£43.1 million over 4 years for 500 Named Persons/ State Guardians for birth...
Heath Secretary, Alex Neil has announced the appointment over a four year period of 500 Health Visitors to act as the highly controversial Named Persons or State Guardians for pre-school age children...
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Seafari trips for Oban’s Midsummer’s Lifeboat Day this Saturday
A definite ‘be there’, this Saturday, 21st June – the longest day and fun from start to finish – is Oban Lifeboat’s Open Day. Seafari will take you on a fast boat trip around Oban Bay for £5 – and then...
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For ‘The Legion’: Zoe – a stranger to a road bike – pedals to Paris
Zoe Hutchison from Irvine and a marine biology research student at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, based near Oban, is gearing up for a challenging 460 km bike ride from London to Paris to...
View ArticleHighland Archaeology Festival 27th September to 12th October
The annual Highland Archaeology Festival was established to celebrates archaeology and heritage across the Highlands, including Argyll.Its aim is to highlight and to attract visitors to a rich array of...
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Stramash open day rocks Inverawe
The outdoor nursery and outdoor activities specialist, Stramash, has just seen the rip-roaring success of its Open Day at Inverawe Country Park last weekend, on Sunday 31st August. This topped even the...
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BOWfest 2014 proves it has the lot – and will do it again tomorrow
On the toes of the pretty Inveraray Castle, the 2014 Best of the West Festival [BOWfest] today even had the sun as a friend, with more promised for its second and last day tomorrow. Attendance figures...
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BBC ALBA focus on the life savers of the Paediatric Retrieval Service
The Paediatric Retrieval Service provides a unique and vital service at the heart of NHS Scotland.Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, this team of specialist doctors and nurses are on call to...
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Argyll and the Isles Secrets Collection: Southend and Dunaverty – St Columba,...
Southend is just that – the southern end of the Mull of Kintyre, the southern end of Argyll itself and a strategic command position on the waterways which carried the historic sea traffic of invasion,...
View ArticleReport on Vale of Leven deaths from Clostridium Difficile to be published on...
It was made known yesterday that – five years after it was set up, three and a half years after it was supposed to report and seven years since the first death – Lord MacLean’s Inquiry is finally to...
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Clever new wildlife hide for Mull
A well conceived new wildlife hide has opened at Forestry Commission Scotland’s picnic site at Fishnish on Mull, overlooking the Sound of Mull. This location makes it easily accessible also to...
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Furnace Roll of Honour – the men behind the names
The winter sun was kind to the village of Furnace this afternoon as local people gathered by the War Memorial to remember those killed in the service of their country.This year, the Remembrance Day...
View ArticleJackie Baillie responds to report on Vale Of Leven Hospital C.Diff Inquiry
The report from the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry has, at last, been published [here] at 2pm this afternoon.Local MSP, Jackie Baillie, who has fought – for 6-7 years – for the rights of the families...
View ArticleTransfer to Faslane of two Trafalgar class submarines no unalloyed gain
The Ministry of Defence announced yesterday, 24th November, that of the four Trafalgar class nuclear powered but conventionally armed hunter-killer submarines remaining in commission, two will stay in...
View ArticleRSPB’s 2015 Big Garden Birdwatch
Thousands of people across Scotland are expected to count the birds and wildlife in their gardens over the weekend of 24th and 25th January as part of the RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch. The...
View ArticleSubstantial community benefits from the big estates
A simplistic adversarial demonising of the genre of the landowner has, deliberately, ramped up the politics of unthinking envy, with no consideration of the realities.The pattern of life is that some...
View ArticleStandout Valentine and Easter breaks on the Portavadie menu
The spectacular Portavadie in southwest Cowal on the shores of Loch Fyne, opposite Tarbert in Kintyre and with a CalMac vehicle and passenger ferry running between them, has a Valentine break and a...
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Brian Wilson on Clyde and Hebridean Ferry Services tender
Brian Wilson, born in Dunoon in Argyll and Labour Minister of State from 1997-2003 in the Scottish Office, Foreign Office, Department of Trade and Industry and Energy, is also founding editor and...
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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...
View ArticleOban Transit Marina: THE business case and the imperative to go-ahead
After eight years of rolling with the punches in a ‘process’ which has appeared to be little more than a series of contrived obstructions, the Oban Bay Marine team responsible for the proposal for a...
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HIgh octane Water Adventure launch at Portavadie
The McFall family take the notion of family business to a new level. Three generations of the family hit the glorious Portavadie resort on east Loch Fyne yesterday, 4th April.They manned a stand...
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