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.
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Islanders’ plea to Tesco over home food deliveries
Slots for Tesco home delivery orders have been marked ‘unavailable’ for weeks, warned Michael Varley who lives at Keils on Jura.
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Orwell book set for Turkish translation
Barnhill telling of George Orwell’s struggle to finish writing Nineteen Eighty-Four on the isle of Jura and now on to its second run, has caught the eye of the far-afield publisher.
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Sold-out Orwell book on second edition
The success of the novel all about George Orwell’s struggle to finish writing Nineteen Eighty-Four on the Isle of Jura, now means it is on to its second edition.