A rousing set from island favourites Peat & Diesel got the Skye Live festival weekend off to a flyer in Portree on Thursday night. The packed-out marquee looking over Portree…
A top Scottish band will tomorrow (Friday) release a protest song aimed at scuppering highly controversial plans to ban inshore fishing and all marine activities. Members of Skipinnish have labelled…
The young performers of LMPA (Lorayne McLucas Performing Arts) will perform the hit musical ‘Grease (School Edition)’ in Portree and Sleat this week. ‘Tell me more, tell me more!’ The…
Breakthrough Scottish singer-songwriter Katie Gregson-MacLeod has announced a tour of the Highlands and Islands with shows in Ullapool, Stornoway, Portree and her hometown of Inverness. Until recently a student and…
Breakish man Jimmy Clark, very likely to be Skye’s last surviving link with the D-Day landings, has died this week at the age of 99. Jimmy – who was raised…
An Acarsaid was a hive of activity on Monday as a 101st birthday party was held for resident Donald MacAskill. Affectionately known as Dolan, the former seaman from Lewis is…
The West Highland Free Press has been named as Newspaper of the Year at the annual Highlands and Islands Media Awards. In awarding the prize to the Free Press for…
Mobile phone giant EE’s slogan “It’s all about you” is ringing hollow with customers on Skye who have been left for weeks without a service.Portree and other areas in the…
Plockton’s popular pantomime is making a comeback next month after four years waiting in the wings. The much-anticipated panto is staged every two years by Plockton Amateur Dramatic Society but…
Kinlochshiel have been boosted ahead of the new shinty season following confirmation that attacker Oliver MacRae will rejoin the club from Glasgow Mid Argyll. MacRae, who was a key part…
