Government extends scheme to help people struggling to pay fuel bills
If you’re having problems paying to keep warm enough as winter sets in – or you know someone who is – read on. The Scottish Government has extended its £60 million Energy Assistance Package to cover...
View ArticleRare good UK Government idea: on honouring military covenant
Was this Bob Ainsworth’s finest moment? In a recent and poorly reported initiative, the much ridiculed (with reason) UK Defence Secretary announced the introduction of a series of measures to support...
View ArticleMcGrigor speaks at Holyrood on Water Rescue Review
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands and Islands MSP, spoke at Holyrood today (21st January) in a debate on the report produced by Paddy Tomkins on Scotland’s Water Rescue Review.This review followed the...
View ArticleProtestors for Kilmory on Thursday over proposed cuts to learning disability...
Based at the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability, the Local Area Co-ordination National Development Team, is very concerned at Argyll and Bute Council’s proposal to withdraw all funding from...
View ArticleArmando Iannucci tells of deadly signals in Iraq
Film-maker and author of TV series In the Thick of It and film In the Loop – both letting light into the shambles behind the scenes of government – Armando Ianucci reveals a shocking fact about the...
View ArticleBlair’s penchant for back doors
Families of armed forces personnel killed in Iraq – and their supporters – are outraged by and contemptuous of Tony Blair’s ultra-early (2 hours) entry to the Queen Elizabeth conference hall for...
View ArticleHelensburgh’s Rennie Mackintosh Hill House dusts off for 1st April opening
The dust covers are coming off at the National Trust for Scotland’s Hill House in Helensburgh as it prepares to open to visitors for the summer season from Thursday 1st April.The 20th century house was...
View ArticleActiv8 Outdoor Recreation Festival, Glenbranter
If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at rock climbing, abseiling, kayaking, orienteering or even scuba diving, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park along with Forestry Commission Scotland is...
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Easdale Island’s Atlantic Adventure Day
Given that this is the little island whose residents take a Ne’erday swim in the surrounding Atlantic, it is neither surprising that the slate isle of Easdale should invent an Atlantic Adventure Day...
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Wheelchair racer Colette Martin to open Ardrishaig’s summer activity initiative
There could be no clearer reminder that physical and competitive outdoor activities are for everyone than Collette Martin’s role in opening Ardrishaig;s ‘Get Ready for Summer’ initiative.One of...
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2012 Crinan Canal Water Festival: An Awf’y Big Adventure
In the Year of Creative Scotland, no one can say that the programme devised by the Heart of Argyll Tourism Alliance in partnership with Scottish Canals for the 2012 and third Crinan Canal Water...
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Campbeltown Picture House seat sponsorship drive launched at the seat of...
Today, Tuesday 13th November, The Picture House in Campbeltown launched its Seat Sponsorship Scheme at the Scottish Parliament, hosted by Argyll & Bute’s MSP, Michael Russell.He said: ‘This is a...
View ArticleFor caravan rallies with an eye on the Oban area…
Caravan rallies are always fun – the range of vans, the renewal of friendships, the explorations, the discoveries – and the memories.Argyll and the west coast of Scotland are favoured destinations for...
View ArticleBurgh Hall film festival initiative could be a big idea for Dunoon
The ever-inventive Dunoon Burgh Hall has come up with an event which has the legs to be real seller for Dunoon.Festival Director, Allan Hunter, a director of the Glasgow Film Festival, is to create a...
View ArticleThree Helensburgh and Lomond groups share £4.6k of Big Lottery funding
Three groups in Helensburgh and Lomond have together just received over £4,600 in funding from the National Lottery’s 2014 Communities micro grants programme.This offers grants of £300 to £2,000 to...
View ArticleUnveiling of strategy for Scotland’s canals
The continued renaissance of Scotland’s canals is planned to see them become busy centres of activity for recreation, tourism and sport, and act as a catalyst for wider regeneration.Transport Minister,...
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Looking at Dunoon: where next?
We’ve looked at the good, the bad and the downright ugly in Dunoon – and there are plenty of all of them.The question is what the town can do with itself as it stands on the edge of being...
View ArticleReminder: Argyll’s first cancer support service opens Friday
This is a reminder that this Friday, 7th February, a new service providing information and support for people affected by cancer will open in Campbeltown Library.The universally respected Macmillan...
View ArticleBaillie anger at fifth postponement of report on 6 year old C.Diff outbreak
Local MSP, Jackie Baillie has responded in anger to the announcement that the official report into the deadly Clostridium Difficile [C.Diff] outbreak at the Vale of Leven Hospital has been delayed yet...
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‘Six percent. Down’s Syndrome: My Photographs, Their Stories’
A unique photographic exhibition, with a painfully revelatory title, is now showing at Inverness’s lovely Eden Court Theatre, presented by Down’s Syndrome Scotland, aiming to dissolve the stigma...
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