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Oban Games spectacle delights crowd


Oban Games spectacle delights crowd

OBAN laid on a spectacle of a Highland games at this year’s Argyllshire Gathering, with local talent excelling in athletics, dancing, piping and traditional music.


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Oban pontoon project fails to find favour


OBAN Bay’s ambitious pontoon project is dead in the water amid a sea of resentment and allegations.


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Young Oban pipers are champions of champions


Young Oban pipers are champions of champions

OBAN High School Pipe Band returned home to a rain soaked but rapturous welcome as the Champion of Champions 2010, late last Saturday night.


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Faye first woman piper to strike gold at Oban


Faye first woman piper to strike gold at Oban

AN 18-YEAR-old law student has become the first woman to win a gold medal for solo piping at the Argyllshire Gathering.

 


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Development agency backs £7.5m marine science park at Dunstaffnage


Development agency backs £7.5m marine science park at Dunstaffnage

PLANS to create a multi-million pound marine science park in Argyll have been given the go-ahead by development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).


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‘Miracle’ escape from Connel car crash


WITNESSES say it was a ‘miracle’ that anyone survived a ‘serious’ car crash on Connel Bridge, at the weekend.


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Baby Alfie makes early arrival on loch side


Baby Alfie makes early arrival on loch side

THE STUNNING scenery of Loch Lomond attracts many tourists but on August 23 one newborn just couldn’t wait to see it.


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Future still uncertain for Oban hotel


DEVELOPERS of Oban’s derelict Argyll Hotel have dismissed claims they only want to demolish the building and sell the site.


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Pail of puppies abandoned at roadside


Pail of puppies abandoned at roadside

AN OBAN taxi driver got an unexpected shock when he went to look in a old plastic builders’ bucket lying beside the roadside at Kilmore, near Oban - the pail was full of puppies.


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Oban Bay pontoon project unlikely to receive £900,000 funding from council coffers


THE FUTURE of the Oban Bay Marine pontoon project hangs in the balance after a private meeting has made a decision on future council funding of the proposal.


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