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Details of Radio 4 short stories from Jura Writers’ Retreats

Tuesday, 4th November, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News, Media | None

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…

Stories from Jura Writers’ Retreat on Radio 4 all week

Sunday, 2nd November, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, News, People | One

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…

For a great look at the Paps of Jura under new snow…

Wednesday, 29th October, 2008 | Community News, Environment | None

… 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…

Renewed anger at failure of new £13m Islay ferry terminal

Thursday, 16th October, 2008 | Business, Local Government, News, Transport | None

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…

Setting Up A Development Trust in Scotland

Wednesday, 8th October, 2008 | Development Trusts | One

1. INTRODUCTION
View from Rest and Be Thankful in Argyll (photo Richard Heavey, Wikipedia Commons)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…

Crofting tales - lambs taken by sea eagles, new powers, new crofts, fewer holiday homes, a retreat from the hills and a bit of bull

Thursday, 2nd October, 2008 | Community News, Environment, Farming, Tourism, Wildlife and Biodiversity | None

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…

Check out Jura’s Digital Archive

Sunday, 28th September, 2008 | Community News, Genealogy, Hebridean islands, History | None

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…

Jura’s old folk now stay put while Mull’s languish in condemned premises

Friday, 26th September, 2008 | Business, Healthcare, Hebridean islands, News | None

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…

Jura to create six new crofts - the first since the Crofting Reform Act

Monday, 22nd September, 2008 | Business, Community News, Farming | None

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…

Gaelic digital television channel, BBC Alba, launches today but said to be unable to broadcast live

Friday, 19th September, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Business, Media, News | None

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…