Gairloch & District Times

02/10/2025

As we batten down the hatches ahead of Storm Amy, we’re aware there are some changes to planned events over the coming days.

If you have made the decision to cancel or postpone an event, or have made changes to usual business times, please feel free to share the info in comments to help get the word out.

Stay safe folks!

02/10/2025

In the latest Wester Ross Round-up:

🟡 Gairloch Museum submit roundhouse planning application.
🟡 SSEN organise two new public meetings to share updated Dundonnell roadworks plans.
🟡 Local groups get Hydro funding, including Gairloch Community Council and Gairloch Boat Club
🟡 Gairloch Primary School Parent Council and Gairloch Community Car Scheme & Hospital Car seek volunteers
..and lots more. Read here and subscribe if you haven't already 👇

Read to the end to find out how to take part in red squirrel appreciation week.

29/09/2025

Something to share?
The Gairloch & District Times submissions are now open for our next issue, which will be out on the 10th of October. If you have something for us to include, we’d love to hear from you! Deadline for submissions is this Friday, 3rd October, at 10am.
Full info on how to reach us in comments.
Many thanks to Iain Aitken for this cheerful shot of a dragonfly at Laide and Aultbea Community Woodland.
📷 Photo credit: Iain Aitken

26/09/2025

Issue 19 is out today. Available in all good local shops, and, if you're a paying subscriber, for download in glorious technicolour from here 👇

Issue 19 is out now and available to download from the bottom of this post for all our paying digital subscribers.

25/09/2025

In the latest Wester Ross Round-up:

🟡 Gairloch Bank of Scotland to close next year
🟡 SSEN confirm no roadworks at Dundonnell until next year, and a presentation giving a timeline for their subsea work in Little. Loch Broom
🟡 Tartan week in Lochcarron is coming
🟡 New fossils discovered at Diabaig
🟡 A video from the Wester Ross Tractor Run
.. and loads of other news.

Read to the end to watch a video from the Wester Ross Tractor Run 2025.

23/09/2025

What’s your view? Do you have a favourite shot from around Wester Ross over the last couple of weeks?

If so, we’d love to see! Share your best shots in the comments below, and if you tell us ‘permission to share’ we may do just that.

📷 Photo credit: Kate Larsen-Daw

18/09/2025

SSEN say sorry after locals roundly rejected the firm's plan for A832 road closures.

This week's Wester Ross Round-up covers all the latest on that, plus:

🟡 Praise after improvements at Strathburn Care Home
🟡 Funding success for Poolewe community ownership bid
🟡 Applecross Community Company public consultation events on development plans
🟡 The Loch Ewe Brewing Company Ltd. release autumn event details.
🟡 Former church goes up for auction
🟡 Have a shot at wool spinning at Gairloch Museum doors open day.
...and lots more.

Read to the end to watch a fascinating short film about the Kyle line from 1974.

15/09/2025

Something to share?
The Gairloch & District Times submissions are now open for our next issue, which will be out on the 26th of September. If you have something for us to include, we’d love to hear from you! Deadline for submissions is this Friday, 19th September, at 10am.
Full info on how to reach us in comments.

Many thanks to Kristen Marie for this wonderful shot of the Northern Lights, taken at Torridon in early September.

📷 Photo credit: Kristen Marie

12/09/2025

The new Gairloch & District Times is out today: find it in one of our lovely local stores or sign up now as a paying subscriber to download it in glorious full technicolour.

Our lead story for this issue rounds up the results of a reader poll we carried out into the regulation of Short Term Lets. There's plenty more besides, including a packed What's On, and our local Directory full of essential information.

Issue 18 of the Gairloch and District Times is out now. Download it here, or find it local shops today.

11/09/2025

This weeks Wester Ross Round-up leads on news of a lengthy road closure proposed by SSEN Transmission at Dundonnell.

We want to hear your views about the proposals - we'll try and print some of them in the next issue of the paper.

Also in the WRRU:

🟡 A Radio Wester Ross chat with newly hired community energy officers.
🟡 Details of jobs with R.Wotherspoon Fencing Ltd, Kishorn Port Ltd and others.
🟡 Pizza and pasta news from the The Badachro Inn and The Old Inn
🟡 Mobile library van news from High Life Highland
..and lots more news you can use. 👉 https://gairlochtimes.org.uk/a835-closure-plans-and-library-vans-delayed/

08/09/2025

We hear the Coastguard have been putting on quite a show on Loch Gairloch today. If you managed to snap a pic, we'd love to see! Other sights from around Wester Ross in the last couple of weeks are of course most welcome too.

Pop your favourites in comments below. If you tell us 'permission to share' we may do just that.

Many thanks to Ian Johnstone for this magical shot submitted last week, of the Torridons seen across Loch Gairloch from Lonemore.
📷Photo credit: Ian Johnstone

04/09/2025

It’s Round-Up day! Catch up on all the latest in this week’s free online bulletin, including:

🟡 Gairloch High School exam success
🟡 The Screen Machine is coming to town
🟡 The A835 road works at Garve are timetabled to start soon (ish)

Plus much more!
Thank you to Thrive Therapy, sponsors of this week’s bulletin and to Chloe Hall of Seabed and Seashore Loch Ewe for our cover image of a jelly fish in Wester Ross waters.

Read to the end for a rousing rendition of Kishorn Commandos