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Council agrees month’s trial of more scholar flights to Coll and Colonsay

Thursday, 27th November, 2008 | Community News, Transport | None

This week Argyll and Bute Council officials have agreed a four week trial period in which the number of ’scholar’ flights will increase. These flights carry pupils from the islands of Coll and Colonsay to and from school in Oban..

At the moment,…

Argyll’s Isle of Coll takes fundraising to the Renfrew ferry

Friday, 21st November, 2008 | Community News, Funding | None

Argyl’s islands may be remote but let no one say that islanders are not enterprising. Argyll’s Isle of Coll is working hard to raise the funds to build a new Community Centre - an Cridhe (the heart). And all Colleachs are…

Coll-based charity, Project Trust, gets higher than ever application rate for gap year work

Friday, 31st October, 2008 | Community News | None

The charity, Project Trust, based on Argyll’s Isle of Coll, has had higher than ever numbers of applications this year from school leavers for the life-changing experience of a gap year working abroad with the Trust.

Already the office in Coll…

Paolo Nutini impromptu gig for Tiree Wave Classic

Wednesday, 15th October, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News, Sport | None

Today’s action on Tiree ended up with a major surprise of the best possible kind. Paolo Nutini happened to be on the island and offered to do a few numbers at An Talla during Campbeltown’s Breaks Surf Shop’s party.

Results and…

Argyll’s First Tiree to Coll Adventure Race

Wednesday, 15th October, 2008 | Community News, Sport | None

Right in the middle of Tiree Wave Classic week is the Adventure Race from Tiree to Coll - run yesterday (14th October). It’s a sort of triathlon, starting with a run, then a windsurf over to Coll and finally a…

New Community Centre for Coll to get council funding

Tuesday, 14th October, 2008 | Community News, Funding, Hebridean islands, Local Government | None

Good - and well deserved - news for the energetic Isle of Coll. Argyll and Bute Council looks set to contribute funds to the Community Centre needed on the island.

Last week’s meeting of the Oban, Lorn and the Isles Area…

Adventure Race Tiree to Coll - alongside Tiree Wave Classic

Saturday, 11th October, 2008 | Community News, Events, Sport, Tourism | Comments Off

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Wakeboarding on the Tiree Wave Classic is an Adventure Race on Tuesday 14th October from Tiree to Coll. There are three stages to this - running, windsurfing and mountain biking. You can enter as an individual or as…

CalMac fares to rise for Summer 2009

Friday, 10th October, 2008 | Community News, Hebridean islands, Tourism, Transport | None

West coast ferry operator, Caledonia MacBrayne (CalMac) have announced a 3.8%  rise in ferry fares to take effect from the start of the 2009 Summer Timetable on 27th March. It will include the route from Dunoon in Argyll to Greenock…

Isle of Coll publishes RET fares for CalMac ferry

Friday, 19th September, 2008 | Community News, Transport | None

The Argyll Isle of Coll is included in the Scottish Government’s thirty month Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) pilot scheme focused largely on the Wester Isles. RET subsidises ferry fares to islands in the scheme, reducing costs to the equivalent of…

Coll’s recent Half Marathon earns for new community centre

Sunday, 14th September, 2008 | Community News, Funding | None

The recent Half Marathon run on Coll has raised £5,000 towards the island’s fundraising efforts for the building of a new community centre. They hope to start building in 2010, raising an estimated £2.5 million from their own activities and…