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Battle to keep cruise ship tourists in Oban 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
As a row of buses lined up to escort passengers from the cruise ship MS Albatros, anchored in Oban Bay on Thursday August 22 2013, away from the town, a group in Oban says it is working hard to ensure...
Seventy-year-old Catalina flies over Oban 27 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm
The Hawker Project 2013 Circuit of Britain team brought their Imperial War Museum Duxford-based Catalina to Oban during their tour around the coast. The amphibian plane flew over Oban and was based a...
Oban Sunday league footballers sought 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
A registration night is being held on Wednesday August 28 from 6-8pm in the function room at Atlantis Leisure in Oban for anyone interested in playing football in a fun, safe environment on a Sunday m...
Slow start to Oban’s highland games 26 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm
THERE was a nervy start to this year’s Argyllshire Gathering, as Mossfield seemed to fill more slowly than usual because of delayed games traffic on the A85. But come the afternoon the hill and the s...
Oban golfer selected for GB team 22 Aug 2013 | 10:55 am
Seventeen-year-old Oban Robert MacIntyre’s stock continues to rise after he was selected for a Great Britain team to take on Europe for the Jacques Leglise Trophy. Read about how Robert found out abo...
Women living with disability fight for support 22 Aug 2013 | 10:45 am
Women in Lochaber living with disability are to take their campaign for better support services to Inverness and Holyrood. Follow their story in The Oban Times, August 22 2013 – also available on lin...
Tobermory Lifeboat gala day of celebrations 21 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
Tobermory Lifeboat Gala Day’s celebrations included a presentation to two members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and more than £2,000 being raised on the day. Read more about this...
Bankers to work for Oban charity shop 21 Aug 2013 | 10:13 pm
Three Oban bankers will give up two days of work to volunteer in the town’s Mary’s Meals charity shop – and raise money for the charity at the same time. Read all about it in The Oban Times, August 2...
Tiree’s seas prove a step in the cold too far 21 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
Endurance swimmer Anna Wardley has pulled out of her bid to swim around Tiree after the biting cold water became too much for the 37-year-old. She had to abandon her attempt with eight miles to go. ...
Sinking feeling for some at Oban raft race 19 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
There were scarey rafts, sinking rafts, tennis rafts, men-in-tights rafts and a lifeboat raft among the participants in this year’s Great Oban Bay Raft Race, organised by Oban and lorn Lions Club and ...
