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What's in This Week's Oban Times? - 7th August 2024
Patrols to deter "mindless" vandalism at Oban shinty stadium, Kerrera islanders fed up over ferry breakdown "catastrophe", students struggle to find digs in a university town, discover who was champion of champions at the Lorn Show, why the Bunessan Show went into local legend, and what's happening at the Mull and Iona Sausage Roll Olympics.
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What's in This Week's Oban Times? - 31st July 2024
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In this week's Oban Times, we have a reaction after the bid to turn Loch Awe into a national park failed, we find out the cost of buying the town's Phoenix Cinema, and why an orange thing will be dangling from a helicopter over Kilmelford. Plus SAMS scientists have discovered 'dark oxygen' on the ocean floor, and scarecrows take over the Isle of Seil...
What's in This Week's Oban Times? - 24th July 2024
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The cost of a new Kidney Dialysis unit is revealed, Kintyre has a new councillor, changes are needed in childcare, a weekend of racing, and the continuing success of the highland games calendar. All of that and more in this week's Oban Times.
What's in This Week's Oban Times - 17th July 2024
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Plans for a huge power plant at Loch Awe, teams tackle an oil spill from a sunken fish farm boat off Mull, sniffer dog 'Barra' gets the animals' OBE, Oban FM's kit is staying in Oban, a new MP gets lost in a cupboard, and adventures at the Clipper Race and Tiree Music Festival, all in this week's Oban Times.
Douglas 'Doc' Macarthur's procession
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Douglas 'Doc' Macarthur's procession
What's In This Week's Oban Times - 10th July 2024
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It's the end of an era for Oban FM, drama from the election count, a Clipper Race yacht crew has a 'chop for charity', four cyclists raise an epic total after 460 miles, a Lochaber gymnast wins gold for tumbling, and a Barra singer voices a horror game. All that and more in this week's Oban Times...
What's In This Week's Oban Times - 3rd July 2024
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This week's Oban Times carries sad news about the tragic death of well-known Obanite The Doc -Douglas Macarthur. Police are still appealing for information on the incident that happened in George Street on June 27. Our sympathies go out to his family, friends and everyone affected. The housing future for Coll is looking brighter after an incredible offer by the couple who run the island's award...
What's In This Week's Oban Times? - 26th June 2024
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A jam packed edition of the Oban Times this week: Superband The Killers stopped by Appin's Old Inn for dinner, the HiTrans report on the Corran Ferry has finally released 11 months late, the race for Westminster is heating up, Gibraltar Street's new metalwork is talk of the town for all the wrong reasons, and much, much more.
Oban TSI hustings
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Full recording of the hustings hosted by Argyll & Bute Third Sector Interface on Monday June 24 2024. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction and opening statements 15:02 Strategy to ensure rural communities are properly resourced 24:33 Austerity 33:00 Wind energy and community wealth building 42:18 Impact of Brexit, how will you work with the EU? 56:51 Personal care and NHS funding 1:07:44 Maternity lea...
Oban Pride hustings 2024
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Full recording of the hustings organised by Oban Pride on Monday June 24, 2024. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction and opening statements 10:42 If elected, how will you ensure every LGBTQ person can be their authentic self 20:35 LGBTQ education 30:30 How will you protect and improve trans rights? 40:35 Health and social care 48:47 Conversion therapy 52:48 Oban Pride events
Isle of Mull hustings 2024
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Full recording of the Isle of Mull hustings 2024. Timestamps for different talking points: Introductions and Opening statements 00:0:00 Community led energy generation 11:00 Ferries 19:55 Mull and Iona's greatest challenge for sustainability 26:25 Are we better together or independent? 31:45 Mull Campus 37:40 Palestine 42:40 Poverty/national debt, should we tax the rich more? 48:55 Should expat...
What's in This Week's Oban Times? - 19th June 2024
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In this week's Oban Times, we met the First Minister to ask about big local issues. Mull and Oban have hustings coming up. Lismore could lose its hall. More Argyll cinemas fight for survival. It's crunch time for a Mull estate. Councillors reject an Oban 'park and stride' project. Stars emerge in the Ardnamurchan Mod. And Iona is partying in paradise!
What's in This Week's Oban Times? - 12th June 2024
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In this week's Oban Times: Oban Cinema could be on the brink of being saved, Oban remembers D-day, asbestos has been fly-tipped near a primary school in Lochaber, the Ross of Mull finally gets its internet back, Oban Pipe Band hits a high note, and much, much more.
What's in This Week's Oban Times? - 5th June 2024
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Lots in this week's Oban Times: hopes Oban’s Phoenix Cinema can rise from the ashes again, a 'holiday village' is facing growing objections, meet your election candidates, Bob puts Oban on the map, Mull's new helipad opens, Charities Day, Oban Mod, D Day commemorations, and deep breaths for a world freediving hopeful...
Charity parade 2024
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Charity parade 2024
What's In This Week's Oban Times - 29th May 2024
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What's In This Week's Oban Times - 15th May 2024
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Dunstaffnage Medieval Weekend 2024
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What's In This Week's Oban Times - 24th April 2024
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What's In This Week's Oban Times - 17th April 2024
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Mull helipad test
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Mull helipad test
What's In This Week's Oban Times - 4th April 2024
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  • @jakeharling73
    @jakeharling73 15 днів тому

