West Highland Free Press

2 weeks ago | whfp.com | Keith MacKenzie

Ambitious plans have been unveiled to revive an historic whisky distillery on Skye, creating 26 new jobs, a visitor centre and staff accommodation. Séamus Ó Baoighill and Seumas Gorman hope to develop the distillery in Broadford, where they currently run a small-scale gin production business.

4 weeks ago | whfp.com | Keith MacKenzie

Plans to build new community sports facilities in south Skye have been boosted by an £150,000 award from Sportscotland. Sports clubs and community facilities across Scotland will benefit from £450,000 of investment from sportscotland’s Sport Facilities Fund to local partners, including South Skye Community CampusThe award will help a new synthetic pitch to be built in Broadford, adding to the facilities that will be part of the brand new primary school for the village.

1 month ago | whfp.com | Keith MacKenzie

There is a notion around these parts, indeed any part of the Highlands and Islands (and wider Scotland?) destined to be ‘home’ to multi-billion pound investment by the renewables industry, that significant local benefit is a ‘given’. The fact that nothing could be further from the truth is what gives objectors the traction that they need to attempt to disrupt, and rightly so. For any significant, long-term benefit to be forthcoming; negotiation is crucial.

1 month ago | whfp.com | Keith MacKenzie

A Wester Ross community is calling for urgent road safety improvements amid growing traffic volumes generated by the North Coast 500. Shieldaig Community Council say there have been several near misses for pedestrians, including a child being struck by a car mirror, and are now urging action from Highland Council before something more serious occurs. The potential dangers posed to local school children who have to cross the busy A896 has been top of the community council’s agenda for some time.

2 months ago | whfp.com | Keith MacKenzie

A Skye man, whose life “was turned upside down” by a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, is set to undergo medical treatment in Mexico in a bid to secure a fighting chance in his battle with the debilitating condition. James Coull, from Harlosh, plans to fly to Mexico in May to undergo Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation – a chemotherapy treatment designed to help halt disease progression in neurologic autoimmune diseases, such as MS, for which there is no current cure.