West Highland Free Press

1 week ago | whfp.com | Michael Russell

Lochalsh and Skye Housing Association held a charity walk from Kilmarie to Sligachan last Saturday in memory of Donnie Martin and to raise money for the new Skye Camanachd stand that has been named after him. A spokesman for the housing association told the Free Press: “We had 20 walkers for the sponsored walk in very mixed weather conditions in memory of Donnie who worked for us for many years.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.