Author: Michael Russell

This year’s Skye Book Festival has been cancelled because Creative Scotland refused to allocate the £10,500 of required funding. The organising committee of Cleas, the charity that ran the book…

Kyle businesswoman Anisha Macdermid was celebrating this week after scooping two gongs at this year’s Highland Business Women Awards. Held in the Kingsmills Hotel in Inverness on 16th March, the…

Ken Gunn, co-owner of the multi award-winning Sonas Hotels group on Skye and the global seafarer who introduced luxury sailing to the world of Scottish hospitality, has died at the…

  The community of Gairloch community took to the beaches last week to demonstrate against Scottish Water’s plans to downgrade the current water treatment works to a system that will…

  MICHAEL RUSSELL The Scottish Environment Protection Agency have sparked outrage in Gairloch in Wester Ross by approving Scottish Water’s plans to discharge untreated sewage into local bathing waters.  …

MICHAEL RUSSELL The Ministry of Defence are to connect 12 businesses and 22 houses in the Applecross area to their own fibre optic broadband network. Two weeks ago, the Free…

  A bolt of lightning blasted a chunk out of the ruins of Castle Moil in Kyleakin this week. The damage to the ancient stronghold of the Clan MacKinnon was…

    MÌCHEAL RUSSELL Tha iasgairean às a’ Chaol is à Caol Acain a’ feitheamh ri fios bho Chomhairle na Gàidhealtachd air dè tha iad an dùil a dhèanamh mun…

  Skye Minister Rory MacLeod successfully completed the Edinburgh charity 10k race earlier this month. He was one of a team of 19 runners in ‘Team Special K’, (pictured) named…

Chaidh solais Nollaig Ulapuil a chur air an t-seachdain sa chaidh agus thàinig grunn luchd-turais bho thaobh a-muigh a’ bhaile airson am faicinn. Thuirt an neach a chuir an tachartas…