    Brilliant Thanks George Mahood for the tip ;-)

  • @howdymartin6258
    @howdymartin6258 21 день тому

    Keep up the good work all -- a highlight of my week!

  • @ObanHighlander
    @ObanHighlander 26 днів тому

    He would have loved it and been very proud ❤

  • @nataliebruce5627
    @nataliebruce5627 28 днів тому

    Sad to hear about Oban FM closing down.

  • @Dbodell8000
    @Dbodell8000 Місяць тому

    One of a kind in the world.

  • @genxray
    @genxray Місяць тому

    produce the adults of the future???--- by stopping their puberty? and telling them to accept sexual kinks in public? you are nit wits, or you are pervs trying to hide behind the right GAYS and LESBIANS fought for.

  • @genxray
    @genxray Місяць тому

    Sounds like MENS rights matter and women should SHUT UP- right?---- WE hear you loud and clear, as well as you admitting to pushing this homophobic crap into schools. YOU are the bigots as you sit there with PRIDE. SHAME. As you silence the sane voices that oppose your crap, you just help the FAR far right also silence the sane and you, BECAUSE you want to accept everyone, without discussion. You want to bring everyone in, as you go to the new Pride events and SEE that it is NOT the LGB you seem to conflate this with. SHAME.

  • @end1of1dayz
    @end1of1dayz 2 місяці тому

    This years champion tosser 😅 is Ron Long😂😂 I can't stop laughing right now 😂

  • @haraldtheyounger5504
    @haraldtheyounger5504 2 місяці тому

    What the heck is going on; Tobermory Dental Surgery, empty chair, 2 years. I really need to know more. Did a patient die in it? Is it solely for spirit surgery? Have the hydraulics seized up? Come on, I need info. Why isn't the Oban Times available nationwide? 118 miles, on my mobility scooter, just a trip too far for my morning paper. I mean, my tea and toast would be cold by the time I got back.

