For Argyll

Argyll firm gets SPT contract for Renfrew Ferry replacement

newsroom — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:27 +0000

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport has just announced (19th March 2010) that Silvers Marine, based on the Rosneath peninsula at the Gareloch, has been awarded the contract to run a small passenger boat to replace the former Yoker to Renfrew passenger ferry across the Clyde. The boat which will run the service is a covered RIB, carrying [...]

Transponders ready? Take a Future Walk in Helensburgh

newsroom — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:04:44 +0000

[ March 27, 2010; 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. ] Helensburgh's CHORD team is inviting residents and business folk in the town and its surrounding area to take part in a unique and imaginative ‘Future Walk’ through the town. The event, on Saturday 27th March, has been organised by the firm of architects, Austin Smith Lord (ASL), which is developing the designs for the Helensburgh CHORD [...]

Lismore exchange to be upgraded to facilitate better broadband access

newsroom — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:26 +0000

The telephone exchange on Argyll’s Isle of Lismore is currently operating at or approaching capacity for broadband provision. BT and the Scottish Government have been working to enhance rural broadband provision, with a further 79 telephone exchanges being upgraded across Scotland. This includes the Lismore exchange. Welcoming the latest upgrades, Enterprise Minister and Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, [...]

Council agrees 2010-11 Asset Management and Capital Plan

newsroom — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:39 +0000

With implications for Campbeltown, Helensburgh and Mull, Argyll and Bute Council yesterday agreed its 2010-2011 Corporate Asset Management and Capital Plan – effectively its capital expenditure plan for the period. Within the plan, an outline business case is to be drawn up into three future options in relation to five schools in the Campbeltown area. The five [...]

Angus, Ashcroft wonga and the pot and kettle game of politics

newsroom — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:46:01 +0000

Reporting of the current row between the Scottish Conservatives and the SNP – over the accounting procedures covering the latter’s flyer campaign in the Angus constituency – has somehow lost sight of an interesting fact. As For Argyll reported earlier, Angus is the single Scottish constituency funded as a winnable marginal by Lord Ashcroft’s money tree [...]

Rally of Argyll

newsroom — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:29:31 +0000

[ July 10, 2010; ] The motorsport Rally of Argyll 2010 is on 10th July.

Hard cheese for Bute: last milk from First Milk in plan to close Rothesay creamery

newsroom — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:00:39 +0000

In a major shock for Bute and for Argyll, First Milk has just announced plans to close production at its Rothesay creamery. This proposal potentially impacts on up to 19 people who are employed at the site. All milk produced on the Isle of Bute goes to the Rothesay creamery. However, farmers on Bute have been [...]

Maersk, Council and Alan Reid to attend South Cowal Public Meeting on Clydeport and Loch Striven

newsroom — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39:32 +0000

South Cowal Community Council, the very model of how community participation in local government is now designed to work, is holding its second public meeting on 19th March at 7.30pm in Toward Memorial Hall. This one, petitioned by residents and friends of the Loch Striven Community, is focused on the actions of Clydeport, in [...]

Elvis is not alive and well but will be commemorated in Mull

newsroom — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:53:54 +0000

An otter, named Elvis by Tobermory residents in Argyll’s Isle of Mull – because of the Brylcreamed look of his wet head, is to have a commemorative statue raised to him by the town now mourning his loss. The accident-prone mammal was a harbourside companion of local fishermen , entertained by his adventurous – not to [...]

Scottish Government backs off moving public information notices to free online access

newsroom — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:40:27 +0000

The Scottish Government, under Cabinet Secretary John Swinney, has long identified for reform the practice of local authorities and the Government spending money on newspaper advertising of public information notices (PINS) such as planning applications, tenders and public health information. It felt, rightly, that the mass migration of audiences and content to the Internet left this [...]