Author: Kathie Griffiths
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Tree-mendous festival at St Conan’s
More than 4,000 visitors went along last year to admire the trees of all shapes, sizes and great designs from groups, families, schools and organisations – organisers are hoping for even bigger numbers at the 2023 festival
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Make time to have a say on Oban Bay’s future
Christmas and New Year are well-known to be the busiest times of the year for a lot of people and although not everyone will be dashing about posting cards, wrapping and delivering gifts and partaking in festive jollities – Argyll and Bute Council’s timing of the consultation is not as generous as it could be.
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Boy oh boy! Oban sure is bonny
Introducing Oban to Oban, the Yorkshire tot named after his family’s favourite holiday spot
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Ready for Taynuilt Inn re-build
Argyll and Bute planners gave permission in July this year for the hotel to be brought back to life.
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Funding boost for Oban’s Royal Mòd
The 2024 Mòd will take place from October 11 to 19 in the town – the location of the first ever event in 1892.
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Oban Baptist Church demolition gets green light
Pastor Stuart Lawson has thanked planners and supporters and told those who were concerned or who objected to the project that they will always be welcome should they ever want to visit.
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Data from the deep
A successful mission between the Scottish Association for Marine Science, AutoNaut and Sonardyne used a robotic vehicle named Jura to retrieve data from sensors located 1,800m down in the Rockall Trough.
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Ganavan is top quality bathing spot
Swimming water at Ganavan is rated excellent. The bathing water near Oban is one of 84 per cent of Scottish swim spots achieving high standards according to The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) working with regulated operators and stakeholders across the country to bring about improvements. Sampling and analysis carried out by Scotland’s environment regulator…
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Scotland’s butterflies increase by 35 per cent, but some species at risk
Small copper butterflies declines have been recorded in other parts of the UK in previous years, but this is the first time a significant decline has been observed in Scotland.
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Call to enlist gamekeeping students to save curlew
Populations of curlew have crashed by 61 per cent in Scotland since the 1990s, escalating extinction fears, with an estimated 15 per cent of the world’s population breeding on uplands and shores.