The first of August saw the Isle of Jura host a Civic Reception in celebration of its first ferry direct to mainland Argyll for thirty six years. The Herald has noted that a MacBrayne’s ferry called at Craighouse Pier for the last time in 1972. For Argyll has carried several news items on the successful [...]
The UK Film Council has awarded more than £50,000 to three Scottish cinemas out of £475,000 to 56 cinemas across the UK. Scotland’s innovative Screen Machine is to receive £28,965 to buy a new digital projection system. The Screen Machine is itself a magical object - a truck travelling the Highlands and Islands and unfolding [...]
The growing success of the new fast passenger ferry from Craighouse on Jura to Tayvallich on Argyll’s Kintyre mainland at Loch Sween may just have another benefit to offer. The village shop at Tayvallich has been for sale with no takers for a year. The owner is unable to carry on through another winter and [...]
The Isle of Jura has three real successes to toast. The award of funding to the project to develop the Antlers building as a tearoom, interpretation and craft centre is one. The second is the successful launch of the fast passenger ferry from Tayvallich on the Kintyre peninsula over to Craighouse. THe third is the [...]
The Leader Fund, newly reopened, has been considering its first series of applications. several related to Village Hall developments. Community campaigns to upgrade their Village Halls should obviously complete their applications as soon as possible.
