Argyll’s Isle of Ulva and Christopher Foster’s Ulva International…
It’s a striking name for a business. There are only two other uses of the name. It’s the botanical name for sea lettuce and it’s the name of the Isle of Ulva, the small, private, tarmac-less island on...
View ArticleCheck out Ulva website’s 360 degree camera shots
The website for the Isle of Ulva has a neat idea: a partial map of the island – the section facing Mull – with camera positions marked at strategic places. Clicking on any camera and moving the mouse...
View ArticleThe closure of Ulva Primary on Mull… how bankers blew up island life
All cut-back roads lead to the doors of the bankers who have so successfully avoided responsibility for their part in the swingeing cuts to services which will affect all of Scotland. The closure of...
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Ulva: the marriage of history, culture, school, community
Ulva and Ulva Ferry – how many people elsewhere in Argyll knew much of these places before ‘Ulva’ became known as the name of one of the 26 schools (now 25) Argyll and Bute council hopes to close in...
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Cycling for Argyll’s schools: Ulva’s Somerset Charrington
Ulva School, in the far west of the Isle of Mull, was on the first list of rural primary schools in Argyll which the council proposed to close.Ulva School is the community – because it is the school...
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Itinerary: Cycle for Schools
Before we get to the itinerary for Ulva’s Somerset Charrington’s great Cycle for Schools adventure, it’s worth passing on a fabulous suggestion from one of our readers posted as a comment from ‘School...
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Cycle for Schools: Saturday 14th May, leaving home
This was Somerset Charrington at 11.00am this morning (14th May 2011), riding away from home at Treshnish Point, near Ulva on the west of Mull, headed for Craignure in the north east, to catch the...
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Cycle for Schools: tracking Somerset
Saturday 21st May 2011: Today was journey’s end for Somerset Charrington, at Luss School and Luss did both Somerset and the entire adventure proud. The rain had its eye on those who had gathered to...
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Inch Kenneth: Mitfords and mysteries
The recent announcement of the possible occasional opening to small numbers of the public of Inch Kenneth island has made a lot of people aware of its existence for the first tine.A place with an early...
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About Argyll offers an active alternative to the Christmas slump
In the middle of December, surrounded by crowds of other desperate shoppers, a walking holiday probably isn’t the main thing on anyone’s mind.But Christmas Day will come and go, leaving the...
View ArticleLocal Development Officer for Ulva Community Trust
Deadline for applications; 20th January.USCA (the Ulva Ferry Community Association) is delighted to have been given the opportunity to put one of their main aims into action through the offer of...
View ArticleThe attempt to downgrade the impact on a community of the loss of its school
Mr Sneddon says: ‘The primary concern should be the educational benefits to children and young people. The likely effect of the school closure on the local community should not be allowed to have more...
View ArticleUlva School Community Association: issues and opportunities
Ulva School Community Association (USCA) on the Isle of Mull is exploring the challenges ahead for a dispersed rural community – and wondering if USCA might become a role model community.On 30 March...
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Julian Penney: Sea kayak expedition on west coast of Mull
It was Good Friday, 7am at Oban Ferry Terminal. The Isle of Mull ferry sat in the calm waters of her berth in Oban Bay waiting for the Easter rush to get under way.The sea kayaking team met up in high...
View ArticleMull BID: packed house for Tobermory meeting
The group hosting the public meeting last night [1st March] on the Mull, Iona and Ulva proposal to establish a Business Improvement District [BID’ for the entire island community, have issued the press...
View ArticleThe Mull BID stand-off
The ‘NO Confidence’ group of businesses, opposing the Mull, Iona and Ulva Business Improvement District [BID] proposal and who hosted the standing room only public meeting at Aros Hall in Tobermory on...
View ArticleMull says a big NO to BID
[Updated below} The ballots for the proposed Mull Business Improvement District [BID] were counted yesterday morning [22nd March] – and our broadband outage made us made to bring you the news earlier...
View ArticleOban Lifeboat in search for missing person off Ulva
Oban’s RNLI Lifeboat, the all weather Trent class Mora Edith Macdonald, took part in the search yesterday morning, 17th May, for a man missing in the vicinity of the island of Ulva on Mull’s west...
View ArticleTobermory lifeboat in search for man missing off Ulva
[Updated 19th May below] Yesterday, 17th May, Tobermory RNLI lifeboat was involved in an operation searching for a missing man off the island of Ulva, on the west coast of the Isle of Mull. Tobermory’s...
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