For Argyll publicised these readings on Radio 4 each day this week: 3rd - 7th November. Here are the details of the stories to be read each day - between 15.30 and 15.45. Remember that if you go to the…
Bookmark your diary for 3.30pm every day this week from Monday (3rd November) onwards. Radio 4 is broadcasting a series of short stories written by writers awarded a place on the Jura Malt Whisky Writers’ Retreat programme. The writers include…
… take a trip to the Islay website’s piece, Early Start of Winter on Islay. The photo as taken on Tuesday. The contrast of the warm autumn colours on the lower slopes below the white tops draws you in and…
We have reported on several earlier occasions on the failed project building a new harbour and ferry terminal at Port Askaig on Islay. We have described the anger felt by residents of nearby island, Jura, at having a less capable…
1. INTRODUCTION
Development Trusts are touted as the great White Hope for community mobilisation and economic sustainability and invigoration in the UK, particularly Scotland.
Over the last 9 months I have been chairing a steering group tasked by the community it represents to…
The White-tailed sea eagle has been successfully re-introduced into Scotland after being driven to extinction by illegal killing in the early part of the 19th century. Argyll’s Isle of Mull has scored major breeding successes with these magnificent birds, seeing…
Compiled progressively by The Feolin Study Centre on Argyll’s Isle of Jura, the Jura Digital Archive, available online, currently carries material on Jura’s Gaelic Landscape, the Jura Parish Register and the Kileamadil Cemetary Graves Inventory. If you have an interest…
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 Crofting Commission has approved a proposal from Ardfin Estates on Jura for the creation of six new crofts each of 2.7 hectares. These will be the first created on the island since the Crofting Reform Act of 2007.
The last…
The new Gaelic television channel, BBC Alba - based in the purpose-built Fas studio complex at the Gaelic College, Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye - will start satellite transmission today. Its first broadcasts will be documentaries. One of these will…
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