  • @Michael-pn5lp
    @Michael-pn5lp 2 місяці тому

    The stolen Stone of Scone was recovered from Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950 ! On the Dead Sea Scroll's solar calendar, after the Vernal Equinox starting the next Biblical Year, it was placed on the altar in the ruins of Arbroath Abbey on the 11th April 1951. With a 21st March Vernal Equinox that year, this means that the Stone of Scone was placed on the altar of Arbroath Abby on the last seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: a Holy High Day ! So in the same BIBLICAL year: • 1951 was 3400 years and the 68th Jubilee after the Exodus from Egypt ! (Working with a 4BC birth of Christ) • Before the next Vernal Equinox King George VI died on the 6th of February 1951. • Queen Elizabeth II immediately ascended the throne - although only later coronated. i.e. The Stone of Scone was recovered in the Jubilee 7x7 49th year of 1950, and later placed on the High Altar of Arbroath Abby on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - in the Jubilee 50th year of 1951 ! The Declaration of Scottish Independence drafted at Arbroath Abby and dated the 6th April 1320, was also in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: The vernal equinox was the 20th March that year and the 7th April was the 4th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that year: the day of Christ’s resurrection on the Biblical annual calendar. So 631 years later (6+3+1=10), on the last 7th Day of Unleavened Bread, being a High Day, the Stone of Scone was placed on the High Alter in the ruins of that very same Arbroath Abby, wrapped in the “Saltire” or “Saint Andrews Cross” - the national flag of Scotland. Saint Andrew was the brother of Peter, and also an apostle and disciple of Christ. In the 1320 “Declaration of Arbroath” the Scott’s claimed to be Israelites who migrated from Egypt to Spain to Ireland and then to Scotland ! Legend has it that the Stone of Scone would sometimes groan when a king was crowned on it. It is now apparent that the Stone of Scone had a flaw in it. It had a faint fracture that could be the cause of the noise when some weightier kings were crowned sitting on it: the fracture gradually progressed further and further under the weight and hence the “groans”. When it was removed from beneath the coronation throne in Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950, it finally broke into two pieces in the process. The smaller piece was secretly returned to Scotland almost immediately and the larger piece was returned sometime later. Once re-assembled and re-enforced into the semblance of one stone, it was placed on the alter as described above. When it was later back in Westminster Abby, Queen Elisabeth II was coronated on a broken Stone of Scone - what is the significance and implication of that as we see history unfold ???.. ,, , , ,.

    • @michealcurrie8272
      @michealcurrie8272 2 місяці тому

      Aye .The best laid schemes for mice and men. RB

  • @user-mf1xc3zb2t
    @user-mf1xc3zb2t 3 місяці тому

    Visiting (again) in August. Oban #1.

  • @robsutherland5744
    @robsutherland5744 3 місяці тому

    What a fun event!

  • @margaretsmallallan28
    @margaretsmallallan28 3 місяці тому

    Great fun for all attending! .....Tich.

  • @BillyBobDingo1971
    @BillyBobDingo1971 3 місяці тому

    Cool. Love Oban.

  • @howdymartin6258
    @howdymartin6258 4 місяці тому

    Sandy and Kathy -- I try to watch every week and love every episode and love the views of Oban and listening to you updating us..... keep up the great work!

    • @TheObanTimes
      @TheObanTimes 3 місяці тому

      Thank you! We really appreciate the feedback :)

  • @keithrock939
    @keithrock939 4 місяці тому

    I came here in 1973 was told by lord Campbell I'd be safe here but I doubt it when ex thieving care who stole wealth and stuck Welsh sleepers in the area with stolen wealth many went to fort William and Oban. So I don't feel safe anywhere. But I can say this, those who stood against me and God are going to pay big time. Amen to that

  • @alexblue6991
    @alexblue6991 4 місяці тому

    Life boats bring into Britain thousands of illegal Immigrants they get hotels and meals and spending money while we already have a homeless problem

  • @FinlagganYT
    @FinlagganYT 5 місяців тому

    Council tax up by 10%. I’m going off grid, only way to avoid it.

  • @hajimetakahashi632
    @hajimetakahashi632 5 місяців тому

    wodering how much years it did take to demolition this building

  • @catzenhouse
    @catzenhouse 5 місяців тому

    "Annndd - See you next year!!"

  • @e.victoria5151
    @e.victoria5151 5 місяців тому

    Visited Oban for the first time recently and walked past the Oban Times building, which was a bit of a thrill 😊 Hope to visit longer during the summer months. Thank you!

