Joanne Howdle, the energetic curator of Auchindrain Township Museum is moving to Thurso. She is to be Curator of a new flagship museum there, Caithness Horizons. It is already all but finished, is currently being fitted out and will open…
Judge Nicol Hosie has ruled that Scotland’s gypsy travellers are a distinct ethnic group with rights as ethnic minorities protected by the 1976 Race Relations Act.
In coming to his decision he heard evidence from Dr Colin Clark from Strathclyde University,…
It has just been announced by the HMS Hood Association that Ted Briggs died on Saturday 4th October 2008. The Hampshireman was the last survivor of the HMS Hood when it was sunk by the Bismarck in the Battle of Denmark…
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From October 3rd to 5th The Furnace Inn, in Furnace on Argyll’s Loch Fyne, is running the first of what might be a series of innovative Seafood Weekends. Bound to be a popular event, booking ahead…
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders have carried the name of this place with great courage and great loss literally to the ends of the earth. They still do so. Their investment in the rest of us is recognised here by…
The First Minister, speaking yesterday at the huge new Glendoe dam being built above Loch Ness, announced that ‘Hydro is back’. A report published today by Nick Forrest Associates and produced by them for the Scottish Government, identifies all sites…
The Gypsy Arts Festival Scotland is being run from 25th - 30th August by the Scottish Storytelling Centre at their Edinburgh base, in tribute to Mid Argyll’s Duncan Wiliamson whom they describe as ‘the great musician, storyteller and Traveller tradition bearer’.…
The Harvest Caroline tied up at Furnace Pier this evening. She’s the first boat in since the days when Furnace Pier shipped out close to a million tons of crushed stone a year. Then one boat would be alongside, loading,…
Representatives from Argyll and Bute Council have presented to Furnace Community Council the final summary report on the feasibility study into the possible construction of a new pier at the village. The appraisal was commissioned by the Council with its…
This photograph, taken by Rebecca Martin from the Furnace team, shows Yorick Paine (centre) - from the Isle of Lismore, acting as recording engineer for Sheila Quillin (right) - from the Women@Work team, who is interviewing Alan Baird from Furnace.…
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