The Oban Times

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.

A 44 year-old man has died following a road crash on the A816 near to Kilninver on Wednesday 24 February 2010. Around 2pm the man was driving his Land Rover Defender on the A816 near Kilninver, when the vehicle was involved in a collision with a tanker lorry being driven by a 43-year-old man. Both men were taken to hospital in Oban but the 44-year-old died shortly after. The tanker driver was later released.

The bodies of two men were recovered by Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team on Thursday evening, February 24, after being swept off a ridge near Buchaille Etive Mor and being carried almost 1,500 metres down the mountain. A third man escaped and walkers behind raised the alarm and trekked down the mountain checking the avalanche area until they found the bodies.

Anglers converged on Loch Etive, north of Oban, at the weekend to take part in the annual RNLI Species Hunt Angling Competition - despite the freezing temperatures.

A public meeting attended by parents of pupils at Lochmaddy Primary School, which is under threat of closure by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, rounded on councillors for refusing to come out on their side.

The Royal National Mòd will go to Paisley in 2013 - at the third attempt by the town to be included in the national mod circuit.

A man was jailed at Oban Sheriff Court for throwing a watch which struck a patient in a wheelchair on the face at Lorn and Islands Hospital, Oban.

Ina Hope has spent more than three-quarters of a century in Fort William and she celebrated her 100th birthday with friends and family in Caol Community Centre.

Charlie King talks about his love of the village he decided to make home in the 1960s when just 17 years old.

Another exciting day of football took place at the Oban High School pitch in the third week of the Oban Express Primary Football League.