Archive for January 10th, 2012

The Tiree Branch of the Scottish Crofting Federation have been in touch with Keith Brown, Transport Minister in the Scottish Government, with regard to the removal of RET on Commercial Vehicles on ferries. The plan is to replace RET with an amended system of the former “bulk discount rate” which had been in place prior… »

This young turtle was found freshly dead on 9th December, the day after the big storm, and was originally identified as a Loggerhead. However, experts have now re-identified it as Britain’s 36th record of Kemp’s Ridley Turtle (Lepidochelys kempii). A few days later, a second individual was found on a beach in Ceredigion, West Wales…. »

O2 customers on Tiree are still without a mobile phone signal following the storm of 8th December!!! Despite numerous complaints from customers, as well as the involvement of Councillor Mary-Jean Devon and a feature on the radio, O2 have failed to recognise or repair the problem with the transmitter. It now seems that O2 have… »