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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Safety-Zone provides health and safety training courses, including IOSH, NEBOSH and E-Learning, and a health & safety consultancy, throughout the Scottish Highland and Islands. Safety Zone is delighted to announce they will be running the NEBOSH one day Leadership in Health and Safety...
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We’ve all heard the phrase “Shop local” and at this festive time when most of us are doing more shopping than usual it is a great time to support our wide range of fantastic local businesses. That’s why Lochaber Chamber of Commerce is once again running our “Shop local” festive prize draw...
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Thursday 6 December saw the 10,000th native tree from the Nevis Landscape Partnership’s Future Forests project planted in Glen Nevis by well-known musician and radio presenter Gary Innes. Gary Innes braves the muddy conditions to plant the 10,000th native tree up Glen Nevis Gary had his...
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Introducing the Nevis Partnership’s first fundraising campaign! Beginning in 2014, the Future Forests project started the process of restoring the native woodland in Glen Nevis. Key to the success of the project was bringing together the local community, enabling them to get hands on in...
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Norfab, a leading manufacturer & supplier of fish farm equipment to the aquaculture industry, is pleased to report the successful movement of live brood fish for AquaGen (one of the worlds’ largest salmon breeding company with its head office in Trondheim and major production operations in...
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Corpach Boatbuilding Company has joined Gael Force Group Ltd, in a strategically significant move which could strengthen the West of Scotland’s boat building industry and see the introduction of steel feed barge building on the West coast. With potential to expand workforce and capabilities at...
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Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Minister for Further & Higher Education and visited West Highland College UHI in Fort William last week (Monday November 19).This was the Minister’s first visit to the college and, over a lunch prepared by Professional Cookery students, he met with Lydia Rohmer,...
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The Importance of good mental health What can employers do to help support their staff and how Lochaber Hope can help? Lochaber Hope are now offering an Employment Assisted Programme to assist employers in supporting their staff. What can employers do, and how can Lochaber Hope help? EAP,...
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A New Way to Engage with Local Social Enterprise ILM Highland have now expanded their service to offer a delivery service across Lochaber ILM (Highland) is a social enterprise and registered charity, and has been delivering valuable services across the Highlands for almost 25 years. Their...
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A Number of Bookings for the New Year Fort William Marina and Shoreline Company have secured a number of cruise ships booked to dock in Fort William in 2019 For a season spanning March to October, there are 17 cruise ships booked to visit Fort William with numbers of passengers ranging from 50 to...
The Sunart Diaries
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The first post on a new website is always a tricky one. After all, almost no-one will ever read it. Traffic (visitors) accumulate as the site gets indexed by search engines and as the volume of posts increases. No one knows about The Sunart Diaries, so no one will visit. Yet. Therefore, rather than...
Scottish Islands Explorer
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The South Lochs area of the Isle of Lewis has much to offer and a contemporary house at Garyvard - the Poet's Garden - is something special. Take a look through Zoopla and see what's on offer - at around £127.5k.Scottish Islands Explorer - has much space to offerDigital Edition: every property...
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When the Orkney Islands Council showed an interest in purchasing Faray and adjacent islands, it was driven by an interest to undertake wind farm development there. One of its strategies is to create a 'carbon neutral' county. The area is certainly rich in resources of wind and wave forces. Read...
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It's not hard to see why - on merely glancing at this photo of Luskentyre, Harris - the Scottish islands are listed on the world's top travel destinations. Study the report in The Press and Journal.Scottish Islands Explorer - a magazine featuring special places …Digital Edition: … that can be...
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An article in the New York Times considers the interests of residents as well as visitors to Shetland.Scottish Islands Explorer - words woven to give insightsDigital Edition: traverses the Atlantic in a thrice
Hunter Mountaineering Courses and Guiding
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14th Dec 2001- I think. Little Tryfan, North Wales. Early winter Back in 2001 I was working in South Wales on Gower. I made a lot of trips up to North Wales, year round – and this particular trip was to climb with Kate Smith and Lois Woodward. I think it was Lois’ first time climbing in...
Craigard Croft
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I can't remember ever agreeing with anything that the Michael Gove ( UK Environment Minister ) has said or done in this job or in his previous incarnations in government. But this time I have to agree with his grounds for rejecting plans to reintroduce European lynx into Kielder Forest. The...
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Coquetdale red squirrels again........ thank you for your votes. (Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 13:34)Thanks to your support the Coquetdale Squirrel Group are through to the final of the Aviva Community Fund project funding. Now we have to provide additional information for the judges to supplement the project submission. they want to know more about the need for our project, how the money will be...
Marc Calhoun
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I have been posting on islands that I have not yet been able to visit. While deciding which island to write about next, I noticed, on my blog statistics page, that a post I did on Little Colonsay last year, an island I've never been to, had a large number of hits in the past week. I had to scratch...
West Coast Mountain Guides
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