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Thursday, 26th November 2009

Isle of Gigha

Journey's end WHO LIVES IN A HOUSE LIKE THIS? Achamore House – The Big House, to locals – is a rambling baronial mansion full of warm wooden panelling and vast, airy rooms, set amid 52 acres of gardens belonging to the community of Gigha.

We'd have community spirit on tap in our pub FOR most folk, buying their local pub would be nothing more than a pipe dream. But one city action group are attempting to do just that, and they hope it will lead to good times for their whole community.

Islanders becoming 'victims of their own success' following buy-out PEOPLE living on Gigha who bought their own island face becoming victims of their own success, according to a new report.

Five years on and God's Isle reaps its rewards AFTER decades of decline, the people of the Hebridean island of Gigha took things into their own hands, and it has really paid off.

Islanders celebrate start of new homes

Gigha lands windfall with communal turbines

Gigha to opt out by harvesting wind power

Land fund lottery cash dries up

Payback time for islanders' dream

US buyer brings business to Gigha

A sweet expansion for buy-out island

Gigha island to be put on market

Gigha islanders set to land interest windfall

Projects herald rebirth of Gigha community

Challenges ahead as Gigha's residents get down to business

Island's plan for first new homes in 25 years is 'crucial for future'

Gigha asks £600,000 for former laird's home

Get a bit of Gigha here, we need £400,000

Gigha cairn unveiled

Gigha’s designs on tartan

Former laird of Gigha jailed for plot to have ex-girlfriend and lover killed

Chance to ‘buy a bit of Gigha’ as trust aims to recoup cost of island idyll

‘There is a new sense of purpose in the island'

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