Record funding for affordable housing in Argyll for 2010 – but it’s only 3.8%
A record £24.6 million will be invested in affordable housing across Argyll and Bute over the next year.The funding, announced today by the Minister for Housing and Communities Alex Neil, will enable...
View ArticleCheck if and when Alan Reid MP signs the Westminster Parliamentary Motion to...
Share the fun. Alan Reid, Argyll’s MP, has been saying one thing and failing to do another. He’s been saying – at Argyll Post Offices, that he supports them in their opposition to the UK Government’s...
View ArticleMcGrigor puts Inveraray & District Pipe Band on the record
Stuart McMillan MSP, put down a Scottish parliamentary motion to congratulate Simon Fraser University Pipe Band on its Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championship success and to express concern on Strathclyde...
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On the Maersk raft in Loch Striven
Young Highland cows go about their own business as Maersk makes history by inviting, for the first time, a community to meet the company and crew aboard one of its container ships. This is the view...
View ArticleDubai World asset sale includes Inchcape Shipping Services of Campbeltown origin
Istithmarh, the investment wing of £14BN debt-laden Dubai World, the world’s largest independent marine management company and owner of the QE2 – now also likely to be sold, has already begun the sale...
View ArticleBBC Radio Scotland: programme on Black Watch in Afghanistan
At 11.30am on Monday 26th April, BBC Radio Scotland is airing a programme: Black Watch, 3 Scots: A war in their own words.This recounts the experiences in this ongoing war of soldiers in the Black...
View ArticleRecord breaking year for white-tailed sea eagles
2010 has been a record-breaking year for the UK’s largest bird of the prey, the white-tailed sea eagle.Not only has the Scottish population passed the ’50 breeding pairs’ milestone, the species also...
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Argyll hopes with Kyles Athletic in shinty’s 2011 MacAulay Cup clash between...
Tomorrow, Saturday 20th August, Kyles Athletic carry the flag for Argyll on to Oban’s Mossfield Park, for a throw up at 2.30 against Newtonmore.Kyles has had a fantastic run, not losing a game all...
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Inveraray Bells: Peal band ring Scotland’s first ever double peal
The bells at All Saints, Inveraray are widely regarded as one of the finest rings of bells in the world. Ringers visit Inveraray from all over the world for the opportunity to ring them.It is fairly...
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2012 Olympic Flame: the Tarbet story
Tarbet’s story, of course, started way before 9th June, with Willie Young of Argyll and Bute Council, the genial and highly experienced organiser of all things sporting. (Below right, taking to...
View ArticleTroubling responses to the death of Margaret Thatcher
First of all, The Herald yesterday made the best choice of photograph to lead their coverage of the death of Britain’s longest serving 20th century Prime Minister.The photograph selected was a triumph...
View ArticleShame on BBC for relegating Paralympic Anniverary Games to Radio
The BBC has learned nothing from the huge success of Channel 4′s screening of the London 2012 Paralympic Games – with the BBC having made no serious effort to screen these themselves.One year on, we...
View ArticleWorld Pipe Band Championships: The Grade 1 Final
[Updating from 15.00 with Medley below.] The 12 Grade 1 bands qualifying yesterday for today’s finals have just [14.30ish] completed the first stage of the competition, playing their chosen...
View ArticleEvidence of what the SNP has squandered in Argyll and Bute
SNP sources at Argyll and Bute Council are pointing to positive aspects of their Group’s record in administration which remain unnoticed and unacknowledged.There is evidence to support their position....
View ArticleHelensburgh piper sets record
25 year-old Helensburgh piper, Kyle Warren, one of the Red Hot Chillli Pipers headlining BOWfest at Inveraray Castle next weekend, is also a member, since 2010, of the now legendary Northern Ireland’s...
View ArticleStrong Argyll presence as Edinburgh piper, Iain Speirs, takes The Glenfiddich...
Iain Speirs, last year’s winner of the annual Glenfiddich Piping Championship, did it again yesterday, 26th October, at Blair Castle – with the added glory of taking the 40th anniversary...
View ArticleEarly success near Mull of new apps to record sightings of rare non-native...
Two new mobile apps, allowing people quickly and easily to record sightings of non-native species across Scotland, have already reaped rewards with a rare recording near the Isle of Mull.The apps are...
View ArticleRhu’s loony dookers raise money for RNLI
New Year swimmers at Rhu – a record 218 hardy and cheerful maniacs – raised well over £1,000 for the RNLI, the charity close to the public heart and supported by volunteer crews around the country,...
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