The determined islanders of Jura are campaigning hard to recruit a doctor for their island practice.
Their greatest score to date is about to hit the television screens – on the Scottish section of the BBC’s lunchtime television news.
Will the footage of the glories of this dramatic and communal west coast island, along with the faces and voices of those who need this practice to be a living contributor to their lives on Jura, do the trick and produce a GP?
The Dhiurachs deserve it to.
Any GP fond of golf should stop and think carefully about this job.
Greg Coffee, the Australian financier owner of Jura’s Ardfin Estate may have closed for refurbishment and not reopened the renowned Jura House Gardens to the public but he is planing a world class 18 hole golf course for the island.
This would undoubtedly contribute to Jura’s economic sustainability – and it would create golfing links – so to speak – and deals with the lovely Machrie links course on its sister Isle of Islay.
Both could develop productive links with the two world class golf courses at Machrihanish, across the water on the Mull of Kintyre on the Argyll mainland,
Aspiring candidates should pack their golf bag with the stethoscope and head for Jura forthwith.