Highlands MSP calls for Ceasefire in Gaza and a two-state solution at today’s...
Dave Thompson, Highlands MSP, speaking at today’s (10th January) demonstration in Inverness High Street, called for an immediate ceasefire to end the suffering of the people of Gaza.Mr Thompson said:...
View ArticleMather to meet Board of Mid Argyll Swimming Pool as Council pulls the plug
Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, has arranged to meet members of the Board of the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool (formally the Mid Argyll Community Enterprise Ltd – or MACEL) at the Pool at Lochgilphead on Friday....
View ArticleNational concern and Highland support for Mid Argyll Pool
With the Mid Argyll Pipe Band in attendance, dinghy, kayak and water sports regaliato the fore, the demonstration and march in support of the survival of the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool takes place...
View ArticleSave Our Pool: the day Mid Argyll became a community
Very particularly this was the day Lochgilphead became a community. It moved march organiser Dave Payne, in his speech at the culmination of the rally on Front Green, to say he’d never known what...
View ArticleProtestors for Kilmory on Thursday over proposed cuts to learning disability...
Based at the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability, the Local Area Co-ordination National Development Team, is very concerned at Argyll and Bute Council’s proposal to withdraw all funding from...
View ArticleRing of ire for Council at Kilmory on Thursday
And it is all about ‘Johnny Cash’. Thursday morning (11th February) is the Council’s budget approval meeting. An ill-advised strategy to save money by cutting funding to child support services – in...
View ArticleInspirational Day at Kilfinan
Kilfinan Community Forest Company pulled out all the stops this Saturday: they’d organised brilliant sunshine, a very timely Second World War Austerity theme, an array of mouth-wateringly good foods,...
View ArticleCampaign launched to save Helensburgh’s Castle Woods
In relation to the article published here – and very widely read – on the nature of the threat to Helensburgh’s Castle Woods and council planning officers’ response to it, Helensburgh Community...
View ArticleJOIN AND WATCH Save Clyde Coastguard Red Flare Flotilla – 31st August
A red flare signals distress and need of assistance.Clyde Coastguard is, for good reason, distressed and in serious need of assistance.The specialist Clyde Coastguard station – the third largest in the...
View ArticleSupport flaring for Clyde Coastguard
The will to SaveClydeCoastguard reddened the skies and crowded the Esplanade at Greenock tonight (31st August 2012) – a dreich evening with lowering clouds, rain mist and a spectacle that went from...
View ArticleCouncillor Freeman describes ‘flop’ demonstration at Faslane this morning
[Updated below] Councillor George Freeman, who serves in the Lomond North Ward of Argyll and Bute Council, in which the UK National Submarine Base at Faslane on the Clyde is located, has issued the...
View Articleiomart brings basketball coaching from the cloud to Lochgoilhead
They either grow ‘em tall in Lochgoilhead or they’re planning to. The Argyll community of Lochgoilhead has launched its first basketball coaching programme for local children thanks to Glasgow cloud...
View ArticleTransport Minister didn’t turn up to the A83 Task Force meeting he called
The press statement issued by Transport Scotland last night, 18th March, in the immediate aftermath of a meeting in Arrochar of the A83 Task Force, brought forward by the Transport Minister himself...
View ArticleStramash Oban Outdoor Nursery stretches its legs
Today, 17th May, the Stramash Oban Outdoor Nursery showed its mettle and proved what it’s for. The company’s minbuses and a third bus donated by Flit, were shuttling around much of north Argyll,...
View ArticleHMS Argyll flies the flag in the Turks and Caicos
The sun drenched island of Grand Turk has played host to Royal Navy Type 23 frigate, HMS Argyll, which came alongside for a two day community engagement and disaster relief planning visit.The Plymouth...
View ArticleManaged protest at Pacific Quay shames pro-indy campaign
The political campaigns for and against Scottish independence were supposed to have operated a ceasefire for the duration of Glasgow’s hosting of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.Yesterday, a police...
View ArticleBOWfest 2014 proves it has the lot – and will do it again tomorrow
On the toes of the pretty Inveraray Castle, the 2014 Best of the West Festival [BOWfest] today even had the sun as a friend, with more promised for its second and last day tomorrow. Attendance figures...
View ArticleHMS Argyll shares drugs-busting expertise with the Dutch
Fresh from her drug-busting successes in the Caribbean, HMS Argyll called in on Curaçao to share her expertise with the Dutch.In the latter stages of a six-month deployment, the Devonport-based warship...
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