Highlands and Western Isles
‘Relentless, embarrassing & cruel’: Report highlights social isolation faced by young women in Highlands
It is 5:35pm on a warm spring evening in Inverness and, as a 16-year-old, I ...
By Anna MacQueen, The Scottish Beacon
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Book-mad couple end seven-year itch to open shop on Forres High Street
A local couple who met while studying English Literature have a started a new chapter ...
By Marc Hindley, Forres Local
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Community Food Larders in East and Central Sutherland
Community Larders offer the opportunity to charities and community groups to address food poverty while ...
By Silvia Muras, Kyle Chronicle
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Scotland communities rally to support increasing number of people requiring food assistance
The Trussell Trust charity recently revealed that they had distributed 128,490 emergency food parcels in ...
By The Scottish Beacon Reporters
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The Key to New Changing Facilities at Ness Football Club
The view from the fios office is panoramic and encompasses machair, the North Atlantic, and ...
By Netty Sopata, Fios
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Forres given share of £1.5m fund for town centre regeneration
Forres is to get a share of £1,500,000 funding allocated for town centre regeneration and ...
By Marc Hindley, Forres Local
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Peat and circumstance: rethinking peat harvesting in the whisky industry
On the afternoon of Wednesday, 11 October, Beam Suntory and Ardtalla Estate made a joint ...
By Brian Palmer, The Ileach
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Islay: A Quantum magnetometer at Finlaggan
The device will continuously measure tiny changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, reporting this data ...
By Brian Palmer, The Ileach
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Islay: Community Climate Action Plan
In a recent report from Neil Gow published in the Ileach concerning the Carbon Neutral ...
By Brian Palmer, The Ileach
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Innovative local journalism collaborative, the Scottish Beacon, launched!
Eighteen independent local and hyperlocal news publications serving urban and rural communities across Scotland have ...
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Ferry sick: Network-wide disruption on ferry services in Hebridean Isles
Recently, we reported that were the MV Hebridean Isles to complete repairs while the MV ...
By Ileach
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Green gassy Islay: Could hydrogen be the solution to the distilleries’ energy consumption?
The trail towards net-zero carbon emissions offers several possibilities. Still, for Islay, as one of ...
By Brian Palmer, Ileach
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