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New for 2010: Festival of the Sea to celebrate Argyll

With the threshold of the year not yet quite crossed and the sink of January approaching fast, it’s good for the spirits to have a new initiative announced now.Oban is to host a major new 10 day event,...

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New 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...

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Forestry Commission may conserve Wade’s highland military road

To counter the Jacobite threat, the Highland military road network was constructed by General George Wade between 1725 and 1733.It comprises over 400km of road and about 40 bridges, linking the four...

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Council, communications and control freakery

Or is it paranoia? Either way it is diseased and utterly self-defeating. Here’s an indicative story.Elaine Vassie from Lochgilphead suggested joining our reporting team. We were delighted. This is what...

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Old media PINned In by new technologies

ForArgyll tweeted from the Scottish Local Newspaper Summit on Friday (12th February) at Glasgow’s Atlantic Quay, using a Blackberry Curve with 3G internet connection and a Bluetooth Freedom...

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Clydebuilt sisters HMS Daring and Dauntless perform in tandem

With high-speed pair skaters catching the eye at the Winter Olympics, the Royal Navy has sent its two newest and most advanced warships, the Type 45 air defence destroyers, HMS Daring Dauntless to sea...

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BBC Trust sits on its hands over BBC Alba

Never the most decisive or authoritative body, the current BBC Trust, post the excesses of the Hutton Enquiry, is one of the most damaging the organisation has experienced.Today, the Trust announced...

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How to take part in Scottish Green candidate’s Skype-in

Elaine Morrison, Scottish Green candidate for Argyll and Bute, is inviting people to email her if they wish to participate in the Skype Phone In Sessions she is arranging for next week (details...

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Apple now world’s biggest technology company

Apple is now valued at £152 billion, £2 billion more than Microsoft, valued at £150 billion.The company’s design-led and user-friendliest production philosophy has seen its success driven by the return...

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More vision for Bute 2020

Bute has held a follow-up session, building on the Bute 2020 event held in January, chaired by Jim Mather MSP, hosted by Mount Stuart. This saw people representing key organisations within the Bute...

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Opposition gets shift in council policy on IT access to council meetings

Yesterday’s meeting of Argyll and Bute Council debated a motion promoted  by the SNP opposition group.This focused on proposals to address, through the use of contemporary information technology and...

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Scotland’s food and drink production bucked the recession in 2009 but…

Cabinet Secretary Richard Lochhead today announced a recession-busting performance in Scotland’s food and drink production for the calendar year of 2009.In that year, food and drink production crossed...

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Council cannot say HOW they decide on media accreditation

For Argyll will not be at tomorrow’s first meeting in the new session of Argyll and Bute Council.Since 11th May we have been trying to resolve the situation which began with our sudden and vindictive...

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Campaigners say democratic process at risk as Coastguard closures set to...

Following the issue of the highly critical and evidenced report from the Transport Select Committee and the inexplicable  absence of response from the Scottish Government, the process of...

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Development Coll partnership

Local community development company, Development Coll, has been successful in a partnership initiative now set to bring an unprecedented mobile phone coverage to the islan.Its partnership with...

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HMS Argyll arriving to help hurricane-struck Bermuda

The Type 23 Frigate, HMS Argyll, on a flag flying mission in the Caribbean, has been diverted by the Royal Navy to Bermuda to help with humanitarian aid in the aftermath of the devastation cased to the...

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Crown Office sets our social media prosecution policy

In the run up to the Independence Referendum,  with a variety of abuses taking place on social media, principally on Twitter, causing concern about the legality of some such behaviours, the Lord...

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Partial victory in campaign for return of local maternity scanning services –...

Mary Galbraith, the Labour candidate who’s been driving a campaign to get local maternity scanning services restored to the six Argyll & Bute locations from which they were withdrawn to Glasgow,has...

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Cross-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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Nick Ray 2015 in 2015

Nick Ray’s 2015 in 2015 is a 2015 mile solo sea kayak journey around Scotland’s coastline, visiting each of the Scotland’s forty seven RNLI stations, raising money for the RNLI as he paddles.The...

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