Category: Oban
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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.
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Campaigners blast festive holiday timing of Oban Harbour consultation
Oban Community Harbour Development Association (OCHDA) is demanding to know why, almost two years after deciding to establish a Municipal Harbour Authority for Oban, Argyll and Bute Council has chosen to formally consult the public at a time when most people will be busy with festivities.
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Good luck for Thistle Awards finals
Melfort House owner Matthew Anderson has brought home a trophy from this year’s Highlands and Island Thistle Awards. His country house bed & breakfast establishment on the shores of Loch Melfort at Kimelford was regional winner in the B&Bs and guest house category that celebrates businesses going the extra mile to provide a personal memorable…
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Setting geotourism in stone
Expressing an Island workshop of Luing could inspire a geotourism trail thanks to starter funding from Culture, Heritage & Arts network across Argyll and the island CHARTS
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Lights on as Oban counts down to Christmas
About 5,000 people turned out to see Santa come to Oban for the reindeer parade and festive lights switch-on