Focus: Tackling ‘myths’ to meet rural housing challenge
Keith MacKenzie examines the Lochalsh and Skye Housing Association’s plans to expand the area’s housing stock Housing, and the issues surrounding it – where it is, who owns it, who…
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Skye Muay Thai Club raises £1,500 through interclub event
The Skye Muay Thai Club hosted an interclub event at their premises in Portree on Saturday with competitors from Lewis, Inverness and England travelling to the island to take part.…
Mowi “holding communities to ransom” over relocation of fish farm sites says campaigner
A prominent salmon farm campaigner this week criticised industry giants Mowi for attempting to “hold communities to ransom” over two of its sites in Wester Ross and Lochalsh On Tuesday,…
Manchester honeymoon couple jilted by Aultbea Hotel
A couple visiting Wester Ross as part of a honeymoon cycle trip last month are seeking a refund of more than £100 from the Aultbea Hotel after they were left…
Editorial: Skye and the 21st century housing market
Skye and the north-west Highlands not only have the worst levels of mortgage arrears in Scotland. We have the worst levels by a country mile. Figures assembled by the debt…
Skye and Lochalsh Citizens Advice Bureau manager hits out at cuts to frontline services
The manager of Skye and Lochalsh Citizens Advice Bureau has hit out at the axing of crucial funding that will see the loss of a highly-skilled frontline worker. Morag Hannah’s…
‘Nae Pasaran’:When Scottish workers stood against a fascist dictator
There can’t be many pensioners from East Kilbride who are Commanders of the Republic of Chile. It is a safe bet that there are only three: Robert Somerville, John Keenan,…