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Hotels in Durness
and Rhiconich sold
by Fiona Burnett
We can confirm
that Smoo Cave Hotel and Rhiconich Hotel have been sold. More
Field club seeks
shooting ban
The publicly owned Assynt Foundation is taking “soundings”
on whether or not to allow the shooting of woodcock on its land
after the Assynt Field Club asked the group to ban the sport.
More
Waste paper could
end up in China should collection methods change
by Mandy
Haggith
Our waste paper is currently recycled into newspapers but if
Highland Council set up a kerbside collection of paper for recycling,
it could end up being shipped to China. More
Bookends
by Kevin
Crowe
Few aspects of Scottish history raise more heated debates than
the Highland Clearances. More
Goulder’s
Alaska
by Dave Goulder
Camp Denali’s owners, the parents of Land Cole, had passed
on the message — “Look after the Scots!” More
Fiona Burnett
talks to
Allan MacRae,
Torbreck
The Highland
Clearances are not easily forgotten especially by a Highlander
who has lost forebears of a distant generation. So it’s
not surprising that for some the importance of owning their own
land is such a driving force in their everyday lives. More
Ùrachadh
bound for Glasgow
Five singers and musicians from Caithness and Sutherland who
toured the Highlands in the summer, bringing the music and Gaelic
songs of Assynt and the Reay Country to a wider audience, have
now been booked to present Ùrachadh at the Celtic Connections
Festival in Glasgow. More
‘Anyone
can be a poet,’ says Gunn
by Fiona Burnett
Dunnet, Caithness-born
playwright, George Gunn, has embraced his appointment as writer-in-residence
at Strathnaver Museum, Bettyhill, with great gusto. More
Clachtoll broch
study underway
Robin Noble, well known as a conservationist, but who also has
had a considerable involvement with archaeology in the past,
has been appointed by Historic Assynt to work for next year investigating
options for the future of the Clachtoll Broch. More
History file
by Malcolm
Bangor-Jones
The problems of subletting amongst the crofter population had
quickly come to the attention of John Crawford, the new factor
for the Tongue district of the Duke of Sutherland’s estate.
More
Otter sets cat
among pigeons
“I must
say I feel a bit like the prophet Jonah,” Yorkshireman Michael
Otter confided in a speech to the 2007 annual gathering of the
Scottish Crofting Foundation, held in Dingwall. More
Profile: Donna
Murray, Borgie
by Fiona
Burnett
Creating
a stir is not a natural occurrence for visual artist, Donna Murray,
recently appointed artist-in-residence at Strathnaver Museum,
in Bettyhill. More
Litir bhon ’a
Cheathramh
le Alasdair
MacMhaoirn
Bhuail The
Backcoaster’s Diary orm gu mòr sa mhios seo chaidh.
More (billingual)
Invercharron
runs into poor weather
The wet day
the Invercharron Traditional Highland Games, shared with much
of the rest of the country on September 15, took its toll. More
Letter to the
editor
Alec George’s
lovely Gaelic
A few years
ago when in the north on our usual yearly visit, my younger daughter,
Margaret, and I called at the Tongue community centre, where
the senior citizens were gathered for the monthly communal meal,
to see our old friend, Hugh from Modsary [Skerray]. More
‘Little
local networks springing up’ as demand for local food grows
by Mandy
Haggith
Interest
in eating locally-produced food is on the increase, but producers
in North West Sutherland face ever greater challenges. More
Backcoaster’s
Diary
Alastair McIntosh, visiting professor of human ecology at Strathclyde
University, made your correspondent splutter over his brose while
idly thumbing the letter pages of The Herald. More
Assynt Highland
Games roundup and slideshow
A local lady
remarked how strange it was to have a Assynt Highland Games without
Norman A MacAskill, whose death occurred this year. More
Click here to see slideshow
Litir bhon a’Cheathramh
Tha dà rud ùr ann an saoghal na Gàidhlig
anns na làithean seo, Plana Gàidhlig aig Comhairle
na Gaidhealtachd agus an stiùiriche ùr aig Bòrd
na Gàidhlig. Tòisichidh mi leis a’ chuspair
air nach eil mòran agam: an ceannard ùr air Bòrd
na Gàidhlig. More (billingual)
History file
by Malcolm
Bangor-Jones
John Crawford became factor for the Tongue district of the Sutherland
estate in 1859. He recorded his first impressions of his new
charge in a series of letters to the estate commissioner, George
Loch. More
Foundation now
sets sights on new, wider study
by Mandy
Haggith
The people
of Assynt appear to have resolved a conflict that erupted when
some results of a feasibility study for up to six for wind turbines
in Glencanisp was made public. More
Some great turns
at Durness games
At last Friday’s Durness Highland Gathering, Larry Brock
from North Carolina was the outstanding heavyweight, winning
seven out of the eight competitions, winning the overall championship
of the games and the Carrie Cup. More
Don’t just
recycle, learn to Freecycle!
When you
break a pot and are left with the lid, you can guarantee that
someone, somewhere has that lidless pot. But how do you find
them? More
Lairg Crofters
Show — August 25 2007
preview by
Fiona Burnett
A warm welcome
awaits you at the Lairg Crofters Show, this year falling a week
later than usual, on Saturday, August 25. More
Litir bhon a’Cheathramh
le Alasdair
MacMhaoirn
Tha gu leòr
a’ tachairt anns na làithean seo. Tha poileasaidh
Gàidhlig ùr a’ tighinn bhon chomhairle agus
tha comataidh co-comhairleachaidh air croitearachd a’ siubhail
mu chuairt na Gàidhealtachd. More
Fair Trade shop
opens in Lochinver
A new venture
in Assynt, transforming the Vestey family’s former estate
office into a fair trade shop, is opening this week. More
Well known hotel
changes hands
Tongue Hotel,
overlooking Castle Bharraich and the Kyle of Tongue, has changed
owners. More
Durness Highland
Gathering
preview by
Fiona Burnett
This year’s
Durness games chieftain is Sangobeg-born journalist, Willie Morrison,
now retired in Inverness. More
History File
by Malcolm
Bangor-Jones
Eddrachillis
was formerly part of the very extensive parish of Durness and
was only set aside as a new entity with its own minister in the
mid 1720s. More
View from the
croft
by John MacDonald
By the time
that you read this it will be once again clipping sheep and getting
the grass harvest secured. More
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