Assurances sought over hospital’s future
NHS Highland have arranged another meeting to decide on the prospect of closing Portree Hospital and building a 10-bed facility at Home Farm nursing home. Following a meeting of the…
Month: April 2021
Glenelg ferry back in service in May
• Bittersweet return after death of founding director The Kylerhea to Glenelg ferry will go back into service on 1st May, a year and a half after it last sailed.…
Scottish radio’s voice of sport, with his roots in Skye
O B I T U A R Y To anyone growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, the accolade ‘Voice of Football’ was attached to one or two key individuals…
Green energy: the road to an emissions free island
By Kirsty Watt It’s a cool, spring morning. A damp mist swirls over the hills, dancing around hundreds of whirring blades like a strip the willow. A wind farm. Elegant…
Young people demand radical action on housing
• Fears of being priced out of moving home to work and live More than 1,700 young people across the Highlands and Islands have signed an open letter seeking action…
Hebridean Easter traditions: A’ Ghrian a’ Dannsa – will you watch the sun dance?
Tobar an Dualchais director Flòraidh Forrest examines the Easter traditions of the Hebrides Early one Easter Sunday when I was about eight, my father came into the bedroom I shared…