The popular store at Carnan BY KIRSTY WATT After 38 years serving the Uist community, the Hogg family have put their two Lovats supermarkets up for sale ahead of a well-earned retirement. The shops, l ...
DCT members, Tim and Angela Wallis, Mali MacLennan, Briony Anderson, Mandy Boswell, Kenny Munro and John MacKinnon with councillors John Finlayson and Drew Millar. Photograph: Willie Urquhart. BY DANI ...
Niall at the mural in Portree painted by his father Donnie. Photograph: Willie Urquhart BY DANIEL CULLEN Portree’s Birch has ...
A new £2.78 million Shannon class RNLI lifeboat, destined for the Portree station on Skye, has been officially launched into the water for the first time. The state-of-the-art vessel, which… ...
Glenbrittle BY JACKIE MACKENZIE Youth hostels in Skye and Wester Ross are among those featured in a release of archive images by Hostelling Scotland to mark its 95th anniversary. The photographs chart ...
A new £2.78 million Shannon class RNLI lifeboat, destined for the Portree station on Skye, has been officially launched into the water for the first time. The state-of-the-art vessel, which… ...
In 2006, work started on building the first wind farm on Skye. On moorland belonging to MacLeod Estate, a few miles south east of Dunvegan, the original Ben Aketil project started generating ...
In the latest feature published in association with the Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches project, Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, course leader for the MSc Material Culture and Gàidhealtachd History at ...
Dr John Shaw is one of the worlds’ foremost scholars of Gaelic oral traditions and is an Honorary Fellow in Celtic and Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University. Following encouragement from John Lorne ...
Folklorist Frances Wilkins on the beauty of a Gaelic Christmas hymn and the tales of emigration which lie behind it…… Emigration, whether forced or voluntary, by ...
LIAM ALASTAIR CROUSE on what the recordings on the Tobar an Dualchais website tell us about how the environment can shape cultural practice….. Like many coastal areas in the Highlands and Islands of ...