Failure of Council’s ‘complicated procurement procedure’ leaves islands with...
[Text updated 14.00] Negotiations on the new PSO [Public Service Obligation] contract for flights out of Oban Airport to the Hebridean islands of Colonsay, Coll and Tiree have broken down.This will see...
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Party time as Community Contacts abolishes being alone at Christmas
As well as being an important story in its own right, this fits in the series of photographic contributions of moments in Argyll and of Argyllachs over the Christmas to Hogmanay period of 2014.In this...
View ArticleSSACN looking for Project Officer in development of Community Outreach Programme
The energetic Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network [SSACN] is recruiting a Project Officer for an initial period of 9 months to support the development of its Community Outreach Programme which...
View ArticleRMT warns of threat to Caledonian Sleeper as Serco shares fall on slashed...
Rail Union, RMT, has just warned of a serious threat to the future of the Caledonian Sleeper service, as shares in the company selected to run the service, SERCO, fell heavily.The scandal-hit...
View ArticleSNP Deputy Leader candidates set out their stalls
Yesterday’s edition [19th October 2014] of The Sunday Herald carried manifesto statements by each of the three candidates for the Deputy Leadership of the SNP and, in the case of two of them,...
View ArticleSalute to CIPFA for lucid and illuminating guide on how to read the numbers...
The ‘indy balance sheet’ we reported yesterday, 30th June, that the Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants [CIPFA] was to produce, was then published later: Scotland’s Future – in the...
View ArticleGalloway ties two mighty albatrosses to the Yes campaign
George Galloway has an ego to outstrip even Alex Salmond’s – but these days there is no comparison in the ability of each to deliver to meet a level of expectation consistent with the size of the...
View ArticleFirst justice now education in a mess
Scotland is only just catching its breath in the 12 month moratorium Scots law was given last week before the Scottish Government returns to attempt to push through the dropping of the requirement for...
View ArticleThe no-no campaign
It would be hard to find a more appropriately named political campaign than the ‘No’ campaign on Scottish independence.No campaign that aimed to win should ever have been let make so many and such...
View ArticleBEAR Scotland update on A83 road accident on 28th February
BEAR Scotland has given us a timeline on the events around the serious road traffic accident last Friday which saw the A83 closed for around 6 hours at Strone Point, north of Inveraray.BEAR says: ‘The...
View ArticleKey battle for rural schools is on
Tuesday 21st January’s session of the Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee was fascinating as much for what was below the surface as for what was said.The event was the committee stage of the...
View ArticleRequest submitted for Audit Scotland to return to investigate the Castle...
This morning For Argyll submitted an evidenced request to Audit Scotland to return to Argyll and Bute to investigate the entire ‘Castle Toward’ affair fully and objectively.The request was submitted...
View ArticleCalMac HQ party disappointed not to be on inaugural Lochboisdale-Mallaig sailing
CalMac sent its Chair, CEO, Communications Director and another staff colleague on the Oban ferry to Lochboisdale on Monday, so that they could be on the MV Lord of the isles’ inaugural run of the new...
View ArticleSerco CEO out of the company in attempt to keep the ship afloat
Serco, the troubled supplier of services to governments, has just seen its CEO for the past 10 years [and employee for 19], Christopher Hyman, resign – with the future of the company’s status as trusty...
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Andrew Argyle: The unnecessary threat to Grangemouth petrochemical
Threatened closure of INEOS’s Grangemouth petrochemical plant has been averted following a humiliating climb-down by the employees’ UNITE union and government intervention culminating in £134 million...
View ArticleResponses to Scottish Government’s Information Day on potential...
The Scottish Government hosted an Information Day in Edinburgh on Friday, 18th October, targeted on private sector ferry operators potentially interested in tendering for a hybrid commercial risk /...
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Western Ferries family welcomes the new kids
At first it was all about waiting. Then it was about learning. We’d expected today to be about the two new boats – and it was – but it was really about family, the extended family that is Western...
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,...
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Western Ferries names its two new ferries today in ceremony at Cammell Laird
[16th August - Photo update below - official shot from Western Ferries] Western Ferries, operator of the successful vehicle and passenger ferry service between McInroy’s Point in Gourock and Hunter’s...
View ArticleDeputy First Minister set to bring welcome local engagement to ferry...
[8th August - Updated below in Responses] On 1st July, the Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, sent a covering letter to the members of the Gourock-Dunoon Ferries Service Steering Group with the...
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