10 April 2026 Issue 2673 © ULLAPOOL NEWS
The Village is waking up for the season – 2 Cruise boats seen in the past 7 days!
More Places have Re-Opened for the Season
Tea by the Sea & Elphin Tea Rooms
JoJos is back, Ceol na Mara too
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Elections for MSPs 7th May 2026
Hustings have been organised by the Community Council to be held in Ullapool Ferry Terminal on
Wednesday 22nd April 6.30 pm
** As usual prior to an election, the Ullapool News will be contacting each of the constituency candidates for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, offering them an opportunity to send in a half page submission for publication in a later issue.
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Extracts from Jill’s letter, our regular correspondent from Scoraig
The Adventures of a Housebound Crone.
So many things happening this week, I don’t know where to start! Dramas of wind, rain, thunder and lightening. Snow. Rainbows and sunshine. A crippledwindmill looking so forlorn. One of its blades shaggly and dangling. So an orgy of wood shavings for the Man as he carves a new blade. Tomorrow, he will discover if we need a new bearing. Luckily we have had enough power from the sun to supply our needs for electricity.
I make cups of tea and invent new ways of using up leftovers. ….
….. I have been mightily influenced by Rutger Bregman’s book Humankind which demonstrates that most people are actually kind. I want everyone to read it as I do believe that we are creating our world. It is in our hands the story we tell each other. Watching the recent series,’The Other Bennet Sister,’ I was pleased to see Mary chatting to the despised Mr Collins in the library. He shares with her that he has just read in Aristotle (written some three hundred BCE) that whether we are happy or not depends on ourselves…..,
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Extract From ANNAT (Baywatch)article, Noel Hawkins
The Whale was named “Roy “ after Roy MacGregor.
https://www.facebook.com/WesterRossMPA
The Wester Ross MPA page is meant for sharing news about the MPA area that extends form the village out to the back of the Summer Isles and takes in Little Loch Broom and Loch Ewe too. Hoping to share what it is, what’s happening in it, and look at what has worked and perhaps what hasn’t too, and see if there’s things that can help to make the seas even better and hopefully help fishing too.
We also used the page to promote the humpback whale naming competition. Lyndsay from the Scottish ID catalogue agreed to let us name the whale that was in over Christmas, and also Happy Whale, an international organisation that records and tracks humpbacks worldwide.
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The Village is waking up for the season – 2 Cruise boats seen in the past 7 days!
More Places have Re-Opened for the Season
Tea by the Sea & Elphin Tea Rooms
JoJos is back, Ceol na Mara too
*****
Elections for MSPs 7th May 2026
Hustings have been organised by the Community Council to be held in Ullapool Ferry Terminal on
Wednesday 22nd April 6.30 pm
** As usual prior to an election, the Ullapool News will be contacting each of the constituency candidates for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, offering them an opportunity to send in a half page submission for publication in a later issue.
*****
Extracts from Jill’s letter, our regular correspondent from Scoraig
The Adventures of a Housebound Crone.
So many things happening this week, I don’t know where to start! Dramas of wind, rain, thunder and lightening. Snow. Rainbows and sunshine. A crippledwindmill looking so forlorn. One of its blades shaggly and dangling. So an orgy of wood shavings for the Man as he carves a new blade. Tomorrow, he will discover if we need a new bearing. Luckily we have had enough power from the sun to supply our needs for electricity.
I make cups of tea and invent new ways of using up leftovers. ….
….. I have been mightily influenced by Rutger Bregman’s book Humankind which demonstrates that most people are actually kind. I want everyone to read it as I do believe that we are creating our world. It is in our hands the story we tell each other. Watching the recent series,’The Other Bennet Sister,’ I was pleased to see Mary chatting to the despised Mr Collins in the library. He shares with her that he has just read in Aristotle (written some three hundred BCE) that whether we are happy or not depends on ourselves…..,
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Extract From ANNAT (Baywatch)article, Noel Hawkins
The Whale was named “Roy “ after Roy MacGregor.
https://www.facebook.com/WesterRossMPA
The Wester Ross MPA page is meant for sharing news about the MPA area that extends form the village out to the back of the Summer Isles and takes in Little Loch Broom and Loch Ewe too. Hoping to share what it is, what’s happening in it, and look at what has worked and perhaps what hasn’t too, and see if there’s things that can help to make the seas even better and hopefully help fishing too.
We also used the page to promote the humpback whale naming competition. Lyndsay from the Scottish ID catalogue agreed to let us name the whale that was in over Christmas, and also Happy Whale, an international organisation that records and tracks humpbacks worldwide.
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