Category: Leisure
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Arran’s poison mystery
By Colin Smeeton It is just over 112 years ago that a popular store and bakery in Lamlash was the subject of a murder investigation. This little-known story was reignited 20 years ago when relatives of the people involved in the investigation visited the Banner office with newspaper clippings and photographs taken at the time.…
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It’ll Never Work – but film proves it did
Go along to Tayvallich Village Hall on Friday December 8 at 7.30pm to see the showing of It’ll Never Work, the latest film from Carsaig Films and director Joe Osborn. It is the story of Hans Unkles’ boat conversion from diesel to solar power to create the UK’s first carbon zero solar fishing boat. Not…
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From our files – December 1 2023
TEN YEARS AGO Friday November 29 2013 Recipe books and home-made meals Youngsters from Craignish Primary School will be selling recipe books and homemade meals to raise funds for the Pelandaba Orphan Fund tomorrow (Saturday). The children have been busy in the kitchen this week with the fund’s founder Cindy Macdonald and have made a…
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First climate action film festival deemed a success
Campbeltown audiences responded well to the area’s first climate action film festival, with organisers hoping for a second installment next year
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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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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.
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Social group’s cinema trip
Member’s of Shopper-Aide’s Carradale-based social group have been out and about again, this time enjoying a visit to the pictures
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Glasgow Letter – week 48 2023
I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the Glasgow Skye Association Annual Gathering on the first weekend in December! Ever since I’ve been in Glasgow, and long before, the Glasgow Skye has felt like the beginning of the festive period. There is always a heated…