Am Bratach - No 331, May 2019
Am Bratach - No 331, May 2019
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In dieser Angelegenheit
Final curtain falls on Am Bratach
The Postie's Post
WHEN YOU consider that we really don’t have that many roads in the Highlands, the ones we do have seem to get a story from most people you talk to.
5 mins
Council Gritters Fall Short In Assynt
‘I took to social media in the vain hope that somebody would notice’ — Cllr Currie
4 mins
Bookends
“She Said He Said I Said: New Writing Scotland 35”, edited by Diana Hendry and Susie Maguire, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2017. £9.95.
4 mins
Graeme At Large
Graeme At Large
6 mins
A 19th Century View Of 'Wild' Land
A 19th Century View Of 'Wild' Land
4 mins
Geopark Means Business This Year
Securing long-term government support is a priority, says new chairman
7 mins
Fraser Darling's View Of Highland Medical Care
The “West Highland Survey: an essay in human ecology”, edited by Frank Fraser Darling, was published by the Oxford University Press in 1955. Fraser Darling (1903-79) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author who between 1939 and 1943 brought derelict land into agricultural production on Tanera Mòr in the Summer Isles. In January 1944 he met Tom Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, who was aware of Fraser Darling’s published works which included a popular weekly column on agricultural science syndicated in several Highland newspapers. They agreed his plan for a social and biological investigation into the problems of the West Highlands and for establishing an agricultural advisory and demonstration centre in the crofting areas. In Fraser Darling’s own words, the West Highland Survey was established “in order to examine in a spirit of scientific inquiry, to gather a solid body of facts for analysis and synthesis, which would serve as a foundation for a future policy for the region”. He continued: “The argument was maintained that if the problem were understood in its wholeness, solution would be possible”. In June 1944, a team which included Frank Fraser Darling as director and four young Gaelic-speaking field officers, began work. The resulting 438-page book includes the following account of the Highlands and Islands Medical Service, launched in 1913 and forerunner of the Scottish National Health Service. After thirty years, the surveyors regarded the service as an unqualified success, an enviable situation underlined by the number of able medics seeking work in the post-war Highlands.
5 mins
From Our Archives
Long service nurse to be honoured by community
4 mins
The Postie's Post
IF YOU are a regular reader of my postie’s posts you will probably sigh when you realise that I am talking about roads again this month. But I do have an excuse and that is because the Highland Council aren’t really that good at managing them at times.
4 mins
Bookends
George Gunn, “The Great Edge”, Grace Note Publications, 2017. £12.99.
4 mins
Scant Support For Educational Reforms In Highland Schools
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.
10 mins
Quick Croft Disposal Begs Questions
‘One of the purposes of the 2010 Crofting Reform Act was to address speculation in land’
3 mins
Canada's First Premier Under Scrutiny
John A Macdonald accused of abuse of First Nation peoples.
4 mins
Am Bratach Magazine Description:
Verlag: NWSCCA Ltd
Kategorie: News
Sprache: English
Häufigkeit: Monthly
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