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Hamish, Catherine and Evelyn A new community association has been set up to help and support the residents of An Acarsaid ...
A new community association has been set up to help and support the residents of An Acarsaid Care Home in Broadford on Skye.
Armadale Stores in Sleat was crowned Sustainability Champion at the Scottish Grocers awards ceremony in Glasgow last week. After being anonymously entered for the award back in the spring, a judging ...
An annual charity cycling event from Skye to Inverness held at the weekend has raised over £70,000 for three good causes. The Bridge to Bridge Cycle challenges riders to pedal the 77-mile route from ...
Ploughing at Satran, Pic Minginish Centenary Project The people of Minginish in Skye came together at the end of last month to mark the centenary of the events which brought their unique community ...
There is a notion around these parts, indeed any part of the Highlands and Islands (and wider Scotland?) destined to be ‘home’ to multi-billion pound investment by the renewables industry, that ...
Ross Cowie's campaign has saved lives across Scotland Tributes are being paid following the death of Portree man Ross Cowie, founder of the Lucky2BHere charity which has helped hundreds of people and ...
A fine turnout of 12 teams assembled at the Portree High School pitch on Saturday 28th December for Skye Camanachd’s annual John MacKinnon memorial sixes tournament. A dry day made for a very ...
Sarah Longley and her daughter Amelia are pictured in the Kirkton Hall with Roddy MacLeod, Mary Anderson, Marion MacRae, Rosie Greville and Cathie O’Kane. Photo by Willie Urquhart An art project which ...
Perle Hotels are in the process of installing 18 new luxury cabins further up the hill at its Bracken Hide business in Portree. Speaking to the Free Press, managing director Beth Rehman said the new ...
Gaelic psalmody is a beautiful, haunting form of music which is unique to the Scots Gaelic speaking world, now mostly within West Highlands and Western Isles and the Gaelic diaspora in our major ...
Glenelg Mountain Rescue Team is celebrating its 50th anniversary of helping to save lives on the hills – remarkably with one of the original members still in the line-up. The team was set up in 1973 ...