Community Land Scotland, the representative body of Scotland’s community land owners has published economic indicators data of community ownership. The report demonstrates remarkable results showing that community ownership can out-perform...
The long awaited final report of the Scottish Government Land Reform Review Group is recommending ways of helping the country’s communities, rural and urban, achieve the First Ministers Target of...
The annual Colonsay Spring Festival, which finished Mid May – saw large numbers of locals and visitors alike getting up close and personal with the Island flora and fauna, and...
An exhibition featuring the stories of the men who left Colonsay to fight in the First World War never to return is underway on the island. Entitled ‘Colonsay Remembers’ the...
Barry McMichael from Largs captured this stunning view of Loch Fada earlier this month
Bob and Alison liked this so much they thought they would share it with Corncrake readers. If you have a recipe you thinks deserves to be shared please email colonsayldohannah@gmail.com...
The piershed at ferry time is the place to find out what’s going on – sometimes the stories are even true! The piershed is the tale – its refurbishment is...
Politics is show business for ugly people opined Texas Political consultant Bill Miller in 1991. He was , I am sure, merely echoing the distaste for organised politics that exists across...
Each month the Corncrake is going to invite someone with Colonsay connections to give us an insight into who they are and why they’re here. First up, after a bit...
Following on the Community Land Scotland report the Corncrake asked the convener of the Gigha Heritage Trust, community owners of the island just to the North of the Kintyre peninsula...
Rangers-mad man about town Angus MacPhee is to make the ultimate sacrifice to raise money for the favourite cause of his recently departed friend Davy Sutherland. Wee Davy organised the...
There is, just to the West side of the 18th green of the Isle of Colonsay Golf Course, a large stone lying between many a golfer and a satisfactory finish...
For the fifth year running the RSPB Seabird Tracking and Research (STAR) team has returned to Colonsay for the summer months. This year the team consists of Tessa Cole, who...
Three new faces will be at Monday evening training sessions at the fire station as Fire Scotland increases it’s team on the island. Phil “on the hill” Jones, Matthew “Cammy”...
There is a moment in everyone's life when they have the ultimate realization... an epiphany if you will. They realize that beyond everything that this world has to offer, beyond...
The CCDC held its Annual General Meeting on Thursday evening....
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Published On: Jul 20, 2018The Front Page – July 2018
Though the not-quite-a-drought time eventually ended, summer did not part, as it might have done,...
Published On: Jun 6, 2018The Front Page – June 2018
The warm dry spell that spread across the whole country in late spring and extended...
Published On: May 3, 2018The Front Page – May 2018
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