One man and his dog complete epic 5,000-mile rewilding trek across Canada
Canadian PM and Scotland’s Deputy FM extol Perthshire musician’s ‘astonishing feat’
Outdoors
Leisure
Scots and Irish share Columba’s story in TV show on his 1,500th birthday
BBC ALBA and TG4 collaboration to bring the story of St Columba to life in new documentary
Leisure
Virtual wardrobe at the Highland Folk Museum
For those that have wanted to wear a real piece of history, help is at hand from the Highland Folk Museum
Leisure
‘Wow these people really know how to dance’: Jura’s 2021 champ crowned
The Clydebank band ‘Stilton all Stars’ drove its camper van to Jura for a ‘triumphant’ night of live music in Craighouse village hall, where it also found the island’s annual dance champion
Lochaber
Nevis Hill Walking Club, Sunday, December 5 – Glen Falloch
This Munro is a rocky hill, not visible at the start but seen to advantage from further up Glen Falloch.
Lochaber
Fort William welcomes Highland Book Prize long list author
Merryn Glover visit to Fort William was part of Scottish Book Trust’s annual celebration of books and reading, Book Week Scotland.
Leisure
Lewis musicians pull together for new project
Released last week Invisible Things is the new single from Willie Campbell and The Stations – the new creative guise of collaborative working with fellow Lewis man Norman Paterson.
Advertising
SAIC programme set to support women back into work
Following the success of the inaugural Women Returners Programme, the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has announced plans to deliver a second run of the coaching and career building initiative early next year.
Leisure
Sgoil Chiùil Christmas gig goes live
The online concert will take place on Saturday, December 11 at 7pm.
Lochaber
Nevis Hill Walking Club, Saturday November 27, Glen Roy
Three hills on the east side of Glen Roy.
Leisure
There is nothing like a dame for councillor Baxter
Having been a member of Inverness Operatic Society in the past acting and singing were not a problem for Cllr Baxter although he admits himself that the dancing is taking a bit more work.
Outdoors
There’s no kidding about with these eagle-eyed competition winners
The Hazel and Agg families took part in Heart of Argyll Wildlife and Kilmartin Museum’s Treasure Hunt Trail competition, a self-guided tour which invited participants to take photographs of specific points of interest in the area
Outdoors
Deadly larch disease hits Oban forest
Forestry and Land Scotland is preparing for felling work at Cologin Forest by Lerags, just south of Oban, in a bid to limit the impact of a deadly tree disease
Leisure
Hoolie returns with bang
After a haitus due to Covid, Mallaig’s well-loved book festival returned with an extra special line-up.
Leisure
Panto is back! Oh yes, it is!
And this year it’s a swashbuckling tale of daring deeds on the high seas
Leisure
Ullapool arts charity raises £10k in a week – but needs more help to secure its future
Update on An Talla Solais’ crowdfunding campaign success
Leisure
A bit of drama as Lorn Festival moves dates
The Lorn Drama Festival is open to any amateur group who wish to perform a one-act play.
Lochaber
Fort festive fund surpasses lights target of £8k
The lights will be switched on at 6pm on Friday, November 26, in Cameron Square
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.
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.
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.
Advertising
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.
Leisure
Lochaber Life – November 2019
This month’s Lochaber Life is packed full of great reads, including Top boxing show, Barbara’s baking to improve mental health and Haldenby Strongman Challenge.
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
Mull and Iona Life – Autumn 2018
The Autumn issue of Mull & Iona Life is packed full of great reads, including Mull Mod’s 80th anniversary, Ulva Ferry project and Discovering why Basking Sharks come to Scotland.
Nostalgia
Kilmartin Museum takes shape
Staff from the museum were treated to a site tour last week, courtesy of contractors TSL, giving them the opportunity to view the new basement-level, which includes a Learning Space.
Nostalgia
Red Wheel celebrates special rockfall signals
Unique on the UK’s railway network, the tripwire signalling has been in operation since 1882 to protect the railway against rockfalls down the steep slopes of Ben Cruachan.
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.
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.
Outdoors
One man and his dog complete epic 5,000-mile rewilding trek across Canada
Canadian PM and Scotland’s Deputy FM extol Perthshire musician’s ‘astonishing feat’
Outdoors
There’s no kidding about with these eagle-eyed competition winners
The Hazel and Agg families took part in Heart of Argyll Wildlife and Kilmartin Museum’s Treasure Hunt Trail competition, a self-guided tour which invited participants to take photographs of specific points of interest in the area
Outdoors
Deadly larch disease hits Oban forest
Forestry and Land Scotland is preparing for felling work at Cologin Forest by Lerags, just south of Oban, in a bid to limit the impact of a deadly tree disease
Leisure
Remote Rum and Skye bothies get new roofs
Despite considerable challenges, volunteers of the Mountain Bothies Association have successfully completed work re-roofing two of its most remote bothies – Dibidil in Rum and Ollisdal in Skye
Outdoors
First new beaver trial since Knapdale announced
Beaver numbers have doubled in Scotland in the last three years to around 1,000 animals.
Leisure
Nevis Hillwalking Club: Glen Spean
Nevis Hillwalking Club is leading a hike this Saturday November 13 up two munros in Glen Spean: Beinn a’ Chaorainn (1052m) and Beinn Teallach (915m)
Leisure
The day Amazonian tribes came to help protect Argyll’s rainforests
Lochgoilhead is not the first place you’d expect to meet tribespeople from the Amazonian rainforest, but there’s here for COP26, to help save Scotland’s own vanishing rainforest
Outdoors
Judge rules NatureScot issued beaver-killing licences incorrectly
In a written judgement, Lady Carmichael said all killings authorised by NatureScot had been unlawful and it must in future fully set out the reasons why it believed beavers should be killed.
Outdoors
Trust demands fund to save West Coast rainforest from rhododendron
Urgent action is required to stop Rhododendron ponticum wiping out Scotland’s rare rainforest, according to a new report published by Woodland Trust Scotland in partnership with Scottish Land and Estates.
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.
Leisure
West Coast Review – November 2019
This month’s West Coast Review is packed full of great reads, including Oban Winter Festival preview, Remember loved ones with Light up a Life and Winter What’s On.