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BBC News
10-07-2025
- BBC News
Teenager hurt in crash dies a week after achieving Ben Nevis dream
A teenager who was critically injured in a crash in Glen Coe has died in hospital - a week after achieving his dream of climbing Ben Larmour, 18, was a passenger in a car involved in a collision with a bus on the A82, near the village of Glencoe, at about 11:15 on Thursday 3 Larmour, along with the driver of the car, were taken to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital - where he died family said he was returning home after climbing the UK's highest mountain, and had recently celebrated his 18th birthday. 'Best days' His family said: "Our beautiful baby boy Jake was taken from us after what was supposed to be one of the best days of his life. "He'd been and climbed Ben Nevis which was a dream of his and was on his way home to tell us all about it."They added: "Words can't describe how we are feeling, we were only celebrating his 18th birthday just over a week ago and now we are arranging his funeral. "Fly high our darling Jakey."Police Scotland has not said where Mr Larmour was from and his family have asked for privacy. Police have appealed for Ewan Calder said: "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Jake at this very difficult time."Our inquiries into this crash are still ongoing and I would urge anyone who was travelling on the A82 around 11:15 on 3 July and saw what happened to contact us."Likewise, if you saw either vehicle prior to the collision and have information which may assist our investigation, please get in touch."He added: "I'd also ask drivers with dashcam footage to review this and bring anything of significance to our attention."
BBC News
04-07-2025
- Automotive
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Two in critical condition after Glen Coe crash
A crash involving a bus and a car on the A82 near Glen Coe has left two people in a critical condition in accident happened at Tigh a Phuirt at about 11:15 on Thursday closing the road for about eight driver and the passenger in the Seat Leon car were taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where they remain in a critical were no reports of any other injuries.
BBC News
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
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Historic inn at the heart of Scottish mountaineering up for sale
A 300-year-old former coaching inn that has been at the heart of Scottish mountaineering has been put up for inn is thought to have been established in the early 18th Century when a drovers road was built to take sheep to market, not long after the Glen Coe massacre happened nearby. Over the years the Clachaig Inn has hosted Victorian climbing pioneers, seen the birth of the mountain rescue service, and become a hub for live folk music and a destination for Harry Potter fans. The business is being sold by Ed and Guy Daynes, who took over the business from their parents Peter and Eileen Daynes in 1990, six years after they bought the inn. Ed Daynes told BBC Scotland News the family had kept the "Highland hospitality" tradition for hikers and visitors from all walks of life. A 1906 meeting of Scottish Mountaineering Club at the Inn included Sir Hugh Munro, who categorised country's tallest peaks, William Naismith, who made the first recorded ski expedition in Scotland and the pioneering climber Norman resident Hamish MacInnes, a renowned mountaineer and inventor who died in 2020, formed the Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team at a meeting in the bar in 1962. Owners and staff have always been part of the team and they have been holding free winter mountain safety lectures for 40 years. "For mountaineers, it's always been a place to rest up or meet people - it's a great leveller," he said. "It wasn't a wealthy sport, it was an escape for workers in the Glasgow shipyards."We've continued that over the years - it doesn't mater who you are or what you do, everyone is welcome." That welcome was extended in 2003 to a film crew who spent six months on site working on the third film based on JK Rowling's wizarding books. Sets for the Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban were created near the bottom of nearby Clachaig location for Hagrid's Hut, 200m up a rough path from the inn, has become a site of pilgrimage for fans of the films, despite no evidence of the film set remaining. "At the time we thought it was just another film," Mr Daynes said. " Even now it's as busy as it's even been, or busier - it's incredible. "People are still coming every day to see a slightly elevated bit of land with a view."Other guests come to the glen for the live trad music in the Boots Bar every Saturday, and can be seen walking in a torchlit parade to the local campsite and hostel down the road at the end of the night. While the inn is now more likely to see visitors arrive in cars or camper vans, it was once a rest stop for people travelling with their sheep from the Highlands to markets in Perth and further Daynes said he had discovered the old coach road was being built in the 1700s, when sheep farming became more established in the years following the 1692 massacre. Almost 40 members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed after soldiers, led by Capt Robert Campbell of Glen Lyon, were ordered to attack them.A plaque at the inn entrance reads "No Hawkers, no Campbells"."It was put there in the 1960s by a previous owner who was a MacDonald, and we decided we would keep it," Mr Daynes admitted. "It still causes quite a bit of interest."Members of the Campbell clan are not barred from the venue, he added. The Clachaig Inn is being sold along with the Daynes' The Grog & Gruel alehouse in Fort William, by Christie & Co for £4.5m.
BBC News
06-05-2025
- BBC News
Inquiry into climbers' deaths in Glen Coe expected in August
Inquiry into climbers' deaths expected in August Concerns were raised for three climbers after they failed to return from a climb on Saturday 5 August A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the deaths of three climbers in Glen Coe is set to take place this summer. Graham Cox, 60, Hazel Crombie, 64, and David Fowler, 39, died on Aonach Eagach in August 2023. The ridge is popular with climbers and one of the narrowest in mainland Britain, stretching for six miles (9.7km) and climbing to a height of 3,608ft (1,100m). Sheriff Neil Wilson told a hearing he expected the inquiry to be held on 18 and 19 August at Fort William Sheriff Court.
