Today’s travel updates
Thursday, May 17th, 2012 (Updated 00.01) Weather. Roads. Ferries. Information sources.
Crarae Garden: Gales, devastation and a strange beauty
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
At this very moment there's a natural film set waiting for a survivalist movie - just off the A83 at Crarae GardenIslay High pupils to be John Muir Award Gaelic guides to wild places
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
An innovative and culturally fascinating new project is on the move on the Isle of Islay.Argyll First present strong case on A83 to Petitions Committee
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
The Argyll First group of councillors - invited to address today's hearingTrailblazing week-long WWII and Arctic Convoy event sparks action
Monday, May 14th, 2012
The hugely successful WWII event organised last week by the Russian Arctic Convoy Museum Project at AultbeaEllis Cameron: Stone setting
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
The past week or two, I’ve been working on my new Glasgow School of Art (GSA) project – Stone Setting.Island Moments
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
Island Moments is the headline title of Catherine Wilson's latest book for Ailsapress.Lochgilphead Red Star win Coronation Cup – and the homecoming
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
(Updated below on the hoof.) According to one of their major fans, Councillor Dougie Philand (who also took the photographs),Islay’s Ailsapress: magic moments
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
Small publishers are the truffles below the oaks of any culture - hidden, valuable and the carriers of specialist delight.
They can develop from almost anything - like a meeting of creative spirits, a camping trip to the Western Isles, two novel ponies, a cat with no tail, a spell (literally) on Taransay and the enduring witchery of Islay.
Islay's Ailsapress sprang from such a base.Wonder what’s inside Inveraray Castle?
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
This Sunday - 13th May 2012, between 10.00 and 17.00 - Inveraray Castle, seat of the ChiefArgyll and the Isles celebrates Heart of Argyll’s £150k Creative Scotland award
May 17th, 2012 Despite being home to some of Scotland’s most significant ancient natural and cultural heritage,
‘Once upon a time thre was a currency called the Euro’
May 16th, 2012 This was the title of an article published two weeks ago by online trend analysts, Precogz.
Now see for yourself: For Argyll challenges anyone to say SPR plans for Argyll Array at Tiree are acceptable
May 16th, 2012 After making spurious claims that they had already done so - exposed by the vigorous No Tiree Array
Community Land Scotland takes cudgels to Crown Estate Commission
May 16th, 2012 Community Land Scotland has written to the Secretary of State for Scotland - on behalf
Double edged message in government announcement of new Marine Harvest investment
May 16th, 2012 It is hard not to consider that the political agenda in the drive to create an apparently sustainable economic future
ARSN statement on school meals issue
May 16th, 2012 The Argyll Rural School Network has issued the following press statement:
Government website for public sector contracts showing results
May 16th, 2012 The Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) site advertises billions of pounds of contracts
Scottish Government support for Arctic Convoy medal – but why not award a Scottish medal?
May 16th, 2012 Transport Minister, Keith Brown, has given £5,000 to the Russian Arctic Convoy Museum
River Awe’s flows revised to improve fish spawning and juvenile fish numbers
May 15th, 2012 Argyll’s biggest river, the Awe, which has been harnessed for hydro since the late 1950s,
Arbroath’s Councillor Ewan Smith now Angus Vice Convener of Education
May 15th, 2012 News of Arbroath's Muirfield Action Group champion has reached us
Thompson challenges discrimination against first time home buyers
May 15th, 2012 Dave Thompson, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch has written to Chief Secretary
Early morning launch for Oban lifeboat today
May 15th, 2012 At 4:40am today, Tuesday 15th May, the Oban lifeboat was tasked
License charges for performances in Argyll and Bute: Russell warns of cultural threat
May 15th, 2012 In a statement on a matter which has been of great recent concern
More results from vote analysis in Argyll and Bute council election
May 15th, 2012 With almost all of the base figures now available from the council election on 3rd May 2012,
Was no Scottiish University capable of doing the mathematical model on the impact of minimum pricing of alcohol?
May 14th, 2012 Deputy First Minister and Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has just said on Newsnight Scotland
Argyll First address Holyrood Petitions Committee on A83 tomorrow
May 14th, 2012 Tomorrow, Tuesday 15th May 2012, the Argyll First group of councillors is addressing
School Meals saga: Council distorts facts and blocks Martha’s blog
May 14th, 2012 This story just gets worse.
In the Footsteps of Kings: Launch and booksigning at Kilmartin Museum
May 14th, 2012 In the Footsteps of Kings - Kilmartin House Museum's new Walking Guide to Kilmartin Glen
Sharp-eyed Rum residents nailed the jailed egg thief
May 14th, 2012 Jailed for six months at Inverness Sheriff Court on Friday (11th May) - and given a life ban
Tourism marketing seen in action
May 14th, 2012 Below is proof that the push on local tourism destination marketing in Argyll and the Isles is getting on with the job.
Confusion on Coastal Communities Fund
May 14th, 2012 In July 2011, the Crown Estate Commission and the UK Government, jointly under pressure
Why do we go where we go?
May 13th, 2012 What makes each of us choose to go to the places we go to?
Attainder: Duke of Argyll signs petition to redress a wrong out of time
May 13th, 2012 Following the failure of the Jacobite cause after the close call that was the 1745 rebellion,
Philand suggests civic reception from Council for Lochgilphead Red Star
May 13th, 2012 Councillor Dougie Philand of the Argyll First group has written to the incoming Provost of Argyll
Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibiiton at Dunoon Burgh Hall until 8th July
May 13th, 2012 One of Scotland's most unusual cultural venues, the Burgh Hall in Dunoon, is presenting
Campbeltown and all-comers invited to view the reopened Royal Hotel
May 12th, 2012 Campbeltown has just seen the night sky rocket the news of the reopening
Reader looking for Summer Isles stamps
May 12th, 2012 Can anyone help?
Streamline challenge on Northern Ferries tender underlines paralysis of MacBrayne group
May 12th, 2012 It's a very short time since the revelation that the Scottish Government
Hi-Arts Team hits Argyll with Crowdfunding
May 12th, 2012 The HI-Arts Team is hitting Argyll this month (May 2012) with Crowdfunding Workshops
SNH warns motorists of deer on the roads
May 12th, 2012 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is warning that car accidents involving deer