Holiday West Highland Summer 2021
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Tag: Jura
Leisure
Did the world’s oldest man live to 180 on the Isle of Jura?
An attempt to solve a 400 year-old mystery.
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Lost hikers rescued by lifeboat fundraisers
Brothers Stephen and Ronnie Bert were like ‘the walking dead’ by the time they were rescued from remotest Jura by RNLI fundraisers Phil Hamerton and Alison Rennie who just happened to be passing on their small yacht
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Jura respite flat survives savings cull
The decision to keep it eventually came down to a casting vote at a virtual meeting of the integration joint board (IJB) of Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)
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Breathing space for threatened Jura respite flat
Jura Care Centre Group is hopeful a solution will be found to keep open the island’s respite flat for convalescing residents and carers needing a break
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Jura volunteers’ anger over closure of respite flat
Members of Jura Care Centre Group found out only by chance last month that Argyll and Bute’s Health & Social Care Partnership had decided on Christmas Eve 2020 to stop funding the flat.
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Island bakers provide ideal recipe for fundraising
Hundreds answered the call for cakes from Islay-based SCAA volunteer Katherine Urquhart and her friend Gemma MacLean when they came up with the idea of a Drive-Through Cake Sale to support both SCAA and the RNLI.
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Underwater turbines to power island distilleries
A series of underwater turbines will go deep underwater in the Sound of Islay between the isles of Islay and Jura,
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Young islanders to have their say
New network set up to give platform for young people across Scotland’s islands.
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Concern over fly-tipping
The two elected representatives said there is growing concern about the problem while Covid restrictions are in place.