Council view on roads development
At its recent invitation-only session on the A83, from which Argyll and Bute Council wanted help to get its views on the A83 at Rest and Be Thankful straightened out, it was agreed that, as For Argyll...
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Major international award for CMAL’s MV Hallaig
On Thursday night, 26th June, Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd [CMAL] won a prestigious international award at the first Electric & Hybrid Marine Awards in Amsterdam.The award for Electric and Hybrid...
View ArticleScottish naval architect and Napier University professor identify viable...
Alf Baird, Professor of Maritime Business at Napier University in Edinburgh, is well known as an informed and challenging voice on issues around the management of Scotland’s ferry operations.Stuart...
View ArticleLaw Society of Scotland paper clarifies the indy landscape
The paper published today, 14th July, by the Law Society of Scotland – on Scotland’s Constitutional Future could not be more useful in mapping out the constitutional landscape of independence.The...
View ArticleGrangemouth importing cheap shales gives insight into North Sea production
The news yesterday, 17th July, of the UK Government’s £230 million loan to owner, Ineos, for the Grangemouth Refinery to build a gigantic ethane storage tank to support its planned import of cheap...
View ArticleAlan Reid visit supports Machrihanish Airbase campaign for United Kingdom...
Alan Reid, Argyll & Bute’s hard-working MP, paid a visit to Machrihanish Airbase west of Campbeltown in Kintyre last Tuesday.The MP was there to hear about the plans being put forward in the...
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Game changing intervention as Labour candidate resolves Argyll black hole for...
Actions always do speak louder than words. Mary Galbraith, Labour’s candidate for Argyll and Bute in the 2015 General Election, is constantly told of weak mobile phone reception, ‘not-spots’ with zero...
View ArticleCorporate quadrille in airport sales weakens force of competition law
It was announced yesterday, 17th October 2014, that Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports had been sold by Heathrow Airports Holdings to a consortium of Spain’s Ferrovial and Australia’s Macquarie...
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 ArticleDate change for economic summit in Dunoon rules Russell out – again
Local MSP, the SNPs Michael Russell has been impeded for the second time in taking part in the Economic Summit to be held in Dunoon’s Queen’s Hall this coming Wednesday.The event is being hosted by...
View ArticleArgyll & Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership: addicted to abuse
On the evidence below – For Argyll is calling for an urgent independent and independently appointed, external investigation of what appear to be serious problems at Argyll & Bute’s Alcohol and...
View ArticleCompromised Greens ask questions of Scottish Government on future of wave...
The Scottish Greens are a muted force these days, having thrown their lot in willy nilly with the SNP and the separatist movement – at the cost of their integrity in deciding to say nothing to warn...
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£5m Crianlarich bypass open today
Today marks the first opportunity for users of the A82 and A85 to use the new Crianlarich Bypass – pictured above. The £5 million bypass includes the construction of a new 1.3 km stretch of the A82. It...
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Why North Sea is crisis for UK
A big part of the economic landscape of 2015 – and onwards - is the sharp fall in the price of oil, threatening continuing production in the North Sea, employment and state revenues. This will be the...
View ArticleAstonishing infrastructural deficiency threatens Oban’s business development
It would seem that once-bitten is more twice-bitten than twice shy in Oban.The father and son business partnership of Alan and Callum Macleod have been bitten already with Argyll and Bute Council’s...
View ArticleRace is on for Cape Campbeltown: Russell tables parliamentary motion backing...
Michael Russell, MSP for Argyll and Bute, has tabled a motion in the Scottish Parliament urging support for Machrihanish as the location for the proposed UK Space Port.The final shortlist for...
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MV Loch Seaforth for Stornoway-Ullapool: a tale of public sector ‘management’
This is a tale of the Scottish Government, Transport Scotland, CMAL [Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited], the money markets, Stornoway Harbour, Ullapool Harbour, the Flensburger shipyard in Germany,...
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Is Scottish Government taking out Campbeltown to give Prestwick a clear run...
On 3rd March 2015, Highlands and Islands Airports Limited [HIAL] made a curious and little noticed statement on the very tail of the UK Government announcement that it is not to consider the RAF bases...
View ArticleTwo compelling programes coming up on BBC ALBA
The fresh programming of BBC ALBA on which we so regularly remark, is coming to the fore again with two programmes scheduled to air shortly.The offshore world of oil and gasThe first – on 30th April...
View ArticleSNP manifesto to ‘rebalance UK’– but what about Scotland?
The SNP manifesto for the UK May General Election released today is described by its evangelist, First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, as ‘full of ideas’ – which it is.However, it provides evidence that the...
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