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Monthly Archives: July 2010

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Inaugural Edinburgh-Oban Sunday train: the story and the analysis

Posted on July 27, 2010 by newsroom

Arrochar from first Edinburgh-Oban direct Sunday day-return train

We’ll get to the reason for this photograph shortly – by which time you’ll be ahead of us. Continue reading →

Posted in News, Tourism activities | Tagged Argyll, Edinburgh Oban train, experience, Oban Lorn Tourism Association, scotrail, Tourism, visitors, visitscotland | 10 Comments

Lochhead goes after the Crown Estate

Posted on July 27, 2010 by newsroom

And about time too. Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Fisheries and one of the Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Politics, Renewable Energy | Tagged accountability, Argyll, civil list, Crown Estate, Crown Estate Act 1961, public interest, revenues, richard lochhead, surplus | 1 Comment

Argyll link to newly-wed stabbed to death in America

Posted on July 27, 2010 by newsroom

Married only months ago in May 2010, 33 year-old Tracy Wyatt Brannan Continue reading →

Posted in Community News | Tagged Argyll, chef, fatality, Loch Fyne Oysters, Nebraska, newly wed, Omaha, son, stabbing, Tracy Brannan | Leave a comment

Open Mic Night: the Ellis Cameron column

Posted on July 25, 2010 by newsroom

Frankie MartinCameron Roxburgh 2

I went to my local Open Mic Night at Oban’s Waterfront Restaurant and Bar on Thursday 15th July, to take in Continue reading →

Posted in Music, News, Tourism activities | Tagged Argyll, help for heroes, music, Oban.Ellis Cameron, open mic night, unsigned musicians | Leave a comment

Auchindrain: the return of the runrig

Posted on July 25, 2010 by newsroom

No – it’s not the legendary Skye-based band, Runrig, with Donnie Munro – although the name Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Farming, Gaelic Culture, History, Mid Argyll, Tourism activities | Tagged Argyll, Auchindrain, Community News, crofting connections, farm township, heritage home, museum, primary schools, Runrig | Leave a comment

Minister visit’s Kilmun’s Campbell Mausoleum

Posted on July 24, 2010 by newsroom

Ministerial visit to Campbell Mausoeum

It had been a long held ambition for Cabinet Secretary for Education, Michael Russell, to visit the Campbell Mausoleum Continue reading →

Posted in Cowal, History, News, Tourism activities | 2 Comments

We told you so: Times online pay-for news failing

Posted on July 24, 2010 by newsroom

The industry estimates that The Times online news service has lost no less Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Newspapers | Tagged Argyll, audience loss, BBC, Internet news, newspapers, online news, pay walls, PINS, Times online, web presence | 1 Comment

Battle over Franz Kafka’s papers and the Scottish and Argyll Connections

Posted on July 24, 2010 by newsroom

Franz Kafka - before 1924. Image: public domain Bust of Franz Kafka in Celebrity Alley in Kielce (Poland) Copyriht Staszek Szybki Jest GNU Free Documentation

(With breaking news update below) On Monday 12th July 2010, at 10.00, armed with a court order, lawyers arrived Continue reading →

Posted in Cowal, Events, Literature, News | Tagged Argyll, Esther Hoffe, Franz Kafka, German National Archives, Max Brod, novels, papers, Tel Aviv, translation, Willa Muir Edwin Muir | 6 Comments

Serious query on scale of community benefit from local wind farms

Posted on July 24, 2010 by newsroom

A particularly well-informed site visitor has commented sharply on the scale of benefit given to – and accepted by – Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Community News, Politics, Renewable Energy | Tagged Argyll, Clachan Flats, community benefit, islay, kintyre, planning consent, planning gain, Renewable Energy, tiree, wind farms | 5 Comments

Scottish island flights may lose Air Passenger Duty exemption

Posted on July 24, 2010 by newsroom

Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, is concerned at the economic impact on the Argyll islands Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Community News, Hebridean islands, Politics | Tagged air passenger duty, Argyll, campbeltown, exemption, flights, hebridean isalnds, islands, islay, lifeline services, restructuring | 1 Comment

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