Mull, Dunoon, ferries and storm winds
CalMac’s ferry from the Isle of Mull to Oban yesterday took six bours to compete a normally 45 minute passage.Argyll Ferries passenger service between Gourock and Dunoon had to be suspended in the same...
View ArticleBaillie leads parliamentary debate on dementia
Local MSP, Jackie Baillie, has backed an innovative project which raises awareness of the vital contribution dementia carers make in Dumbarton, Alexandria and Helensburgh and Lomond.The Dementia Carer...
View ArticleHeir to Blair reaps Blair legacy
Prime Minister David Cameron faced a shock loss in the House of Commons last night when he lost the vote on his motion on British armed intervention in Syria – by 285 to 272.His motion was for...
View ArticleHow do you write a tender and appoint a bidder when you know nothing about...
Argyll and Bute Council has just delivered a typical misaligned appointment in the award of a £20k tender for a consultant to deliver ‘a strategic action plan for the heritage, arts, culture and...
View ArticleFury at Minister’s deliberate exclusion of Argyll islands from Steering Group
Island councillors Robin Currie from Islay and Mary Jean Devon from Mull made a formal request to Argyll and Bute Council to represent the Argyll islands at the islands conference held last week at...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: The North Sea
This is the third in a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry, the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent Scotland.We are...
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Historic Scotland gives Auchindrain two years to prove itself
With the Auchindrain farm township, south of Inveraray, known last summer [2013] to have hit the buffers in its attempt to keep alive what is, in its entirety, a unique historic artefact testifying to...
View ArticleSalute to CIPFA for lucid and illuminating guide on how to read the numbers...
The ‘indy balance sheet’ we reported yesterday, 30th June, that the Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants [CIPFA] was to produce, was then published later: Scotland’s Future – in the...
View ArticlePackham to host RSPB 2014 Nature of Scotland Awards
Two Argyll projects are on the shortlist for the 2014 RSPB Nature of Scotland Awards, which will be hosted by the naturalist and author Chris Packham.With Mull a staple element of the BBC’s wildlife...
View ArticleBBC indy debate: incoherent uncontrolled unedifying bear pit
[Updated below 26th August] The BBC has had the last debate between the campaigns contesting the Referendum on Scottish Independence, between Alex Salmond, for independence and Alastair Darling, for...
View ArticleWhen is Argyll and Bute going to publish its mini-count breakdown of the indy...
Other councils all over Scotland have been publishing the breakdowns – by ward or area – of the independence referendum vote in their authority areas.Not unusually, there is nothing yet from Argyll and...
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