Anyone from Argyll planning to go up to the Western Isles via the ferry from Ullapool between now and Tuesday - and who has not already booked - should contact Calmac on 0800 665000 to identify a suitable alternative date. The company announced this afternoon that it has had to close further bookings for sailings [...]
Inveraray has been angered to discover that NHS Highland was withdrawing funds it told them eighteen months ago were in place and allocated to the building of a new doctor’s surgery in the town. The money is now to go to providing improved dental services in Campbeltown, Oban and Dunoon. Ironically the planned new surgery [...]
The Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust will be publshing a fun 2009 calendar later this Autumn. The photos are pretty surreal - a Trust Board meeting held with all attending up to their knees in the sea, an islander with a halibut in his ear, pensioners shadow-boxing on the pier. (Why not the real thing?) [...]
Inveraray has just enjoyed a visit from a much respected world explorer yacht, the 34 metre Kiring, on charter out of its base at Viareggio in Italy. The Kiring was built in 1993 and refitted in 2002 with an interior design by Terence Drisdale. It has just been sold for US$ 7 million. It [...]
VisitScotland has just published the results of an online survey it commissioned to discover what visitors to Scotland most enjoyed doing here. Top of the list was watching dolphins in the Moray Firth, followed, in second place by aerial views of Argyll, courtesy of Loch Lomond Seaplanes. In sixth place was picknicking at Rest [...]
BAE Systems Submarine Solutions at Barrow-in-Furness is due to deliver HMS Astute, the first submarine of its class, to the Royal Navy at the end of August 2008. Launched by the Duchess of Cornwall on 8th June 2007, Astute is intended to be in service this November.She and her sister vessels, Ambush and Artful, will [...]
This does sound like something Private Eye would have fun with, but the GRAB Trust (Group for Recycling in Argyll & Bute) is looking for volunteers to be part of its new Master Composting Project. You will be trained in successful home composting techniques and you’ll then be in a position to pass on what [...]
This refers to water supplies not provided by Scottish Water. The Scottish Government is funding the scheme which is not means tested and covers most people who use a private water supply. Grants are available up to £800 per property served by the supply. So, if you live in Argyll and Bute and you have [...]
A Rich List of Scottish streets, areas and towns - calculated by average property values - created and published by Zoopla, a property valuation website, has placed Colintraive. in the Cowal peninsula opposite the Isle of Bute, as the ninth highest value area in Scotland and the fourth highest value town with an average [...]
Argyll’s Isle of Mull has woken up to find that a piece of midnight mischief has left one of their Victorian mileposts painted shocking pink. One of only ten remaining from the original thirty mileposts on the island it informs travellers on the A849 that it is twenty-one miles to Salen (on the Sound of [...]
