Gigha’s global citizens
Argyll’s Isle of Gigha is making its mark – literally – in New York City – on a mini golf course being created by Manhattan schoolchildren.The course is to feature elements from various areas of...
View ArticleSea lice debate turns directly confrontational
It’s not an everyday occurrence, anywhere, to find a prominent, highly respected and much awarded professor accusing an ancient university of scandalously misleading the nation, but it happened here in...
View ArticleMichael Moore’s choice to be sacked reveals insight into how Westminster...
It has been revealed in the last couple of days that former Scottish Secretary, Borders MP Michael Moore, had been offered the opportunity to resign – but chose to be sacked.Angry friends of Mr Moore...
View ArticleResponses to Scottish Government’s Information Day on potential...
The Scottish Government hosted an Information Day in Edinburgh on Friday, 18th October, targeted on private sector ferry operators potentially interested in tendering for a hybrid commercial risk /...
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Argyll novelists to review each other’s independence related books
Two Argyll novelists, both of whom have published books which, in different ways, approach the issue of Scottish independence, are reviewing each other’s books for us.They agreed that we would give...
View ArticleBarnardo’s Scotland warns parents of signs their child is vulnerable to...
Barnardo’s Scotland is launching a hard-hitting televesion advertisement tomorrow, 15th March, highlighting abuse and warning parents to be alive to the tell-tale signs that their children may be a...
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ACT: new local partnership charity to promote Argyll’s coast and countryside
ACT – Argyll and the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust – launched yesterday, 28th April, is a charity whose mission is to maintain, enhance and promote the coast and countryside of Argyll for the...
View ArticleSolution found to Oban’s Rockfield School site – but why Area Committee in...
This is a mixture of good news and impenetrable and unnecessary defensiveness.Argyll and Bute Council wishes to sell the site of the former Rockfield School in central Oban to ACHA [Argyll Community...
View ArticleSalmond’s continuing threat to default on share of national debt raises clean...
[Updated] In his defiant efforts to recover the substantial ground lost to Alastair Darling – the clear if unexpected winner of Tuesday’s debate [5th August] with the First Minister on the stability of...
View ArticleWales to consider support for SNP amendment for four nation approval of any...
Today, 4th November, during First Minister’s Questions in the Welsh Assembly, Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones was asked by Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood, asked if he and his party would support an...
View ArticleStuart Hill challenges Supreme Court to test security of jurisdiction for...
Stuart Hill, the renowned campaigner for Shetland’s sovereignty to be acknowledged, claiming that there is no proof of Scotland’s de iure ownership of the islands – and equally renowned researcher and...
View ArticleRally for Castle Toward – still a road to travel
The spirited Rally held in Dunoon on Saturday 17th January by supporters of South Cowal Community Development Company’s [SCCDC] campaign to buy the neglected Castle Toward estate from Argyll and Bute...
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