Wild Lochaber Blogs
The latest bleats from the sheep on the street...
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
We have put together a collection of Lochaber blogs to highlight the traditions, culture and wildlife in the various regions, including the West Coast Islands.
We show entries from the last 100 days, organised by region, topic and blog. The titles and text snippets give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
Lochaber Chamber of Commerce
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Are you interested in learning more about Stramash? This week I caught up Cameron Sprague, the driving local force behind educating youngsters in the great outdoors. He is genuinely more than happy to share his vision for the growth of outdoor nurseries, not only here in Lochaber but across...
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Can you help us celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week? To celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2021 the DYW West Highland team are looking for employers and apprentices to showcase their inspirational apprenticeship stories, highlighting the benefits of the “earn while you learn”...
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Did you know that West Highland College UHI plays a key role in supporting businesses and their employees in our communities around the West Highlands by offering CPD, bespoke training and a variety of business initiatives? As part of this, we offer FREE training through the Flexible Workforce...
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Marsh Commercial welcome new team member Rebecca Griggs (known as “Bex”). Rebecca will have primary responsibility for Fort William and Lochaber. Rebecca is an experienced, passionate and knowledgeable insurance professional who has an absolute focus on working with clients to understand their...
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Build an app and offer your audience a quality user experience If you are self-employed, a content editor, community manager or local business manager, you know that your message must be accessible from several channels to reach your audience. Seamless app service With ScotApps, no matter what type...
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Join The West Highland Museum On Tuesday 9th February 2pm – 4pm to promote the gallery’s “Grand Tour of West Highland Museum’s Top 100 Objects”. The West Highland Museum are working in partnership with the Open Virtual World team at St Andrews University to create a digital gallery for...
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At the start of December Fibre 1 were delighted to be shortlisted for ‘Reseller of the Year’ at Comms Business Awards. Although they did not win the award, to be shortlisted and be included in the top 3 out of 200 businesses at such an early stage in the business was an incredible...
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ScotRail, in partnership with Transport Scotland, will be bringing the UK’s first active travel carriages to Scotland’s West Coast. The Class 153 carriages have been especially designed to support active travel by providing people with the space and storage needed to comfortably take their bikes,...
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Premium members NEWCo (part of AJ Engineering) have had a great start to 2021 with over £500,000 of work being secured. General manager Neil Worsdall who has worked at the Fort William-based facility for four years said it was the busiest start to a year that he had experienced. We are delighted...
Abacus Mountain Guides
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We have had unusually strong and persistent easterly winds for a week now bringing fresh snowfall and creating deep accumulations of snow and a High avalanche hazard in some areas. It has been a very difficult week to get out and do anything safely, so it's a good time to brush up on some more...
wondering wanderers
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For various reasons I’ve been reading back on the very first year or so of keeping this blog when we were at the planning stages of our 2011 WWOOFing adventures. Ten years ago, right about now, we were working our notice in our jobs and gearing up to head off on our year of unknowns. Nine...
Sunart Community Company
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Sunart Christmas Market & Online Grand Christmas Silent Auction THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! On the 28th November the Sunart Community Christmas Market & Tree Light Switch On took place, in partnership with the Community Council. The event was hailed a great success with the Sunart...
Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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Green energy boss hits out at Scottish Government after budget hopes ‘turn to dust’ Feb 1st, 2021 PRESS RELEASE The boss of one of Scotland’s most remote and innovative rural businesses says he is bitterly disappointed at the Scottish Government’s failure to resolve a long-running business rates...
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
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The weather and lockdown have limited activity considerably, but I have managed a few things such as second records for Raasay for Cupressus lawsoniana (Lawson’s Cypress) and Olearia macrodonta (New Zealand Holly), the former planted, the latter looking self-sown. Yesterday the gorse near...
Highland Titles
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We hope you’ve had an excellent start to the year and that you are already looking forward to another year of wildlife challenges, land management successes, new adventures, and everything in-between! In this month’s Reserve Update, we bring you some exciting animal news, and we reveal the...
The Oban Times
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'The SNP continues to spend money and time on a divisive second independence referendum,' says Conservative MSP. The post Cameron ‘deeply disappointed’ with Govt’s budget appeared first on The Oban Times.
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The UK’s first independent salmon farming start-up in 30 years has been refused permission for a third fish-farm site. The post Skye fish farm denied approval appeared first on The Oban Times.
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Six of the new cases, which were confirmed on Wednesday, are linked to an outbreak in Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway. The post Ten new Covid cases in the Western Isles this week appeared first on The Oban Times.
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ENGAGEMENT BOYD – CUNNINGHAM – Both families are delighted to announce the engagement of Iain, son of Iain and Isobel Boyd, Seo-nis, Connel, to Miriam, daughter of Martin and Anne Cunningham, Colry, Sligo, Ireland. DEATHS FERGUSON – Suddenly at home on January 23, 2021, aged 64 years, Rachel...
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At the January meeting of the community council, members were informed that funds remaining in the council bank account at the last statement amounted to £126.57. The post Glencoe and Glen Etive Community Resilience Group remains ready to help during lockdown appeared first on The Oban Times.
