McGrigor & Kelly press NHS Highland to go ahead on Campbeltown dialysis pilot
NHS Highland is being pressed hard to go-ahead with trialling a dialysis unit at Campbeltown Hospital. Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands Conservative MSP and Councillor Donald Kelly who...
View ArticleBabcock contract for Faslane and Coulport renewed
Following the referendum decision that Scotland is to stay in the United Kingdom, engineering giant, Babcock, has had its United Kingdom government contract for the submarine and missile handling bases...
View ArticleIsle of Luing gets consent for Spanish slate to roof its Atlantic Islands Centre
At the meeting of Argyll and Bute Council’s Planning Committee today, Councillor Roddy McCuish put forward a motion in support of the requirement for the Atlantic Islands Centre being built on the Isle...
View ArticleSSACN’s long campaign close to seeing EU ban on landing Tope shark
The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network is delighted that, following years of campaigning backed up by the data from its Scottish Shark Tagging Programme [SSTP], tope [Galeorhinus galeus] is a...
View ArticleThompson backs Crofting Federation by pressing Minister for detail on...
Dave Thompson, SNP MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch used a recent meeting of The Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee [RACCE] to back the Scottish Crofting Federation [SCF] by...
View ArticleDon’t forget the message to send on Day 2 of the Save Castle Toward Advent...
We’ll be reminding you every day for the 12 days of the South Cowal Community Development Company’s resourceful online Advent Calender to email your message to the person named for that day.You’ll find...
View ArticleAn unexpected pairing to email in Day 8′s Save Castle Toward Advent Calendar
And no, we’re not going to spoil the fun.Click here to go straight to the South Cowal Community Development Company’s campaigning Advent Calendar.Then click on Box 8 and see the two important...
View ArticleThe price for Castle Toward
The issue to be decided tomorrow, 18th December, not by a full meeting of Argyll & Bute Council but by its Policy & Resources sub-committee, is the price at which the Castle Toward estate is to...
View ArticleRussell writes to councillors on Castle Toward decision tomorrow as some are...
There are two new developments in the saga of Castle Toward.On technicalities applied at his discretion, the Council Leader this morning denied a vote to two Cowal councillors attending tomorrow’s...
View ArticleCastle Toward decision cannot be acceptable to South Cowal community
After a very long day today, Deputy Leader Ellen Morton proposed a motion to sell Castle Toward at value [£1.75 million] – with a commercial loan of £1m deferred for 3 years.This motion was proposed...
View ArticleCastle Toward deadline: council chipping away to the very last
[Updated below] Generosity of spirit – or even the will to form constructive relations with the communities it exists to serve – seems to be beyond the reach of Argyll and Bute Council.South Cowal...
View ArticleJim Murphy under pressure to confirm intentions for East Renfrewshire
New Scottish Labour Leader, Jim Murphy, promised on taking office to make his political intentions known ‘in the New Year’ – in respect of whether or not he would stand in May 2015 as the Labour...
View ArticleCross-party support for Helensburgh Community Woodland Group’s call for...
Helensburgh Community Woodland Group [HCWG] has only just launched its campaign to ensure the removal of debris and logs still remaining on the site of the former woodland in Cumberand Avenue,...
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Oban Bay Marine – and its 52 paid-up business supporters – go public for...
Today’s edition of The Oban Times carries a full page colour advertisement speaking directly to the town of Oban and indirectly to Argyll and Bute Council. The advertisement has been paid for by 52...
View ArticleTrident: the ‘four submarines, three or none’ question
Like the majority of civilians, we see no point in stockpiling nuclear weapons we cannot ever use other than in an apocalyptic domesday scenario – and even then, their deployment would be supremely...
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ONE VOTE: Tactical Voting brings FUN – at last – for pro-unionists
At long last there is some FUN in sight for those who see and wish to protect the value of unity in keeping the United Kingdom in existence to become a federation.The mainstream political parties have...
View ArticleLabour commits to full replacement of Trident submarines
The Labour party has come out firmly in support of the replacement of all four Trident missile carrying nuclear submarines.The issue is that the principle of Continuous At Sea Deterrence [CASD] which...
View ArticleForget tactical voting for unity. Forget the coming of the one-party state....
If you value unity, you know that the SNP has now been confirmed by two separate polls as running at 54% of voting intentions in Scotland.You know what this means in terms of the almost total...
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Novel skillset discovered in Argyll and Bute Council Planning Committee
The rest of us might look at piles of miscellaneous debris lying together in the same location and be unable to distinguish between them.But Argyll and Bute Council’s Planning Committee can – without...
View ArticleOPEC conference opts to keep the taps on at the same rate
As many analysts predicted, the June conference of OPEC [Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries] in Vienna yesterday, 5th June 2015, decided to maintain the world glut in oil supplies by...
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