New archaeological find on St Kilda
A freak moment where the angle at which the sun struck a slab of stone on the ground has led to archaeologists discovering a cross-inscribed slab on St Kilda. Strat Halliday, one of a party of...
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Sew bags to save St Kilda’s puffin chicks
Forget reindeer. Puffin chicks need your help. Every year, dozens of pufflings become disorientated by lights from the buildings on the isolated island of Hirta in the St Kilda island group. As a...
View ArticleIf your ancestry is Scots, VisitScotland and the Forestry Commission want old...
When you think about ‘the family tree’ there’s is after all a logic in Forestry Commission Scotland teaming up with VisitScotland in this initiative. During Homecoming Scotland 2009 the agencies want...
View ArticleDubai World asset sale includes Inchcape Shipping Services of Campbeltown origin
Istithmarh, the investment wing of £14BN debt-laden Dubai World, the world’s largest independent marine management company and owner of the QE2 – now also likely to be sold, has already begun the sale...
View ArticleBBC ALBA on Benbecula: rocket range and forced mass emigration
People have this romantic notion of the Uists, the southern part of the chain of islands forming the Outer Hebrides, swept by The Minch on its easter shores and by the open Atlantic on the west.Yes,...
View Article13 days to apply for St Kilda archaeologist post
If you are as fit as a Para, have a degree in archaeology or – oddly, any ‘related subject’ (forensic science?), a good communicator, an effective team leader of volunteers and contractors and fancy a...
View ArticleArgyll Bird Club Spring Meeting
The Argyll Bird Club’s Spring Meeting is at Seil Island Community Hall on Saturday 6th March from 9.30am-6.00pm.The schedule looks full and exciting.0930: Doors open; coffee and tea0950-1000: Welcome...
View ArticleToday: commemorative service from St Kilda to mark 80th anniversary of...
Today, Sunday 29th August 2010 at 3.00pm, Radio na Gaidheal is broadcasting a service recorded on St Kilda to mark the 80th anniversary of the voluntary evacuation of its population from the island.The...
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Watch Argyll’s west coast beaches for the St Kilda Mailboat
Some mailboats are bigger than others. Some need a serious infrastructure to enable them to deliver. Others can land anywhere.People visiting Scotland’s beaches are being urged by the National Trust...
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Three in a row for Kintyre Express – what next?
On Friday the full Kintyre Express fleet of three 11 metre Redbay Stormforce fast passenger ferries made their familiar crossing of the North Channel to come in to the pier below Cushendall Sailing and...
View ArticleMount Stuart Trust Visual Arts 2012 programme: free October events
The Mount Stuart Trust has, for some time, run an innovative and far from conservative annual visual arts programme, offering a variety of surprising experiences free to all comers.The creatives...
View ArticleProgramme for first week November shows BBC ALBA’s diversity
BBC ALBA continues to show imagination and a wide ranging curiosity in its diverse programming.Highlights from the schedule for the week from 3rd to 9th November 2012 have just been released and are an...
View ArticleBBC ALBA – St Kilda to Cameroon
The next ten days or so on BBC ALBA takes us from St Kilda to Cameroon.The St Kilda gig is tonight [2nd December], with a drama documentary on life on the far St Kilda archipelago – Am Posadh Hiortach...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland hosts successful Oban conference
Community Land Scotland, which represents Scotland’s community landowners, hosted a conference today (Friday 7th December) in Oban’s Corran Halls to promote community ownership of land in Argyll.The...
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BBC ALBA follows ‘A Hooker’s Journey’
Don’t get over excited. BBC ALBA is not chasing the red lights – or not unless it’s the port hand light of the legendary Galway Hooker, the traditional fishing boat used in Galway Bay in the west coast...
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Call for volunteers as HWDT launches vital new research expeditions on...
The United Kingdom’s only known resident population of killer whales is at risk of imminent extinction. Tobermory-based Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust [HWDT] has this week launched a new series of...
View ArticleMoD still to give ‘definitive answer’ to cause of ‘loud bang’ in Western Isles
A loud bang, said to have shaken at least one building, was heard widely in the southern chain of the Western Isles yesterday, 29th October 2014, apparently between Benbecula and Barra.The MoD has a...
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Majestic Line’s new MV Glen Etive to be ready for 2016 season
The Majestic Line, Scotland’s Argyll-based small ship cruise specialist, has announced that the new purpose-built vessel it has commissioned will be in service for the 2016 season, adding new and more...
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Launch of inspirational Lewis project to offer remote access to St Kilda
An invited audience from all over Scotland attended a key event on 26th February to progress the St Kilda Centre – Ionad Hiort – in the Uig area of the Isle of Lewis.This is an initiative to offer...
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