both Gaelic and English medium learning and has an approximate roll of 75. Gairloch High School is a modern six-year secondary school with an approximate roll of 160. A limited range of further education courses is provided by the West Highland College UHI, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands. Media Gairloch is home to the UK's smallest local radio station, Two Lochs Radio. The village was featured on the BBC One TV series When Love Comes to Town in 2007. The area has also featured in a number of older educational and promotional films and TV programmes, including the 1955 film Crofter Boy, and the 1990s documentary "Last Postbus to Gairloch" (Channel 4), featuring the postbus (mini-van carrying passengers & mail) that was an additional link for various parts of the nearby community, before being withdrawn by Royal Mail. Notable people An annual festival is held in Gairloch commemorating John Mackay (1656-1754) piper to the Tacksman of Clan Mackenzie of Gairloch, blind from the age of seven as the result of smallpox, now known as the "Blind Piper" (), and grandfather to William Ross. He composed what some consider perhaps the finest () ever, of which about a dozen are still known and exercise the best pipers today. Gairloch is the final resting place of the Gaelic bard or William Ross (1762–1791), known as 'the Gairloch bard'. Ross was born in Broadford on the Isle of Skye and travelled extensively throughout the Western Isles, becoming known for his knowledge of different varieties of Gaelic. He composed several works of love poetry aiming to win the affection of Mòr Ross of Stornoway, who never reciprocated and married another man. Perhaps the most famous of these is (). Ross settled in the Gairloch are and became a schoolmaster, and died at the age of 28 in Badachro. It is popularly believed that he died of a broken heart. In his 1783 poem Moladh Gheàrrloch ("In Praise of Gairloch"), William Ross describes the Highland winter sport of shinty (), which was traditionally played by the Gaels upon St. Andrew's Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Handsel Monday, and Candlemas. The Bard's account of the annual match played upon New Year's Day at ebb tide upon the Big Sand () of Gairloch, is, according to Ronald Black, "as succinct a description as we have of the great festive shinty matches of