Scalpay islanders accept gift of their island and partner North Harris
A majority of 197 to 8 has seen the islanders of Scalpay accept the proffered gift of their island from its English laird, Fred Taylor.Scalpay was once an island – still is, really, but in 1997, as was...
View ArticleNATIONHOOD: The For Argyll Referendum Project
Think about Scotland in 2050. What sort of a country do you want it to be by then? Prepare to share that vision.We’re not interested in the ‘now’ or in the vested interests and mantras of either Better...
View ArticleCouncil considers outsourcing economic development
Having chosen to appoint to the post of Executive Director for Economic Development and Infrastructure a waste management specialist who happened to be personally known to the Chief Executive, Argyll...
View ArticleCouncil unable to sustain the Dunoon population summit – cancelled
Argyll and Bute Council has just cancelled the ‘Population Summit’ it was hosting this Friday, 9th May 2104, at the Queen’s Hall in Dunoon.This action has been taken because the headline speaker,...
View ArticleCouncil’s cancelled Population Summit: it gets worse
Two more pieces of information make even more hay of Argyll and Bute Council’s ramshackle decision to cancel their entire invitation-only ‘Population Summit’ in Dunoon tomorrow, 9th May – because the...
View ArticleSwinney offered Russell as substitution for population summit within hours of...
Argyll and Bute Council appears to have been very swift indeed to decide not to go ahead with the Population Summit that should have taken place on Friday 9th May in Dunoon.For Argyll has had sight of...
View ArticlePolitics, courtesy, Argyll and Bute Council and the binned population summit
For Argyll has now seen papers which demonstrate that Argyll and Bute Council treated local MSP, Michael Russell with an indefensible level of discourtesy over his participation at the so-called...
View ArticleCouncil in empty grandstanding on A83 to avoid economic development challenge
Having made a proper pig’s ear of their proposed ‘Population Summit’, Argyll and Bute Council appears to be casting around for some other popular cause to try to plant its fingerprints on. Anything but...
View ArticleAudit Scotland a curate in search of some good in a bad egg
At its meeting on 19th June, Audit Scotland is to discuss a highly anodyne follow up report it has produced on the current condition of Argyll and Bute Council. Since the national commission has gone...
View ArticleLocal MSPs prescription for the economic recovery and repopulation of Argyll...
Last Wednesday’s Economic Summit – or Depopulation Summit – was hosted by Argyll and Bute Council to mask the fact that it has no idea what to do about Argyll’s intertwined crises of a shrinking and...
View ArticleGigha community ownership on brink of failure
For Argyll warned some time ago – during the work of the Land Reform Review Group and during the rampant politicisation of land reform as a recruiting sergeant for votes for independence during the...
View ArticleMcGrigor and Redman concerned at council cuts to roads funding
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands Conservative MSP, and Alastair Redman, the party’s candidate for Argyll & Bute in the 2015 General Election, have expressed their concern over the...
View ArticleMcGrigor hopes for early parliamentary debate on Argyll’s depopulation
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands MSP, is hoping to secure Parliamentary time to allow his motion on Argyll & Bute’s projected depopulation to be debated in the Scottish Parliament within the...
View ArticleRally for Castle Toward – still a road to travel
The spirited Rally held in Dunoon on Saturday 17th January by supporters of South Cowal Community Development Company’s [SCCDC] campaign to buy the neglected Castle Toward estate from Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleMcGrigor’s cross party debate on Argyll’s depopulation crisis
On Thursday last, 22nd January, Jamie McGrigor MSP, held a debate in the Scottish Parliament on his motion on tackling Argyll & Bute’s projected depopulation.The Highlands & Islands...
View ArticlePolitically skewed perspectives threaten fairness and the rural economy in...
Scotland’s landowners today are facing a form of planned genocide born of expedient political dogma.This centres on the land reform proposal that Scottish Ministers should intervene to force sales if...
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