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Voyage to Murmansk: a convoy of memories
Take a 16 year old cabin boy with the New Zealand Shipping Company who became a 60s pop singer and party animal capable of leaving the Rolling Stones standing.Add a sprinkling of veterans of the World...
View ArticleSleep-starved Mid Argyll Pool Board submits Business Plan to Council
The heroic new Board of the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool has now submitted a 3 Year Business Plan and Cash Flow Projections to Argyll and Bute Council.Stephen Whiston Chair of the Board says: ‘The cash...
View ArticleMajor benefit for Dunoon Burgh Hall team from January meeting
Following the community meeting at the end of January, chaired by Jim Mather, the Dunoon Burgh Hall team has recorded no fewer than 30 people at the next committee meeting and a lot more signing up as...
View ArticleThanks to ‘redundant’ Willie Young – not retiring and raring to go
[Updated 16th March] Argyll’s young folk are fitter, faster and more self confident; and a lot of adults are first class sports coaches. Argyll and Bute Council’s sports supremo, Willie Young, left his...
View ArticleSSE’s record breaking efforts for Kintyre and Arran
All households in Kintyre and Arran were reconnected to network supply by close of play on Thursday 28th March, with SSE engineers using wooden poles to bypass the collapsed towers – which totalled ten...
View ArticleVisit Arran scores a hit in advance of Scottish Tourism Expo tomorrow
Today, Visit Arran got a link to BBC Scotland for the lunchtime news, focusing on a herd of hampers they had made up and asking who the lucky recipients were to be.They are for all of the SSE engineers...
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Arctic Convoy navies celebrated at Loch Ewe as surviving veterans receive...
High on the hillside above Loch Ewe yesterday, 9th May 2013, the Gods smiled with sunshine, warmth and no wind on an assembled crowd of veterans of the World War II Arctic Convoys to north Russia;...
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Launch of JoLoMo Retrospective Exhibition at new Clydebank Town Hall Gallery
Yesterday morning West Dunbartonshire Council and Museums and Galleries Scotland presided over the opening of a Retrospective Exhibition of the work of Argyll artist, John Lowrie Morrison – aka JoLoMo...
View ArticleCMAL’s CEO moves on to trade body, UK Chamber of Shipping
Guy Platten, CEO of Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited [CMAL], is leaving to join the UK Chamber of Shipping as its CEO, after six years leading CMAL since the Scottish Government-owned asset holding...
View ArticleArgyll toddlers raised over £1,700 for Barnardo’s Scotland
Barnardo’s Scotland want to say a big ‘Thank you’ to all of the toddlers from Creation Station in Oban, Clyde Cottage Nursery in Dunoon, Little Flowers in Renfrew, Dalintober Primary Pre Five Unit in...
View ArticleFirst Minister’s revelatory refusal to pay Scotland’s share of upkeep of Head...
The news that Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is refusing to pay the £2 million a year that is assigned to Scotland towards the costs of the Royal Family raises a series of questions and...
View ArticleA83 closed between Glenbarr and Campbeltown and flooded at Tarbert
[Updated 15.15] As of 09.35, the A83 is closed in both directions between Glenbarr and Campbeltown because of an ongoing incident at Kilkenzie. There is a diversion in place.Police Scotland closed the...
View ArticleLabour candidate for Argyll & Bute challenged by SNP candidate on Blair funding
Across Britain, in what are now known to have been 106 Labour target seats, the party’s candidates are coming under pressure from opponents to return the pocket money of £1000 which the former UK Prime...
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