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Tobermory to get fresher drinking water and a more secure supply in new Scottish Water project

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

Scottish Water have announced a £50,000 project for Loch Peallach, which is used as a reservoir and is connected via an inlet pipe to the Tobermory Water Treatment Works serving the villages and surrounding areas.

This will replace the current intake pipe…

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.

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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…

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…

Two Mull women find unrecorded early Christian chapel above Tobermory

Saturday, 8th November, 2008 | History, News, People | None

Hylda Marsh and Bev Langdon, two amateur historical detectives from Mull, have tracked down ruins at Baliscate above Tobermory which turn out to be an unrecorded early Christian chapel.

Inspired by an open evening in April 2007 run by Scotland’s Rural…

Seaplane success brings new wings and new routes

Sunday, 26th October, 2008 | Business, Community News, Tourism, Transport | None

Loch Lomond Seaplanes, now recognised as Scotland’d third most popular attraction for visitors, has had such sustained success it is looking at growth. It has two things in its sights - another plane and new routes.

The company already flies scheduled…

Message to Tobermory - ‘Boil, baby, boil’

Wednesday, 8th October, 2008 | Community News | None

Both Scottish Watwer and NHS Highand want to emphasise to residents of Tobermory whose water supply was interrupted by the recent burst water preparing food and for cleaning your teeth until further notice. Anybody who’s not sure whether this applies…