UK Government may start printing money today
They call it quantitative easing and they say they won’t actually be running the prsses at De La Rue where the notes are printed, but this is effectively what is about to be done.The Bank of England is...
View ArticleRothesay Moorings v Crown Estate battle in Edinburgh Court of Session today
The results of a case opening today in Edinburgh’s Court of Session may set a precedent for some shoreside Royal Burghs with access to moor boats on the sea bed in their area.The Port Bannatyne...
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Mull’s PC Finlay Christine wins top RSPB award
A man who has played a signal role in the Mull Eagle Watch project, protecting the awesome white-tailed sea eagles established there at the Loch Frisa Eagle Hide is PC Finlay Christine.PC Christine,...
View ArticleIslay Lifeboat service to benefit from Fife millionaire’s RNLI bequest
Hugh Brown, a 78 year-old retired banker who had spent most of his life abroad before settling in Kinghorn in Fife, died earlier this year, in February.Mr Brown was originally from PIttenweem in the...
View ArticleNew Communications Manager for Council
Argyll and Bute Council has just appointed a new Communications Manager.Jo Smith will be joining the Council in that capacity in early April.She comes to Argyll from her current post as Communications...
View ArticleSpygate: ‘Independent’ investigator Clayton fights for council but not Common...
John Clayton, a ‘recently retired chief council officer and former Senior Audit Manager with Audit Scotland’, has been retained by Argyll and Bute Council to conduct an ‘independent’ investigation into...
View ArticleScottish Water: no health hazard from Argyll sludge pond
Scottish Water have confirmed that the Argyll sludge pond mentioned in the Sunday Herald article on 5th August was a drinking water treatment plant and not a sewage treatment one.They have told us that...
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Death of last Laird of Coll
Sadly, Charles Kenneth Moncrieff Stewart, the last Laird of Coll, passed away yesterday morning – 18th August 2012 – in a nursing home in Selkirk.Kenneth moved to Coll after marrying Janet Hodgson...
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Heroes reach Inverness en route to start of Heroes UK Challenge, land, sea...
In a ‘heroes for heroes’ challenge of awesome proportions – taking on earth, water and air – this afternoon a team of serving, former and wounded servicemen and policemen flew into Inverness airport...
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Heroes Challenge UK team row out of Campbeltown for Ireland with Kintyre...
[Update below 21.15] Before most folk were out of their beds this Saturday morning , 25th May, the Heroes Challenge UK‘s endurance team – composed of serving, retired and injured members of the armed...
View ArticleWestern Ferries forty years on: youngest fleet in the Clyde, 1.3m passengers...
As Argyll’s Western Ferries prepares today to welcome its two new ferries to the fleet for its Dunoon-Gourock vehicle and passenger service, it is looking at running the youngest fleet on the Clyde,...
View ArticleMull keeps its Rally victors close to home
With a tradition – unbroken since 2002 – of seeing its own renowned annual car rally won by home grown drivers, seeing off constantly tough competition from all over the place, the Isle of Mull has...
View ArticleRosyth and Devonport to become radioactive waste storage areas?
Yesterday’s Independent on Sunday carried a report on the intentions of the Ministry of Defence to go ahead and remove low level radioactive waste [LLW] from redundant nuclear submarines parked up at...
View ArticleProject Fear again: SNP minister caught trying to frighten Dundee University...
The national media today have been bringing to light a matter of real concern where an SNP government minister attempted to put the frighteners on a distinguished academic in relation to an address of...
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Happy 96th Birthday to John McWhirter, 50 years serving Campbeltown lifeboat
Today is the 96th birthday of a remarkable and modest man, John McWhirter, who has served Campbeltown RNLI Lifeboat for no fewer than 50 years, is a legend warmly remembered by everyone who worked with...
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