Am Bratach Magazine - No 331, May 2019

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In this issue

Final curtain falls on Am Bratach

Scant Support For Educational Reforms In Highland Schools

2 mins

Public Road Is Closed For Six Weeks

No temporary bridge means a 28-mile detour for motorists

4 mins

Bookends

 “The Map and the Clock: A Laureate’s Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland”, edited by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, 2017. Faber & Faber. £9.99.

3 mins

Graeme At Large

WHILE THE cat’s away, the mice will play! It’s that time of year again when I’ve been summoned to the west coast to cook for an eccentric landowner and his landed gentry guests.

5 mins

Obituary

Sheila Isobel Carney, 1933-2017

3 mins

Bookends

Caithness Writers Group, “Flights Of Imagination”, Fireflash Publishing, 2016. £6.99.

4 mins

The Road To Nowhere

Lochinver Church of Scotland with Suilven, shrouded in cloud, providing the background.

6 mins

Council Fails To Publicise Delayed Works On B871

MOTORISTS attempting to travel on the B871 between Syre and Kinbrace during the first week of December would have met with an unpleasant surprise.

2 mins

Bookends

Ali Smith: “Winter”, Hamish Hamilton, 2017. £16.99.

4 mins

Graeme At Large

HYGGE, LYKKE and Lagom are the Scandinavian buzzwords for leading a clean, healthy and fair way of living.

3 mins

The One That Got Away

The euphoria of the millennial celebrations didn’t linger long in the fishing community of Lochinver.

5 mins

Loch Duart Uses Science To Deter Rogue Suppliers

Loch Duart Ltd, the Scottish salmon farming company based at Badcall, Scourie (pictured), and in the Outer Hebrides, is taking the fight to food fraudsters to protect the reputation of its salmon.

2 mins

NHS Out-Of-Hours Rethink On Cards

Local working group to discuss “viable proposals” for urgent care

6 mins

Graeme At Large

THE EAST Neuk is an area of Scotland that I didn’t know overly well.

4 mins

Whose Land Is It, Anyway?

Brian MacLeod considers arguments for the proposed buyout of croft land in Tongue from Sutherland Estates

3 mins

Lord Napier At Kinlochbervie

On Thursday July 26 1883, Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inquiry into the Conditions of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland visited Kinlochbervie. The meeting was chaired by Baron Francis Napier, a former acting viceroy of India. Also present were Sir Kenneth S Mackenzie Bart, Donald Cameron Esq of Locheil, C Fraser-Mackintosh Esq, Sheriff Nicolson and Professor Mackinnon MA. Here we present the evidence of Angus MacAskill of Tarbet, Scourie.