Kyleakin embraces metalcore festival
BY DANIEL CULLEN A new alternative music festival on Skye has been described as a “roaring success” after drawing crowds from across Scotland, the UK and beyond to Kyleakin Hall…
Month: May 2026
Art bus in Portree and Plockton
BY KIRSTY WATT ‘Art in a Bus’, Scotland’s travelling art gallery, brought the ‘wow’ factor to youngsters in Skye and Lochalsh last week with their technology-inspired exhibition on wheels. The…
All change in the Highlands and Islands
BY JACKIE MACKENZIE The political landscape in the Highlands and Islands has seen a major shift after Thursday’s Holyrood elections with three long-standing SNP MSPs ousted by the Lib Dems…
Spectacular setting delivers another Skye Live cracker
BY DANIEL CULLEN The Free Press were among the festival-goers who descended on the Lump in Portree in their thousands last weekend as Skye Live returned for another hugely successful…
Teacher and pupil share memories of 1998 project
Mrs Jessie Donaldson and Louise Lankston reminisce about a Carbost Primary School project that began in 1998, when the former was head teacher and the latter one of her pupils.…
‘Glasnabury’ tunes up for charity
BY KIRSTY WATT The sound of live music and community laughter filled the small, south Skye village of Glasnakille last Sunday at the first ever Glasnabury charity music festival. The…
Dunvegan launch for new outreach hub
BY KIRSTY WATT A new community outreach hub on Skye has been hailed a success after health, wellbeing and social care services united for the first time in Dunvegan last…
Housing and public services top hustings night in Portree
By Daniel Cullen A hustings event held in Portree ahead of the local elections on Thursday 7th May drew a crowd of around 40 people at the Skye Gathering Hall…