TORAFEST 2025: Dinosaurs and whisky gang thegither
The founder of the Torabhaig Distillery on Skye is a huge fan of dinosaurs. This helps to explain why there is an exhibition of fossilised bones on display to coincide…
Musical theatre award for Skye woman
A young performer from Skye won the ‘Young Scottish Musical Theatre Performer of the Year’ award at a ceremony held at the SECC in Glasgow last month. Eilidh MacPherson (pictured)…
DR CALUM MACLEOD: Scrap the two-child benefit cap
In the middle of Mental Health Awareness Week, Dr Calum MacLeod of the Mental Health Foundation stresses the importance of preventative spending and changes to the benefit system… This year’s…
Donnie Martin Stand fundraiser
Lochalsh and Skye Housing Association held a charity walk from Kilmarie to Sligachan last Saturday in memory of Donnie Martin and to raise money for the new Skye Camanachd stand…
RAISING A GLASS: Plans lodged for revival of 200-year-old Skye distillery
Ambitious plans have been unveiled to revive an historic whisky distillery on Skye, creating 26 new jobs, a visitor centre and staff accommodation. Séamus Ó Baoighill and Seumas Gorman hope…
PITCH PERFECT: Broadford sports campus nets £150,000
Plans to build new community sports facilities in south Skye have been boosted by an £150,000 award from Sportscotland. Sports clubs and community facilities across Scotland will benefit from £450,000…
SEAWEED HARVEST: New venture targets kelp boom on the Isle of Skye
A series of meetings were held around north Skye this week to canvas local opinion on possible locations for seaweed harvesting operations. The new business venture is being pursued by…
FITNESS FUNDRAISER: Isle of Skye teenager’s 5K-a-day for MS Society
Skye teenager Catherine Robertson has been clocking up the miles this month for a fitness challenge inspired by a cause very close to her heart. In an effort to raise…
NORRIE T MACDONALD: For the Hebrides, wind power can be our ‘Shetland’ moment
There is a notion around these parts, indeed any part of the Highlands and Islands (and wider Scotland?) destined to be ‘home’ to multi-billion pound investment by the renewables industry,…
SPEED CONCERNS: NC 500 traffic means road safety measures are ‘urgent’ at Shieldaig
A Wester Ross community is calling for urgent road safety improvements amid growing traffic volumes generated by the North Coast 500. Shieldaig Community Council say there have been several near…