Scottish mountain avalanche warnings direct to mobile phone
SportScotland’s Avalanche Information Service has just announced that the warnings it issues can now be transmitted to mobile phones. The risk assessments can be sent from five mountain areas:...
View ArticleYou Tube to be Channel 4′s iplayer
Chanel 4 has become the first broadcaster to put its ‘catch up’ programmes on You Tube.The service will be free and will include its most popular shows – available shortly after transmission, and...
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Bill Bailey’s Mull Birdwatching Bonanza on screen 28th January
Comedian Bill Bailey plays host to a rough and tough 6-part outdoor reality show, hitting Sky 1 and Sky i HD at 8.00pm on Thursdays, starting on 7th January 2010.Bill Bailey’s Birdwatching Bonanza is...
View ArticleKenny Logan tries to kick Beauly-Denny line into touch
Kenny Logan thinks as well as he dances – engagingly but without connecting up the limbs of an argument.Logan today publicly joined the ranks of the Beauly-Denny power line protesters. In the best of...
View ArticleSnow Show for Oban FM, hero of the hour as town gets blizzarded out
On Saturday evening, while For Argyll’s guest photographer, Rebecca Martin, was stuck in her car at Rest and Be Thankful (later to be freed by a snow plough and a friendly Landrover driver with a set...
View ArticleBBC One Show changes transmission date of Arctic Convoys item
Jacky Brookes of the Russian Arctic Convoy Museum project at Loch Ewe has just let us know that the BBC has moved the John Sergeant item on the Arctic Convoys from the One Show scheduled for 19th...
View ArticleCollaboration between two community radio stations a boost for Wester Ross
Interesting news has cone in from Wester Ross. The long-established Lochbroom FM radio station based in Ullapool has linked up with the Gairloch-based Two Lochs Radio to provide a new local radio...
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BBC ALBA screening Oscar nominated animation for Easter weeked
The Secret of Kells, a beautifully animated story about the power of imagination and faith, is to be broadcast on BBC ALBA this Easter weekend. It has been shortlisted for an Academy Award in the Best...
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BBC ALBA films Kevin Woods doing all 282 Munros in 98 days
[Update 11th June: photo locations detailed below] Many people who climb Scotland’s iconic Munros aim to ‘bag’ them all over a period of time – sometimes that takes a lifetime.21 year old Kevin Woods...
View ArticleBBC ALBA takes a humorous look at everything Glasgow
Synonymous with everything from shipbuilding to Irn-Bru, the rivalries of the beautiful game to the city’s own unique brand of humour and patter, Glasgow fuels endless dramas and documentaries with...
View ArticleMartin Briscoe: 29th July BBC Radio 4 on bandits in Lochaber
These particular bandits are not a matter of concern today, though – but are of historic interest.On Tuesday 29th July at 15.00, BBC Radio 4 [FM] is airing one of the Making History programmes which...
View ArticleBBC ALBA and STV pick up a little know Scottish women’s contribution to the...
Two days ago, on 29th October one hundred years ago, 1914, Turkey – the Ottoman Empire – entered World War 1 on the side of the Central Powers and against the Allied Powers, of which one was the...
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BBC ALBA: The impact of World War I on Hebridean communities through the...
Gillean Grinn / The Handsome Lads is to be transmitted by BBC ALBA on 11th November from 9pm-10pm. One hundred years on, Gillean Grin tells the story of the death of a Scottish soldier and, through...
View ArticleBute Community Power secures grid connection via SSE
Bute Community Power [BCP] is delighted in announcing that it has secured a grid connection offered by SSE. The grid connection is essential for the success of their wind turbine project to be able to...
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