The Oban Times

Lochaber under 14s rugby welcomed Ross-Sutherland, Oban and Lochgilphead to Banavie for a Midi rugby tournament.

Scottish Water has promised to carry out repairs to the Main Street sewerage pipe in Tobermory to stop it leaking into the sea.

Mull islanders are to drive forward the Tour of Mull Rally after the previous organiser 2300 Club decided against holding the event on the island this year.

Caroline MacIntyre, widow of cycling champion Jason MacIntyre, acknowledged Highland Council's condolences given by the authority's solicitor Jackie Watt on the final day of the fatal accident inquiry into her husband's death in Fort William.

South Lochaber residents have backed a plan to transform the mothballed Glencoe Hospital into a centre fro community enterprises.

Spectators at Fort Willam's An Aird witnessed a spectacular sight - which had nothing to do with the way their team was playing.

A plan for transporting parts to Argyll's largest windfarm near Loch Awe is causing alarm in surrounding communities.

Two Gary Innes goals helped Fort William shinty team to an opening day of the season victory over Oban Camanachd at An Aird.

Haghill Sports Centre in Glasgow was the venue for the Premier Division Postal United versus Oban Saints football match, with Saints returning home victorious.

Workers at Yeoman Glensanda quarry, Morvern, are said to be raging after being told they will receive no bonuses for 2009 and a pay freeze in 2010.

A new system for organising respite care in Argyll is being rushed in, according to a prominent group representing carers' centres.

Donald Cameron of Pitlochry, Perthshire, submitted this flashback picture of members of the Onich Royal Observer Corps at the observation post on Cuilcheanna Hill during World War II.

Parents at a meeting in North Uist to discuss school closures ended in anger because some of the promised representatives of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar failed to turn up.

Records tumbled as the Argyll final of the sports hall athletics took place at Atlantis in Oban and Mull boys took almost a clean sweep of individual titles. To view more photos from the athletics click here

Oban Lorne Rugby Club were on winning form against Clydebank at Glencruitten despite Clydebank taking the lead.

An Oban heroin addict has been found guilty by an Oban jury of supplying heroin, despite claiming it was for his own use only.

Oban Community Council chairman Fred Hall was travelling to Chilean capital Santiago by bus when the massive earthquake struck Chile. At home his wife had an anxious wait to hear if her husband was safe.

A dedicated base for delivering chemotherapy services in the Dr MacKinnon Memorial Hospital at Broadford on Skye has been welcomed by staff and cancer support agencies.

Tributes have been paid to father-of-four and Lochgilphead man Lachlan McKellar who was killed on a road accident last week on the Oban to Lochgilphead road.

A south Lochaber community company, which is balloting the community on whether or not the old Glencoe Hospital should be bought over by the community for its use, says that Ballachulish Community Council, which is against the proposal, is interfering in the process by putting up posters in the area.