Author: Kathie Griffiths
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Inclusive FAIR wants to hear your experiences
Set up in April this year, Oban charity F.A.I.R is on a mission to make sure children and young people aged up to 18 with additional support needs get equal access to activities and events in all aspects of community life.
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Search on for planet’s young protectors
The Rotary Club of Oban has put out a call for anyone who is passionate about the planet and wants to take part in its Rotary Young Environmentalist 2023 – 24 Competition
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Author gives lowdown on Highland landscapes
Highland landscapes will give the lie of the land at a special event on Luing this month celebrating Book Week Scotland. Seil author James Fenton will be at the Atlantic Islands Centre from 1.30pm to 3pm this Saturday, November 18 to talk about his new book Landscape Change in the Scottish Highlands: Imagination and Reality …
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All aboard for training
Weather permitting, Oban’s new Shannon-class lifeboat The Campbell-Watson is due to set sail from Dorset in December.
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Oban’s Soroba Road fire station is 20
To mark Oban Community Fire Station’s 20th birthday at its Soroba Road base, you are invited to a family open day this Saturday, November 18 from 1pm to 4pm.
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Get your trad votes in
With more than 110 artists and organisations in the running across 22 categories in the MG Alba event, public voting is open now until November 19.
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Launch! Film night swells RNLI funds
A film night at Seil Community Cinema raised more than £250 for the RNLI. After the screening of the archive film Launch! on Saturday November 4, there was a Q&A session with some of Oban lifeboat’s crew. The film coincided with Covid when it first came out and and never made it to Oban. Topics…
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Wreath-making in Gaelic
Mull and Iona Gaelic Partnership is running two Christmas wreath-making workshops at Tobermory Scout Hall on Saturday November 25.
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Hotel guest wanted to be arrested
Roofer Josh Watt was staying at a hotel in Oban with workmates when trouble erupted and a night porter was alerted.
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Driving ban for man twice the alcohol limit
Oban sheriff tells drink-driver he was not only wreckless but selfish too for putting innocent members of the public in danger