IT IS just over nine hours by car from Acharacle to the fabled academic spires of Oxford, but it is a journey that has taken years of effort and hard work for Charlie-Anne Pleming.
And Charlie, 18, will make history next month when she makes that 486-mile journey from her Highland home to Oxford as the first pupil from Ardnamurchan High School to gain a place to study at the city’s world-famous university.