The Oban Times

SLEAT Community Trust  (SCT) on the Isle of Skye is hoping local people will help them raise the money needed to buy a valuable woodland for community enterprises.

OBAN laid on a spectacle of a Highland games at this year’s Argyllshire Gathering, with local talent excelling in athletics, dancing, piping and traditional music.

AROUND 90 youngsters aged between seven and 16 years took part in the annual Lochaber Street League (LSL) football tournament at Claggan Park on Saturday.

OBAN Bay’s ambitious pontoon project is dead in the water amid a sea of resentment and allegations.

OBAN High School Pipe Band returned home to a rain soaked but rapturous welcome as the Champion of Champions 2010, late last Saturday night.

BRITISH service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were remembered at a ceremomy of remembrance in Fort William last Wednesday morning.

A CHURCH of Scotland minister was found safe on a Lochaber hillside known as The Devil’s Ridge – 20 hours after he was due to return home.

THE MOST vulnerable residents in Argyll and Bute are to be put at risk of homelessness when their housing benefit is cut next year, according to Shelter Scotland.

AN 18-YEAR-old law student has become the first woman to win a gold medal for solo piping at the Argyllshire Gathering.  

METHADONE may be made more widely available throughout Argyll and Bute – the chairman of the region’s Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (ADP) has confirmed.

THE FORMER health centre in Caol is to be demolished to make way for 12 new council homes.

THE GLENFINNAN Highland Gathering was held on Saturday and provided a great day’s entertainment for the large crowds.

A POPULAR football pitch in Mallaig has been left to deteriorate into an overgrown mess by a building firm which constructed a housing development nearby.

YOUNG and old were kept amused during a sweltering day at Killin Show on Saturday.

FED UP residents of Fed up residents team up to tidy village roadside verges have been forced to tidy road verges themselves - and they plan to send a bill to roads authority Transerv.

DEVELOPERS of Oban’s derelict Argyll Hotel have dismissed claims they only want to demolish the building and sell the site.

AS ARGYLL and Bute Council tries to make £9-£15million savings each year for three years, The Oban Times can reveal the salaries of the council’s senior officers. 

A BLUEFACE Leicester from Alan MacKellar’s prizewinning Seaview stock took the top prize from a high-quality entry in this year’s Appin Show, held at Stalker Croft.

Lochaber Ceilidh Trail band play the final gig in their summer tour at the Ben Nevis Inn, Glen Nevis, on August 1.  

FORT William’s poor start to the season continued with a heavy defeat, despite their opponents finishing the game with nine men.