Barra lifeboat rescues BBC ALBA’s Niall Iain Macdonald from Children in Need...
BBC ALBA’s presenter, Niall Iain Macdonald was on a marathon rowing challenge in aid of the Children in Need appeal. He was on a one hundred mile pull north, running the length of the east coast of the...
View ArticleLondon 2012: how Britain came to feel good about itself
These have been Sebastian Coe’s games.He drove the successful campaign to get the 2012 Olympic Games for Britain. From that award onwards, he has wrestled the nation to the floor to make the Games the...
View ArticleParalympics start next week
With the Opening Ceremony on Thursday 29th August, the 2012 Paralympics Games begin in action the following day, Friday week, 30th August.‘Paralympics’ means ‘parallel Olympics’ and does not, as many...
View ArticleGold post box for Aviemore and Scottish Parliamentary motion for Paralympian...
No parochialist, Dave Thompson, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch has congratulated the entire mixed coxed fours rowing team on their Gold Medal on Sunday afternoon at Eton Dorney.Team members are...
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Iain McCallum: the human bridge between Campbeltown and Heroes Challenge UK
Take your pick – the Campbeltown man with the Welsh wife, Sal, he stayed away from the ‘wee toon’ to marry and live with in South Wales; the awesome kilted, Jock-rock rugby supporter [he did say 'I...
View ArticleHeroes Challenge UK on way to Campbeltown
The Heroes Challenge UK team – raising money for Help for Heroes – left Oban this morning on a 107 mile cycle ride to Campbeltown.They should be arriving in Campbeltown around 18.00 tonight – and will...
View ArticleTobermory lifeboat on two shouts, one that ‘makes the blood run cold’
Last Tuesday night, 23rd July, Tobermory RNLI’s volunteer crew were diverted from their weekly training exercise to respond to a yacht in difficulty.The Severn Class lifeboat, Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsey,...
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Crazy Brave: Niall Iain Macdonald and 3 months alone in a rowing boat across...
Niall Iain Macdonald – whose family heritage runs from Barra, to Stornoway to Inverness – is a man whose sea-going exploits we have reported before.Just over two years ago, in November 2011, the BBC...
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Niall Iain Macdonald on count down for 3,400 mile single handed NY2SY TransAt...
It’s hard for the less courageous of us even to imagine what travelling endlessly towards a flat horizon 3,400 miles away is like, never mind dealing with the range of eventualities that will lie...
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Pens drawn: two months and counting to Tarbert Viking Festival
Is this a sign that the residents of Tarbert are identifying with their fellows in Orkney and Shetland and preparing to negotiate devolved powers for the beautiful bayside fishing and sailing village...
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Andy Mahon: a photo-by-photo tribute to Draken Harald Hårfagre as she arrives...
Well she made it, maybe not fully intact [minus her mast] - but a magnificent sight, none the less.Draken Harald Hårfagre took her pilot [Alan] shortly after 07.30 this morning, 17th July, arriving...
View ArticleAndy Mahon: Draken departure from Mersey weather delayed
The wind speed here on the Mersey today was over 25 knots. The team on the replica Viking warship, Draken Harald Hårfagre, had said anything over 20 knots would mean calling off their departure for 24...
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