A LARGE crowd attended the Plockton’s open-air church annual Easter service on Sunday April 1. The service was conducted by Pastor Fred MacFarland and Rev Roddie Rankin. Bacon rolls were served at the close.
THE ANNUAL spring bulb and baking show, organised by Plockton and District Horticultural and Arts and Crafts Society, was held in Plockton Hall on Saturday March 31. Entries and attendance were up this year. SAMANTHA Donnellan of Plockton has been awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to work on multi- drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa.
After finishing at Plockton High School, Samantha studied at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities and is now working at the world’s oldest institute for tropical medicine in Liverpool, focusing on TB and HIV. In 2016, Samantha completed a PHD researching the use of Nan medicines for the treatment of TB at Heriot-Watt University/Moredon Research Institute in Edinburgh. Along with Isobell MacInnes, a nurse from South Uist who is to study Lyme Disease, they will receive grants of almost £75,000.