A £1.8 million development at Craighouse on Jura, after its first year of operation, has been officially opened by Communities Minister, Stewart Maxwell. It will provide residential and nursing care for elderly folk on the island who can now stay…
The community at Tayvallich on Loch Sween has been awarded £196,570 by BIg Lottery Scotland’s Growing Community Assets fund. This is just over 70% of the agreed purchase price of £280,000. The impact on a small, remote community from the…
With the new ferry now onstream from Tayvallich on Loch Sween to Craighosue in Jura, this book may need to be updated. Released in June 2008, ;The Ferrymen’ is descrobed as ‘an art-house quality edition of ‘The ferrymen’, intentionally shot…
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 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…
It has taken four years work by Jura’s ‘Initiative at the Edge’ to get the new passenger service from Tayvallich into Craighouse that launched a week ago. The twelve-passenger Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) has already had a modest positive impact…
Helping to connect Argyll with itself, this week a new fast passenger service began between Tayvallich on Loch Sween on the west side of the Kintyre peninsula and Craighouse on the Isle of Jura. The vessel is a Rigid Inflatable…
Loganair is to reduce its service frequency on, among others, Argyll routes between Glasgow, Campbeltown and Tiree because of the sharp increase in the cost of aviation fuel. Passengers who have already booked will be offered flights on the same…
We recently drew attention to the serious reduction of the car ferry service to Jura as a result of flaws in the new slipway at Port Askaig. Islanders’ fears that this situation could endure for ten years now seems well…
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