The For Argyll Website reports today about the problems with broadband connections on Jura. A quote from the article:Argyll’s Isle of Jura has had no broadband connection for almost a week. The fault is proving difficult to trace and BT’s so-called Customer Services have pronounced that the problem lies with individual homes and is not a matter for their engineers. Surely … [Read more...] about Broadband Internet Problems on Jura
Archives for December 2008
Three Fatalities in Islay Car Crash
The Islay community is in mourning after three people - including a farmer and his young son - were killed in a road crash which took place in the afternoon of Tuesday 2nd December. Dougald MacTaggart, 38, and his son Jamie, 10, died when their pick-up truck was involved in a four-vehicle smash near his parents' house on Islay. A third man, Neil MacFadyen, 47, who worked on Mr … [Read more...] about Three Fatalities in Islay Car Crash
Difference between Jura Venison and Mainland Venison
This is not a lengthy account of Jura Venison, but merely a made up title for an article I found on the "The Age" website. The Age is an online as well as a magazine publishing company from down under in Australia. The author, Andrew Marshall, visited the Hebrides and wrote about Islay and Jura. I was specially interested in what he wrote about Jura, therefore a quote from the … [Read more...] about Difference between Jura Venison and Mainland Venison