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Month: February 2024

IN PICTURES: Theatrical feast as Plockton hosts community drama festival

Keith MacKenzie29 February 2024

Plockton audiences were treated to a feast of theatrical entertainment at the weekend when the village hosted the South West Ross Scottish Community Drama One-Act Festival 2024.   The event, which…

LANGUAGE OPPORTUNITY: Local schools celebrate Seachdain na Gàidhlig

Keith MacKenzie29 February 20241 March 2024

Seachdain na Gàidhlig (World Gaelic Week) took place from the 19th – 25th of February, hosting activities and challenges to promote and celebrate the Gaelic language, with the theme for…

WHFP EDITORIAL 1.9.23: Community-centred Gaelic projects have much to offer

Keith MacKenzie29 February 2024

It was once remarked that in Harris there would be as much sense in starting a society for breathing as there would in one for Gaelic, given the language’s status…

TOBAR AN DUALCHAIS: Saving traditions in our changing communities

Keith MacKenzie23 February 202423 February 2024

Flòraidh Forrest, project director of Tobar an Dualchais, on community-based Gaelic traditions, and the potential to support them through heritage legislation…. “Tha mise a-nochd a’ dol air Chullaig, a dh’ùrachadh…

New discount card to benefit young carers

WHFP Admin20 February 2024

Businesses in Skye and Lochalsh are being invited to sign up to a discount card scheme which will help improve the lives of young carers while also encouraging folk to…

TOBAR AN DUALCHAIS: Eriskay placename folklore: Gleann a’ Mhill Mhòir

Keith MacKenzie12 February 2024

Liam Alastair Crouse looks further into island placenames as discovered from recordings on the Tobar an Dualchais website….. If readers were bemused by the lack of consensus in my previous…

IN SERVICE: Huge turnout for new church opening in Portree

Keith MacKenzie9 February 2024

Hundreds turned up in person and hundreds more tuned in online to witness the grand opening of a new Free Church building in Portree last Saturday (3rd February). The result…

HELPING HAND: Free Press hands over £500 to An Acarsaid during big birthday celebration

Keith MacKenzie9 February 20249 February 2024

An Acarsaid in Broadford was a hive of activity on Tuesday when a 102nd birthday party was held for remarkable resident Donald ‘Dolan’ MacAskill. The former seaman from Lewis was…

GREAT BRITISH MENU: Isle of Skye chef to represent Scotland on TV

Keith MacKenzie9 February 20249 February 2024

Next Tuesday (13th February), Skye chef Calum Montgomery will return to screens for his second TV appearance on the BBC’s Great British Menu. Calum, of the award-winning Edinbane Lodge, will…

WE NEED HOMES AND PEOPLE: Without housing we will lose our heart

Keith MacKenzie8 February 20248 February 2024

DANIEL CULLEN documents his own experiences of housing issues in Skye, and reflects on a series of conversations with local young people which would inspire a stage play…. In my…

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