A work boat has sunk in the Sound of Kerrera near Oban. HM Coastguard and RNLI Oban lifeboat were alerted to the vessel at about 07:30 after it started sinking. No-one was onboard at the time, but ...

A tiny Scottish island which is home to fewer than 50 people is to receive a £1.7m upgrade to its ferry berth in a bid to help the local economy. Kerrera, near Oban, is about four miles long and one ...

WE had been climbing a variety of Corbetts and Munros in the south-west Highlands, an area that I've largely ignored for one reason or another in recent years. Rain and strong winds had driven us off ...

The tiny island of Kerrera has its first tarred road linking communities in the north and south of the island. The mile-long route opened as a forestry-grade track in November last year. Work to tar ...

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin claim to have identified the world's oldest bug. The specimen is a millipede ancestor found on the island of Kerrera in Scotland, and it dates back 425 ...

The residents of the isle of Kerrera are to stage their first Halloween party after completion of its first tarmacadam road joined the two main communities together. Did you know with a Digital ...

It bears all the hallmarks of a plot line from the adventures of Lassie, the life-saving Hollywood hound. Badly injured after his car plunged down a hillside on a Scots island, farmer Donald McGregor ...

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THE ferry berth on a tiny Scottish island is to receive a £1.7 million upgrade to help local people and boost visitor numbers. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's Way tour of ...