Transport Scotland’s response to Public Petitions Committee on A83
Along with its response to the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee hearing of the Argyll First led petition on the A83, Transport Scotland has included a document on its evaluation of the...
View ArticleArgyll Community Council in windfarm complaint to UN in Geneva
In a David and Goliath confrontation, the community council for the little Avich and Kilchrenan [AKCC] townships on Loch Aweside, has taken its complaint about proliferation of windfarms in Argyll to...
View ArticleRSPCA compromised by Freedom Food certification for farmed salmon
The Salmon & Trout Association has published a report commissioned from Guy Linley-Adams, a solicitor and member: ‘RSPCA / Freedom Food certification of Scottish farmed salmon’.Freedom Food is the...
View ArticleScottish Government stripped of mask of competence in report on impact of...
The ‘emerging’ findings of the consultants report on the ‘Impact of the Removal of Road Equivalent Tariff [RET] Fares from Commercial Vehicles on The Western Isles, Coll and Tiree’ have to be read.They...
View ArticleValuable HIE report on Minimum Income Standard for Remote Rural Scotland
Highlands and Islands Enterprise [HIE] has recently published a thought provoking report: A Minimum Income Standard for Remote Rural Scotland.This has been based on research with ’24 groups of...
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Second Western Ferries boat launched in a week
MV Isle of Seil followed her sister ship into the waters of the Mersey this afternoon, 25th July 2013, from the Cammell Laird Construction Hall in Birkenhead.MV Sound of Soay made her own splash a...
View ArticleIndependence, sport, funding and ambition
Former Scottish First Minister, Labour’s Henry McLeish is to chair a Working Group on Scottish Sport.Since he left office through ‘a muddle, not a fiddle’, McLeish has progressively grown in status as...
View ArticleWe’ve had the prenup, now meet the matchmaker
The draft agreement to frame the proposed council coalition between the Argyll and Bute for Change Alliance and the SNP Group is to go to a vote at the SNP Group meeting tomorrow, Monday 23rd...
View ArticleMore evidence of questionable integrity of process at senior level in Argyll...
A source outside the council has given For Argyll copies of two emails which are not only interesting of themselves but provide evidence that lessons from the Audit Scotland report concerning...
View ArticleAudit Scotland get the message and nail the council’s deception on Castle...
Audit Scotland appears to have realised the culture of deception routinely practised at Argyll and Bute Council. The national audit commission refused to investigate a major and demonstrated deception...
View ArticleTransport Scotland publishes the inevitable results of its efforts to recruit...
The outcome has just been published of Transport Scotland’s energetic engagement with ferry operators in an attempt to recruit interest from the private sector to bid to provide a vehicle carrying...
View ArticleThe people and the election: influences the Scottish Affairs Committee ignored
In its recently published report on evidence submitted during its enquiries – The Referendum on Separation for Scotland: no doubt – no currency union – the Scottish Affairs Committee of the House of...
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Oban North and Lorn by-election count under way: indications, analyses, result
[Updated 12.00 below] The count for the Oban North and Lorn by-election result for the vacant seat in Ward 5 of Argyll and Bute Council, is under way.Indications are that the SNP candiddate Iain S...
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 ArticleNew information dictates new start for the ADP addiction services contract
In June 2014, Argyll and Bute Council’s procurement team issued an Invitation To Tender [ITT] to provide Argyll and Bute-wide community addiction recovery services.The deadline for the submission of...
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