Scottish Water to put Port Ellen under greater pressure
Not a dispute where a major corporation gets heavy with one of Argyll’s island communities – this is Scottish Water about to start a project to improve the current low water pressure at 35 properties...
View ArticleAlzheimer Scotland predicts Argyll sufferers to double in 20 years
Highlands & Islands MSP, Rhoda Grant indicates she has had statistics from Alzheimer Scotland predicting that the number of Alzheimers sufferers in Argyll is likely to double – to 2,500 – in the...
View ArticleGARL and Glasgow North East
There are indeed political lessons to be learned from the recent result of the Glasgow North East by-election for the constituency’s Westminster seat. These lessons are to be digested by politicians,...
View ArticleKenny Logan tries to kick Beauly-Denny line into touch
Kenny Logan thinks as well as he dances – engagingly but without connecting up the limbs of an argument.Logan today publicly joined the ranks of the Beauly-Denny power line protesters. In the best of...
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Lewis Pate needs your help to deliver real protection for Scotland’s Red...
Lewis Pate, the new Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels (SSRS) Project Officer, says he hopes to lead a co-ordinated and strategic programme of grey squirrel control and habitat management to deliver real...
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Ellis Cameron: Mish-mashed
So now I’m finally finished second year (at Glasgow School of Art) and truthfully I don’t think I could have had a better time.This week has been a bit of a mish-mash of different things, so here’s a...
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Public support for Helensburgh Communty Woodland Group’s management plan for...
[Updated] Locals responded enthusiastically to Helensburgh Communty Woodland Group’s (HCWG) draft management plan for the town’s Castle Woods, when it was presented to a public meeting held at Lomond...
View ArticleProgress on addressing A82 Pulpit Rock problems
Transport Scotland has just announced that it intends to award a £9.2 million contract to McLaughlin & Harvey Ltd in respect of the overdue address to A83 Pulpit Rock bottleneck.The press release...
View ArticleEwan Smith may be a lone vote for parents’ wishes on Arbroath school estate
As a newly independent councilor, Ewan Smith, the schools campaigner well known in Argyll, today [7th March] faces a full council meeting on the issue which led to his recent resignation from the SNP...
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Does the new ticketing arrangement for Gourock-Dunoon ferries make Argyll...
The Scottish Government has just issued the following press statement on a new ticketing agreement for the Gourock-Dunoon ferry services.The statementReproduced here verbatim:‘Gourock – Dunoon ferry...
View ArticleAudit Scotland on roles and working relationships for councillors and officers
‘Are you getting it right?’, ask Audit Scotland in a guide the commission produces in ‘an improvement series for councillors and officers’ on how council s work, entitled: Roles and Working...
View ArticleGood news for Argyll from the European Pipe Band Championships
The European Championships were held in a new venue this year – Grant Park at Forres in Moray. The news from the sharp end of competition is that the venue was excellent, with great facilities and the...
View ArticleChanges to payment of Bus Services Operators Grant
From the start of October 2013, the Bus Services Operators Grant (BSOG) payments will be delivered in four-weekly rather than in quarterly installments.The change comes after approaches from a number...
View ArticleStagecoach trials Near Field Communication smartphone technology for bus...
In a major technological development, the transport group, Stagecoach, has launched a new scheme which allows bus passengers in Cambridge to obtain timetable information direct to their smartphones.The...
View ArticleSNP Group unable even to oppose
[Updated below 12.00} Reports received from yesterday's meeting of Argyll and Bute Council indicate that, when it came to the agenda item on the Audit Scotland report on the council, former leader,...
View ArticleThe Wizard of Oz, the Ardfin Estate, golf, wealth, privacy and community
The Australian Greg Coffey, the financial sector comet who so galvanised the City of London that he was dubbed ‘The Wizard of Oz’, has submitted a new set of plans for a golf course he wants to build...
View ArticleBrown and MacAskill: ministerial snakes and ladders
They say a week in politics is a long time – but one day – yesterday – was time enough for one minister to take a slide down a snake of his own contriving; and for another to stand a couple more rungs...
View ArticleScottish Water drop-in session at Port Appin
Scottish Water is inviting customers to drop in to an information event on the proposed environmental improvement plans for Port Appin.These plans include the relocation of Scottish Water’s septic tank...
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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 ArticleBrown visit to see ground investigations start for new stage of A82 works
Transport Minister Keith Brown was present today, 15th October, as vital ground investigations began to help to identify a preferred route for the revision of the A82 between Tarbet and Inverarnan.The...
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