Charity football match to aid Skye hospital
It has been 19 years since the Broadford Belles took on Sleat and Strath in a charity match. This coming Saturday an updated version of the encounter takes place in…
It has been 19 years since the Broadford Belles took on Sleat and Strath in a charity match. This coming Saturday an updated version of the encounter takes place in…
A mysterious piece of roadside graffiti which welcomed travellers to Ullapool for decades has been replaced after vanishing recently. “Del ♥ Kelly” on rocks beside the A835 has provided an…
There was a marine weekend at Ullapool last week as the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Living Seas Project teamed up with the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network to host some fishing…
During a visit to Raasay today (Thursday) Islands Minister Humza Yousaf announced the creation of a new Scottish Government Islands Strategic Group. The group will be made up of representatives…
The BBC’s Beechgrove Garden team of Jim McColl, Carole Baxter, George Anderson and Chris Beardshaw recently spent three days filming in and around Gairloch. They began at Inverewe Garden and…
The Scottish Crofting Federation has welcomed the intervention of rural affairs secretary Fergus Ewing in a letter which “reprimands” Crofting Commission convener Colin Kennedy. SCF chair Fiona Mandeville said she…
A Bronze Age arrowhead found on a croft in north Skye has become the theme of a new range of neck scarves. Made of a dark stone called chert, the…
Ullapool and District Pipe Band were crowned winners of their category at last weekend’s World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. In their 12-band section, Ullapool and District beat off stiff…
BY LISA FALCONER A new petition calling for improved infrastructure on Skye to meet rocketing tourist numbers has attracted hundreds of signatures. The ‘Bring Isle of Skye into 21st…
A launch party was held in Tarbert, Harris, recently to mark the publication of a new book from Acair. Novelist Fiona Rintoul, who lives on Harris, was there… “Rhenigidale is…