  • @vanhooler358
    @vanhooler358 6 місяців тому

    I got married just outside Oban 12 years ago burns day 25/01/2012 at a castle just outside town, what a day that was 🤣😅🤣😆😅

  • @e.victoria5151
    @e.victoria5151 6 місяців тому

    Thank you for your work! Looking forward to visiting soon!

  • @TheSVgregor
    @TheSVgregor 7 місяців тому

    Merry Christmas to Oban! Nolllaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ur!

  • @NICO-mr4ll
    @NICO-mr4ll 7 місяців тому

    stupid ass helicopter sound

  • @thomasshepard6030
    @thomasshepard6030 8 місяців тому

    Great seeing the great western hotel I worked as a chef there 1972 to 1975

  • @mariapierce2707
    @mariapierce2707 8 місяців тому

    Thank you! 😍

  • @FinlagganYT
    @FinlagganYT 8 місяців тому

    I love that ferry. I’m glad to be named after the place called Finlaggan, on Islay And the ferry is named after the same place on Islay

  • @FinlagganYT
    @FinlagganYT 9 місяців тому

    My favourite CalMac ferry, it has the same name as me

  • @brucemckean2848
    @brucemckean2848 9 місяців тому

    But but but...I've checked my calendar and we don't do Remembrance Day until the day of remembrance? A different calendar in Oban? In Scotland? Whatever, as long as we Remember.

  • @ChrisM541
    @ChrisM541 9 місяців тому

    (with highland accent) THIS is how we do the fireworks in the highlands. 1 minute kaboom gives us more minutes in the pub.

    • @ZombieSazza
      @ZombieSazza 2 місяці тому

      As a Gael Highlander this is beyond accurate LMAO

  • @coolmacatrain9434
    @coolmacatrain9434 9 місяців тому

    0:35 Which Scottish accent is that?

  • @dorokhovea
    @dorokhovea 9 місяців тому

    That's better than 40 min of watching ))

  • @alexanderhunter6034
    @alexanderhunter6034 9 місяців тому

    "Promo sm" 😁

  • @user-sr4fc6qo6v
    @user-sr4fc6qo6v 10 місяців тому

    I do believe that the best description is a raging river.not a raving river !?

  • @seansamurai1981
    @seansamurai1981 10 місяців тому

    Good times. Was on there then

  • @snsonline1640
    @snsonline1640 10 місяців тому

    Aw lovely lovely lovely! Like a cup of warm Horrlicks. Great show - Nick x

  • @BHRoadStoriesBH
    @BHRoadStoriesBH 10 місяців тому

    I try to imagine what it must have been like for the first settlers to see such a beautiful landscape for the first time in their lives after growing up in that place...? absolutely awesome!! Thank you

  • @ronflynn5043
    @ronflynn5043 10 місяців тому

    is there a hospital in oban ?

  • @professorsnegnii_bars3526
    @professorsnegnii_bars3526 11 місяців тому

    Благодаря Дара О Бриен "Доза Юмора" я узнал об этом случае))))...

  • @1in1cog1nit1o1
    @1in1cog1nit1o1 11 місяців тому

    Well done you!!

  • @keithrock939
    @keithrock939 Рік тому

    I came there with lord Campbell after they change a towns name to Keith. I can't come back cos a evil welsh sleeper there. Placed by evil carer. God bless ❤️

  • @Johnstone72
    @Johnstone72 Рік тому

    Cool.

  • @thomasshepard6030
    @thomasshepard6030 Рік тому

    Beautiful picture of the great western hotel I worked there as a chef 1972 to 1975

  • @mariapierce2707
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  • @eveningstar3230
    @eveningstar3230 Рік тому

    god he is dire

  • @charleslouden6600
    @charleslouden6600 Рік тому

    The ferries are the scottish assembly's cash cow.brown envelopes passed around from business to the snp.

  • @piperbob2
    @piperbob2 Рік тому

    I enjoyed watching this - thank you !

  • @everchicken7829
    @everchicken7829 Рік тому

    Just found this banger this is mi aunts, cat poor blokes gettin on now tho