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THANK YOU…..to D&E Coaches for running the 61 bus service to Dingwall/Inverness during the summer school holidays. It made such a difference to a lot of local people.
We hope it was financially viable for you and that you will consider operating the same service during the October holidays….
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Anna Bhàn: New Album & Tour from Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton
Release Date: Friday 4th October, Shadowside Records
Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton, are both well established and celebrated Scottish musicians, they are also cousins. Their mothers hailing from Achnahaird, Coigach in the Northwest Highlands, where Mairearad was also brought up.

They have come together to celebrate and remember their Great-Great-Grandmother Anna Bhàn’s involvement in the successful women-led Coigach resistance* (see below) of 1852/53 during the Highland Clearances, the album is inspired by recent community plans to build a sculpture in honour of these women.
With songs in both Gaelic and English and featuring pipes, accordion, harp, piano and viola, Mairearad and Rachel’s award-winning compositional styles merge to create something truly unique and personal, that both reflects their response to the events of the past and their relationship with the place and the people of Coigach in the present day.

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Stephen Mackenzie Leaps into Action….
At this year’s Scottish Senior Athletics Championships held at Grangemouth on Sunday 18th August, Stephen took the Men’s Long Jump Title with a new personal best of 7.92m.
This is the 2nd longest jump by a Brit this year, behind Olympian and Stephen’s former training partner in Oklahoma University, Jacob Fincham Dukes.
Thank you to local Sponsors Alastair & Iris Fraser for their continued support.

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