Category: Oban
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BID4Oban rallies support for flood action
As part of its action in response to October’s severe weather damage on businesses in the town, BID4Oban has proposed a series of meetings with Argyll and Bute Council and requested a progress update on the Oban Flood Plan survey carried out a number of years ago.
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Taste ye back for haggisfest
Taynuilt butcher Mark Grant enjoyed a double taste of success, winning both the judge’s best choice and the people’s vote and he will be back atthis year’s Winter Festival Haggisfest to defend his Golden Haggis and People’s Choice titles.
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Special 40th anniversary celebrations at former gunpowder factory set to go with a bang
Celebrations are being planned to mark a very special birthday for Melfort Village.
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Police called in after Western Isles council targeted in ‘criminal’ IT attack
A criminal cyber attack has caused significant disruption to IT systems at the Western Isles local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
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Tobermory lodge marks 100 years
Lodge Tobermory St’ Mary’s No. 1310 celebrated its centenary with a gathering at the Aros Hall
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Wait for Mull campus options and have your say, islanders are urged
People are being encouraging to be patient and to wait for information and transparency from Argyll and Bute Council to see what the options are for the new facility that will be much more than a school.
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Student three times over the drink-drive limit
Lewis Kirsop, 23, of Ceol Na Mara, Ardtun on Mull decided to drive home from drinking with friends in Bunessan instead of walking because it was raining, the court heard.
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Lorn Healthy Options weekly health tip: How is your cholesterol wrapped?
Its never too early to start caring about how much saturated fat we are consuming.
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Letters to the Editor – 9.11.23
A national disgrace? Having visited Oban for its own sake on many occasions, as well as for the sole purpose of catching a ferry, I have often noted the sorry state of the flags in the memorial fountain garden in Argyll Square. The Union flag, Saltire and flag of the Commonwealth of Nations sit together…
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Remembrance this weekend
A Royal Air Force flypast is expected this Friday at about 1.30pm. The two aircraft will fly past the Oban War Memorial on the Esplanade in tribute to the fallen of both World Wars and the Falklands Campaign