The Oban Times - 2018-07-05

• Celebritie­s have a dram fine time
• Rally call to ‘save’ beach
• Shinty success for Oban Camanachd
• Rubbish turns Ganavan beach into dump – again
• Audit reveals repairs backlog at Argyll colleges
• Playpark could open again in two weeks
• Pupils buy hoodies from newspaper profits
• Little ears listen in to top Scottish orchestra
• Sewage leak continues to worry residents
• Broadcasti­ng duo set sail for Oban
• Author and broadcaste­r backs Rockfield Centre
• Road work gets under way across Argyll
• Freya makes headway as helmet comes off
• Amazing start to school holidays
• Mull GP job to be advertised soon
• Bowmore Gaelic pupils visit Islay’s lifeboat
• Eilidh is raising cakes and funds for charity
• Third round of community council by-elections to take place
• Men’s club will start in Oban
• Oban flat helps cancer families
• Argyll MSP takes up new cabinet secretary position
• Lorn and Oban charity lands cash windfall
• Summertime Sweet treats
• Nomination­s sought for Scots Rural Awards
• £2.1m vessel shows optimism in fishing
• Harris holiday pioneers pass black house on to grandchild­ren
• Matters of grave importance
• Sewage saga in Nether Lochaber
• Dismay at visitors’ lack of care on visit to puffin colony
• Litter louts deserve serious punishment
• Oban Bay – a timely reminder
• Beachd Ailein
• WESTERN ISLES
• Bunessan World Otter Day was totally otter-tastic
• We live in such a beautiful place
• Searching for sisu in Scotland
• Garden survey reveals sightings of frogs and toads are drying up
• New land register will improve transparen­cy, says Cunningham
• This week’s walks
• Skye Festival begins
• Pipe bands’ success at Europeans
• Poet Michael Longley to give a poetry reading at Eilean Ban
• Summer dining in Oban: Loch Melfort Hotel
• Deadline looms to get your music MOJO working
• Your local radio listings
• Cask 88 bottling first of Scottish ‘folklore’ series
• Independen­t Audi, Porsche & BMW specialist­s
• Housing associatio­ns and councils key to tackling chronic shortage of affordable homes
• CIH calls on government to suspend right to buy as new figures reveal sales continue to outstrip replacemen­ts
• NFUS gets tough on livestock attacks
• Around the markets
• Farmers warned over holiday safety as schools break up for the summer
• SCF comments on Scottish Government strategy document
• GEM MARKS NHS 70TH BIRTHDAY WITH A REMINDER TO BE ‘BLUE LIGHT AWARE’
• Private sales free listings for items under £100
• ANNOUNCEME­NTS
• Argyll botanic garden creates Silent Spaces
• Online treatment programme for depression now available in Argyll
• THOUGHT for the week
• Champagne sailing for ‘Costa del Round Mull’ yacht race
• West Highland Tennis Week
• Martial arts
• All systems go for D & K Cup tournament
• Oban Lorne start pre-season training
• John McPhee crashes out fighting for the win in Assen
• SPOT THE SHINTY BALL
• New car park rules slammed
• Strontian care home hosts first open house event
• Huddersfie­ld athlete is first to do the ‘Double Ramsay’ of Lochaber summits
• Court hears school Dunblane-style massacre fears
• Searchers find body of climber missing on Ben Nevis since January
• Popular teachers leave St Columba’s Primary
• Summit cookin’ on ben for Gary
• Emotional day as Caol honours village stalwart
• NHS boss to step down
• Nine motorists to be reported for drink/drug driving
• Significan­t drop in Highland crime
• An enduring partnershi­p
• View from the Chamber
• The WH Way is made a little easier on old military road
• Calls to restrict trawlers in Inner Sound of Skye
• MSP calls for protected status for Iolaire site
• Lewis Pipe Band tunes up for busy season
• Lochaber MSP appointed to ministeria­l role by Nicola Sturgeon
• Charity starts year-long partnershi­p
• Sewage saga in Nether Lochaber
• Parking continues to be controvers­ial
• Glencoe Community Trust not at odds with community
• Beachd Ailein
• Dismay at visitors’ lack of care on visit to puffin colony
• Foundry boss inspects Fort’s bronze Ford
• More Roamerisms from the early 1990s
• Ardnamurch­an High School hosts Celebratio­n of Success
• Texas tennis players head for Oban
• Temperatur­es soar for Lochaber’s ‘Triple Hirple’
• All systems go for D &K Cup tournament
• John McPhee crashes out fighting for Assen win
• Fort shinty club’s second pitch plan on track for 2020
• Nevis Range moving forward with interim chief Rod Pashley

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