle College UHI has launched its brand-new app, Uist Unearthed.
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Travelling abroad has changed
The pandemic has changed the way we travel abroad. The Government has put in place a traffic light system – green, amber, red – designed to tell you the actions that need to be taken on return from overseas travel. Other changes have been made because the UK has left the EU.
Nostalgia
The man behind the mighty pen
Friend and columnist Maxwell MacLeod gives us a glimpse of the man behind Morvern Lines, the Oban Times columnist Iain Thornber
Nostalgia
Oban lockdown inspires tribute to ‘Scotland’s forgotten music genius’
The aim of this website is to remember the man and his music
Nostalgia
Own an old Campbell castle for the cost of London semi
Kilberry Castle’s history has got it all: knights, pirates, buried treasure, duels, cartoons, prison escapes, and the biggest selling piobraireachd book of all time.
Leisure
Did the world’s oldest man live to 180 on the Isle of Jura?
An attempt to solve a 400 year-old mystery.
News
SAMS scientists and subs return safe from melting glacier in Svalbard
‘It is like the west of Scotland, but with huge ice streams between the peaks,’ said Professor Mark Inall of SAMS. ‘[The glacier] has retreated half the distance from Connel to Taynuilt, which is the distance I bike.’
Outdoors
Salmon farms fund fight to halt drop in wild salmon and sea trout stocks
Scotland’s salmon farmers have set up a £1.5 million fund for projects tackling the fall of wild salmon and sea trout stocks in Scottish rivers
Outdoors
Fish farmer asks all 500 staff to help clean beaches
Beach clean to be business-wide effort, says Scottish Sea Farms
Outdoors
Gamekeepers protest at government’s female deer cull
September’s cull of female deer will ‘protect millions of trees’ says the Scottish Government, but ‘angry’ and ‘sickened’ gamekeepers are in protest against this ‘disrespect to deer seasons’, arguing countless orphaned calves will starve.
Outdoors
Planters rewild Loch Craignish with seagrass to help save planet
60 snorkellers have planted a meadow of seagrass in Loch Craignish in Scotland’s first community-led seagrass restoration project, in a bid to capture carbon dioxide faster than a rainforest
Outdoors
New film asks Scottish Government and public to choose rewilding
Scottish Rewilding Alliance ramps up world’s first Rewilding Nation call with launch of new film ‘Choices’
Outdoors
NatureScot urges watersport visitors to keep their distance from seals
Scotland’s nature agency says it’s vital to avoid disturbance at this time of year while harbour seals have pups
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Travelling abroad has changed
The pandemic has changed the way we travel abroad. The Government has put in place a traffic light system – green, amber, red – designed to tell you the actions that need to be taken on return from overseas travel. Other changes have been made because the UK has left the EU.
News
West Coast Review
Here’s the June issue of The West Coast Review!
We have produced this issue as digital only – so please SHARE FAR AND WIDE!
Leisure
West Coast Review – May 2020
This month’s West Coast Review is packed full of great reads, including Learning locally – but remotely, Community Profile and Life through the Lens.
Leisure
West Coast Review – April 2020
This month’s West Coast Review is packed full of great reads, including Care in the Community, Healthy Oban and Easter Activities.
Leisure
West Coast Review – March 2020
This month’s West Coast Review is packed full of great reads, including the BID4Oban 20 page pullout, Culture Countdown at Victory Hall and Join Oban’s Big Spring Clean.
Leisure
West Coast Review – February 2020
This month’s West Coast Review is packed full of great reads, including What’s Next for Dunollie Wood?, Hope Kitchen Needs You and
Argyll Romance.
West Coast Review
What has Rotary achieved over the Festive Season?
Christmas is a very busy time for Rotary.
West Coast Review
Spend a romantic evening this Valentine’s at Aird’s Hotel
Having won a Good Hotel Guide award as the Most Romantic Hotel in Scotland and named Scottish Luxury Hotel 2020, why not treat yourselves to special evening at the Port Appin boutique hotel?
Leisure
West Coast Review – January 2020
This month’s West Coast Review is packed full of great reads, including New Year New Focus, Book your Burns Night and Meet Flappy the Skate.
Leisure
West Coast Review – December 2019
This month’s West Coast Review is packed full of great reads, including Christmas What’s On, Shop Local for Festive Treats and Drivers Do Their Bit.