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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 and 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…

URGENT NOTICE: Tobermory properties with restored water supply should now boil water before both food preparation and drinking

Tuesday, 7th October, 2008 | Community News, Healthcare | None

Scottish Water and NHS Highland are advising Tobermory folk to boil water before using it for food preparation and drinking. This applies only to people living in the 360 properties in Tobermory which lost their water supply with the burst…

Burst water main in Tobermory - update from Scottish Water

Tuesday, 7th October, 2008 | Business, Community News | None

Tobermory on the Isle of Mull has had a burst water main disrupt its water supply. Scottish Water engineers are currently on the job and are working as fast as possible to loate and repair the burst.

The interruption to the…

Lighten up at Easdale or Tobermory this weekend

Wednesday, 24th September, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News, Hebridean islands, Sport | None

This weekend offers two opportunities to take a breather from the doom and gloom around with banks collapsing around us and our major utilities sold into foreign control. Forget it all - for a while anyway - by skimming stones…