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Monthly Archives: September 2010

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Easdale World Stone Skimming Championship on BBC News

Posted on September 23, 2010 by newsroom

Tonight’s  (23rd September 2010) 6 o’clock news on BBC1 s Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Major Events, Slate Islands, Sporting Activities, Tourism activities | Tagged Argyll.Easdale island, BBC1, Donald Melville, world stone skimming championship | 1 Comment

CNN name Mary’s Meals’ Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow in top ten Hero of the Year

Posted on September 23, 2010 by newsroom

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, the founder of the Argyll children’s food-aid charity, Continue reading →

Posted in Argyll's Achievers, Charities, Community News | Tagged Argyll, charity, children, CNN, education, food aid, hero of the year, Magnus Macfarlane Barrow, Mary's Meals, top ten | 4 Comments

100 turbine offshore wind farm opens off the Kent coast

Posted on September 23, 2010 by newsroom

Opened today, seven miles off the Kent Coast – one imaginative idea Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Renewable Energy, Sporting Activities | Tagged Argyll, Kent, offshore windfarm, powerboat slalom racing | 8 Comments

UN Human Rights Council: ‘clear evidence to prosecute Israel for wilful killing’

Posted on September 23, 2010 by newsroom

A United Nations panel of three senior international lawyers Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Politics | Tagged aid flotilla, Argyll, brutality, deaths, Gaza, international waters, Israel, Mavi Marmara, UN Human Rights Council, wilful killing | 1 Comment

Ferry tales

Posted on September 22, 2010 by newsroom

This has all got very overheated lately. The west coast ferry network is to be Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Community News, Politics | Tagged Argyll, Arts & Culture, CalMac, cherry-picking, CMAL, Northlink, Pentland Ferries.subsidy, Scottish Ferries Review, unbundling routes, West Coast | 10 Comments

Two Oban organisations benefit from return of Lloyds TSB Foundation

Posted on September 22, 2010 by newsroom

Good news for the voluntary sector is the return to funding Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Funding | Tagged Argyll, Funding, grants, Home Start, Jim Mather, Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland, Oban Youth cafe, voluntary sector | Leave a comment

Vince Cable: the great ‘I’

Posted on September 22, 2010 by newsroom

Did anyone else count the number and emphasis of the ‘Is’ in Vince Cable’s address Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Politics | Tagged Argyll, egotist, LibDem Conference, St Vincent, Vince Cable | 5 Comments

Glasgow Pioneers took the City to the forefront of European art

Posted on September 22, 2010 by newsroom

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Glasgow has many reputations, past and present, and is not alone in that respect in the world of the industrial megalopolis. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Literature, News | Tagged Alexander Reid, Argyll, Art, Books Editor, Dorothy Brice, exhibition, Glasgow Boys, Grez Sur Loing, Russell Bruce | 1 Comment

Oban Airport Airshow highlights the need for change

Posted on September 22, 2010 by newsroom

The photographs on the forum contribution – linked below – show how Oban Airport should be: Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Community News, Local Government, Sporting Activities, Tourism activities | Tagged Argyll, Argyll & Bute Council, leisure flying, Oban Airport, Oban Airshow, Paul Keegan, private flying, scheduled air services, Total Logistics Concepts | Leave a comment

Seas Open for Saltire Prize or is it the Crown Estate Commissioners grabbing while they can?

Posted on September 22, 2010 by newsroom

Interpret this action as you will but the reality is that the Crown Estate’s rights Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Community News, Politics, Renewable Energy | Tagged Argyll, bids, Crown Estate, leasing round, revenue, saltire prize, scottish election, Scottish Government, scottish seas, tactic | 3 Comments

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