Scottish Government’s Oban Forum on first ever Land Use Strategy

The future of Scotland’s land is to be debated in Oban. Continue reading

Inside Out: You wouldn’t want these people running the country

Book Cover Copyright Jeremy Young /Sunday Times /NI International Back Cover of Peter Watt Inside Out Copyright Jeremy Young /Sunday Times /NI International

They didn’t do budgets, never knew when there would be money for a £1 million monthly salary bill and ran Continue reading

Duke of Argyll abseils Inveraray Castle for Stramash

Duke of Argyll abseiling Inveraray Castle for Stramash. Copyright John PatrickIn a move that may well stir the competitive urge in Britain’s younger Dukes, the 13th Duke of Argyll could not have demonstrated more powerfully how far, as Patron, he is on message with Argyll’s newest social enterprise – Stramash.

At yesterday’s launch of Stramash, handed over into independence by Council Leader Dick Walsh from its parent body, Argyll and Bute Council, its Patron literally descended from the heights of his ancestral seat, a living statement of Stramash’s motto, ‘inspiration through adventure’. Continue reading