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Tailormade Productions’ location filming of Jane Rodgers novel boosts Mull economy

Thursday, 4th December, 2008 | Community News, Media | None

London-based Tailormade Productions, whose background is largely in video and short films, are making their first feature film based on Janet Rodgers’ novel, Island. Called The Sea Change, the plot is described as: ‘Part myth, part mystery… a tale of…

Crofters and SNH agree project to investigate causes of lamb mortality

Wednesday, 3rd December, 2008 | Community News, Farming, Tourism, Wildlife & Biodiversity | None

The issue of lamb mortality in crofting areas flown by the Sea Eagles re-introduced to Scotland has been a contentious one.

Now a meeting between Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), crofters in Skye and Gairloch, the Scottish Crofting Foundation, the Scottish Government and…

Disruption to Mull’s Fionnphort-Iona ferry until further notice

Wednesday, 3rd December, 2008 | Community News, Transport | None

For technical reasons, the ferry from Fionnphort on Mull to the Isle of Iona will be running a restricted service until further notice.

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Launch of Jazz album at An Tobar, Tobermory, with the David Milligan Trio

Monday, 1st December, 2008 | Events | None

[ December 16, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]

December 16, 2008
7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

At 7.30pm on 16th December, Tobermory’s An Tobar Arts Centre hosts the launch of its third CD, Shops, commissioned from local and Scottish contemporary jazz musicians. Playing live at the event will be The David Milligan…

There is a Tide - Clare McNiven sculpture Exhibition at An Tobar, Tobermory

Monday, 1st December, 2008 | Events | None

[ November 18, 2008 to December 31, 2008. ]

November 18, 2008 to December 31, 2008

This stunning exhibition of life-sized figures made from rope and string recovered from the beaches of Argyll, runs from 18th November to 31st December 2008.

Stunning Clare McNiven exhibiton - and jazz album launch with David Milligan Trio in Tobermory

Monday, 1st December, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News | None

There is a Tide - an exhibition by Clare McNiven at An Tobar, runs until 31st December 2008. It is a series of life-sized sculptures made from rope and nylon string retrieved across the beaches of Argyll.

Clare McNiven is a Argyll-based painter…

Night of Gaelic song and dance at Tobermory

Thursday, 27th November, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News, Events | None

[ December 6, 2008; 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm. ]

December 6, 2008
7:30 pm to 10:30 pm

The other day For Argyll was reporting on the dolphins dancing in Tobermory. On 6th December 2008 at 7.30pm in The Western Isles Hotel in the town, it will the residents themselves dancing rather than watching…

Nick Davies, Tobermory wildlife photographer dashes to kayak to catch dolphins at play

Wednesday, 26th November, 2008 | Community News, Wildlife & Biodiversity | None

Nick Davies, wildlife photographer and videographer who lives overlooking Tobermory Bay on the’s Isle of Mull, got Argyll’s sealife scoop of the year. He saw dolphins start to play in the bar, ran to his kayak and paddled madly towards them…

Norfolk to take a wing-tip from Mull and introduce sea eagles

Saturday, 22nd November, 2008 | Community News, Environment, Wildlife & Biodiversity | None

The sea eagle breeding programme on Argyll’s Isle of Mull has been hugely successful - apart from the poisonings that continue to be a feature of some of Scotland’s estates. A young sea eagle which had hatched on Mull was found…

Tobermory an X-factor contender as Ashley and Cheryl Cole bid for house

Tuesday, 18th November, 2008 | Community News, People, Tourism | None

Tobermory seems destined for celebrity. It has just seen the dwindling of the long and massive tourist boost with the popularity of the BBC children’s TV series, Balamory based on the brightly coloured port on the Isle of Mull. Now…