West Coast Tory MSPs urge Prime Minister to go over ‘partygate’
The West Coast’s two Tory MSPs want the Prime Minister to resign after he attended a BYOB ‘work’ party at No 10 during lockdown.
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Council hears lockdown easing and tourism blamed for sharp rise in Highland fires
SFRS Highland area commander Derek Wilson said deliberate fires throughout the pandemic are linked to increased tourism, where there has been more wild camping, dirty camping and campfires.
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Wassup? Bud beaten by Argyll’s ‘wonderful community spirit’
A council project distributing food bank parcels to the needy in Argyll during lockdown has won a national award, beating brewing giant Budweiser
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A Something For the Weekend Podcast 20th August 2021
A new project is being launched by Oban Men’s Shed to restore a little piece of maritime history.
Kathie has been chatting to the project’s John McAllister and Colin Turtle to find out how they plan, with the help of willing hands and council funding, to restore clinker boat the Mary Jane and get her back on the water.
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A Something For the Weekend Podcast 13th August 2021
This week’s podcast takes you on a Calmac ferry then a Basking Shark Scotland rib boat as Kathie and fellow open water swimmers Jeanette Sheldrick and Catriona Petit chat with Lorna Evans, one of the founders of a new charity called Seaful whose mission is to encourage more people to get out on the ocean, fall in love with it and keep it safe.
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A Something For the Weekend Podcast 6th August 2021
Kathie has been down to the Bridge over the Atlantic to catch up with Seil crofter DJ MacDougall who is picking up his pipes to raise £1,000 for charity.
On August 28 he will be marching five miles, while playing the pipes, all the way from the Oban side of the Bridge Over The Atlantic down to the seafront at Ellenabeich.
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A Something For the Weekend Podcast 30th July 2021
This week after months of being starved of entertainment and live music, Kathie could hardly contain herself when The Camans frontman Craig McIntyre got in touch to invite her along to the band’s first official post-lockdown gig at Inverrary George Hotel.
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A Something For the Weekend Podcast 23rd July 2021
This week the team totally blindside Ellis by sending him a fake running order which includes a nightmare of an intro full of made up Scottish words for him to fall over.
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A Something For the Weekend Podcast 16th July 2021
Ellis is running late for this week’s podcast while Oban ‘Gym Guy’ Innes Hughes is just running. South Yorkshire’s Jim Morton is taking things at a slightly easier pace and takes a break from his round-the-coast odyssey to tell us all about it and songstress Dot Allison provides this week’s
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A Something For the Weekend Podcast 9th July 2021
Up first is David Glennie of the Scottish Slate Islands Heritage Trust about the reopening of the Tardis-like museum at Ellenabeich and why it needs both visitors and volunteers. Plus in this week’s music segment, there’s some relaxing tinkling of the ivories by talented local pianist Marek Kochmanski who usually does his stuff at the Bridge Cafe on every last Saturday in the month. There’s also an exclusive interview with the lost walkers on Jura who recount their epic rescue which saw them set off on a Thursday but not make it back until Saturday night!