Now available in digital format, The Oban Times has been bringing its readers all of the most up to date coverage of the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland for over 150 years. Reporting issues from the Mull of Kintyre to Kyle of Lochalsh on the mainland, to the Inner and Outer Hebridean Islands with Argyll and Lochaber at its heartlands.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Oban Times & Lochaber Times 1st September 2016.
Oban care home needs rebuilt but will not close
lglen@obantimes.co.uk A GUARANTEE that Eadar Glinn Care Home in Oban will not close was given by the NHS Highland locality manager at Oban Community Council on Monday night. Annie MacLeod, locality m...
Dates set for new waste collections
TIMESLINE NEW dates for refuse and recycling collection have been confirmed. General waste will be collected every three weeks starting from Monday October 3 in Kintyre, Mull, Islay, Jura and Bute; f...
Lismore gears up for book festival
SCOTLAND is the theme of this year’s Lismore Book Week, which runs from Monday to Friday next week in Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre. The festival features talks by James Robertson, Alan Riach on tra...
CalMac set to transform services
COMMUNITY, social enterprise and safety are at the heart of the winning bid to provide west coast ferry services from October. CalMac has revealed its plans to transform services which includes a pos...
Hugh Smith’s letter from Islay
All that jazz Bowls presentation, left to right, Kenny MacGlashan, Hamish Gillespie, Lady Elizabeth and Sir William Stewart, Andy Hope and Stuart MacNeill. THE island’s 2016 jazz festival will kick o...