Category: News
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Lochaber camp sites named as holiday hotspots
The annual Campsites.co.uk Camping and Glamping awards highlight the best camping, glamping, and touring sites across the UK.
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Christmas comes early for Gaelic short film competition
In total, 162 films have been entered across the 2023 FilmG short film competitions, resulting in the highest number of submissions since the competition began in 2008.
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School food award for Jayne
Jayne Jones has played a prominent role in a pilot programme at Oban Airport delivering school meals to remote schools by drone, the work went towards achievements that earned her lifetime excellence recognition at this month’s school meals awards in Edinburgh.
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Works to A861 between Ardgour and Treslaig completed
Cllr Ken Gowans commended everyone involved for all their hard work and their efforts to ensure all the work could be completed before the Christmas holiday period started.
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Double bill with Lesley Riddoch
Why are Danes are the world’s happiest people? Find out for yourself at Oban Phoenix Cinema on February 1 at a screening of Lesley Riddoch’s new film Denmark the State of Happiness, made with BBC and Channel 4 filmmaker Charlie Stuart.
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Lochaber tea company set to cut carbon and create jobs
The company has seen steady growth since it was established in 2020 as an online retailer offering speciality teas including a range hand blended in Mallaig. It now supplies shops, cafés and hotels in the Highlands and beyond.
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Completion of overnight A828 works postponed
Due to a poor weather forecast the dates for ongoing roadworks on the A828 near Appin will now be delayed until after the festive period.
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Public views sought for the next Clyde and Hebrides contract
The public consultation on the next generation of contract to operate the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Service is underway
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Tributes paid to late Luing fisherman
A fisherman who died after falling overboard from his boat in the Firth of Lorn has been named locally as Eoghann MacLachlan from the Isle of Luing.
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Council calls for fair treatment for Argyll flooding
Argyll and Bute’s communities deserve the same level of national government support as other areas, following the October storms which caused serious disruption, the council’s leader tells the Deputy First Minister