Eilidh’s trust helps young musicians with £50,000 fund

YOUNG musicians will benefit from a £50,000 funding scheme set up in memory of 14-year-old piper Eilidh MacLeod from Barra, who was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing. The Eilidh MacLeod Memorial Trust is inviting youth music groups across Scotland to apply for financial support to grow and develop their music lessons by emailing hello@eilidhstrust.org.uk…

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Raasay raising cash for hydro projects

ISLANDERS on Raasay are selling shares to raise £650,000 so they can build two hydro-electric schemes. The hydro projects on the Inverarish and Mine burns will together generate enough power for about 130 homes. Ross Gillies, a director of Raasay Community Renewables, the body behind the schemes, said: “We have raised over £300,000 in grants…

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Ardkinglas: The Biography of a Highland Estate

In her third book, Ardkinglas: The Biography of a Highland Estate, Christina Noble returns home to explore her roots. The story begins in 1905, when the estate she grew up on was built, and travels to the present. Her gained perspective grants her narration a bittersweet wisdom, but her love of the estate infects the…

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