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TWO Staffin couples, including a pair of fleet-footed Foxes from Maligar, are getting ready to rumba at a Skye dance extravaganza.
Couples from the Taobh Sear are starring in the popular “DAES Does Strictly”event later this month. Husband-and-wife John and Disie Fox have been in rehearsals for several months along with seven other island dance partnerships. The Foxes are looking to fox-trot their way to the Strictly Skye title and electrician John will be looking to hotwire his quickstep.
Valtos guest house owner Rachel Morrison and ...

UPDATES on Staffin Community Trust’s main projects will be provided later this month. 
SCT’s 2016 Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday night in Staffin. The AGM will include the latest progress on SCT’s work and an overview of the last 12 months. These include the Staffin Slipway, the affordable housing development, the Staffin Crofters’ Memorial, the Storr, the proposed extension to the Skye Ecomuseum Ceumannan and the outdoor Gaelic in the Environment courses hosted by SCT. The annual report on SCT accounts ...

PRICES at Skye’s biggest lamb sale of the season this week were markedly down from the first trade only a fortnight earlier.
At Dingwall and Highland Mart’s sale last month almost 2,900 sheep went through the Portree ring with an average price of £44.90, which was £2.84 up on the same sale in 2015. However, on Monday (5.9) – at what is traditionally the bigger of the island’s two main lamb sales – the average price had slumped dramatically by £7.41. 
The average price was ...

STAFFIN’S scenery is the number 1 natural outdoor attraction in the UK – ahead of Snowdonia and Glencoe – the world’s biggest travel website has revealed.
The Quiraing, which attracts thousands of people each year, came first in the ratings for the “best-rated natural outdoor attraction in the UK”, it was revealed by Trip Advisor on the AOL home page. http://travel.aol.co.uk/photos/tripadvisor-best-natural-outdoor-attractions-uk/423160/?ref=21457814
The Quiraing, which has been the setting for major films, television programmes, various commercials and even pop videos in recent times, now has more than ...

LAMBS reared in Staffin were among the leading prices at the island’s first sale of the season. 
In one of the most crucial days in the calendar for Staffin crofters, Dingwall and Highland Marts sold more than 2,870 lambs and ewes in Portree ring on Monday (22.8).
The Staffin lambs were coveted by buyers despite the poor weather in the latter part of the summer and is testament to the district’s reputation for producing quality store lambs. The average price was £44.90 – which was ...

THE names of the Staffin men who made the ultimate sacrifice can be read more clearly on the district’s war memorials after work was completed. 
A specialist power wash and the re-lettering of the fallen soldiers’ names on Staffin’s two war memorials – by the Kilmartin River and at Valtos – was carried out last week.
Stewart Bain and Ronnie Sutherland of Dingwall-based monumental sculptors John Hood & Son were in Staffin on Tuesday (16.8.16) to carry out the work at the memorials, which remembers ...

TWO well-respected Staffin businesses are the latest additions to join the district’s online business listings this week. 
The Staffin Campsite and Kilmartin Restaurant are now featured on the Staffin Business Directory http://staffin-trust.co.uk/staffin-directory which showcases what there is on offer on the east-side of Trotternish. It has steadily grown since its launch and features a  range of businesses from shops, places to eat and stay, or to and purchase gifts (and watch them being made) and specific services, such as construction. Their inclusion means there are now 12 Staffin businesses featured.

FORTY Staffin residents gave their views on the Old Man of Storr site at a special community drop-in event at the weekend.
A project team is carrying out an options appraisal of the site Staffin Community Trust (SCT) and held a consultation event in Staffin Hall on Saturday. 
Richard Heggie of Urban Animation and Sam Foster Architects and SCT representatives discussed the project with attendees, highlighted the issues which were highlighted in the community consultation carried out in November last year and invited people to plot a revised layout using a model of the site. The people who attended ...

FORGET about the countdown to the Games in Brazil…
There’s only one Games that counts.
And next week is showtime for the Staffin Ladies’ tug o’war team at the theatre of dreams itself – The Lump.
Fresh from their spectacular 2015 triumph the squad is preparing to go into battle once again at the Skye Highland Games and their rivals should beware. The Staffin women are currently in the midst of an arduous pre-games programme of intensive altitude training on the Trotternish Ridge, which has involved winning a practice pull ...

 
STAFFIN residents are invited to attend a drop in community event this weekend hosted by the consultant team investigating potential improvements to the visitor site at the Old Man of Storr.
Staffin Community Trust (SCT) announced last month that a consortium led by Hazel Allen of Dingwall-based Athena Solutions, Richard Heggie of Urban Animation and Sam Foster Architects, were awarded the contract to carry out an Options Appraisal of Highland Council-owned land at the Storr. The team is now looking ...

A HOUSE, which could suit a family, has gone on the market in Staffin.
The owner of the three-bedroomed bungalow at 5 Culnacnoc, which is about four miles south of Staffin Primary School, is looking for offers of more than £175,000. 

Situated next to the Staffin-Portree A855 road, the house is being marketed by Inverness-based estate agents, Murchison Law.
More details about the house, here: http://www.murchisonlaw.co.uk/property-listings-page/property/107-the-bungalow.html
Staffin Community Trust is currently working with its partners on providing new housing in the district. A ...

STAFFIN’S biz listings have welcomed the 10th local business to join the burgeoning online directory.
MacKenzie Stores, which is a shop, hot food takeaway – and the only fuel station in the Taobh Sear – is the latest business to be featured on the Staffin Community Trust website http://staffin-trust.co.uk/shops-2 

The SCT want to help promote ALL the businesses in the community and boost the local economy by promoting them online via its popular website. SCT had more than 3,600 page views in the last four weeks and ...

MONDAYS are set to get a lot more brighter as talented Highland dancers from Trotternish and the rest of Skye stage a series of summer ceilidhs.
Dannsairean An Eilein Sgitheanaich (DAES) is a group based in Skye under the tutelage of Karen Campbell from Kilmaluag. 
Karen has more than 70 dancers from all over the island in her group which competes at events all over Scotland. 

Locals and visitors will get several opportunities to see the DAES girls for themselves for the next few Monday nights in Portree, the island’s capital. The group is performing at shows which ...

THE community newsletter round up from Staffin is out now.  It includes all the latest news from the Taobh Sear including a special anniversary for Staffin Stores, all the latest updates from the Gym, Staffin Primary School and the Flodigarry and Staffin community trusts, a bumper line up of tutors at Fèis Thròndairnis and a preview of the Staffin Sheepdog Trials. There is also an update on Staffin’s key contribution to Skye Camanachd Ladies’ excellent season to date. A pictorial preview below.
The newsletter can be downloaded here: Staffin Summer 2016 ...

STAFFIN and the Trotternish peninsula will be coming to the small screen this autumn, as filming for a popular BBC series is now in the can.
With a Victorian guidebook in his hands, presenter Paul Murton follows in the footsteps of the first tourists to Scotland, travelling the country and tracing the changes that have taken place since the birth of Scottish tourism 200 years ago.
Paul, who was brought up in Argyll, is the face of the BBC series “Grand Tours of the ...