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 2nd August 2018.
Dancing queens join Abbamania pop party
Dancing queens partied the night away when a top Abba tribute act came to Oban. Hundreds of the original supergroup’s fans packed the Corran Halls on Friday night to experience Abbamania, bill...
Faulty Oban ramp traps cars on ferry
by Sandy Neil
sneil@obantimes.co.uk
Cars and their drivers were stuck for hours on the Isle of Lewis ferry from Barra after the linkspan in Oban broke.
As a Western Isles MSP c...
Sealife Sanctuary’s otter Lewis has died
Lewis, who was 13 years old, died due to a ‘degenerative condition caused by arthritis’.
The Scottish Sealife Sanctuary in Barcaldine has announced the death of its beloved otter Lewis. Lew...
Oban gives finding a cure a winning chance
Spinning the wheel at a casino night at Soroba House raising funds for the SMA Trust.
Charity gamblers and guests at a fundraising casino night have raised more than £6,000 to help find a c...
On-street parking causes ‘mayhem’
by Kathie Griffths
kgriffths@obantimes.co.uk
These parked cars in Glencruitten Road were served handwritten notes from annoyed residents.
Parked cars clogging up Oban streets h...