Joke of the week
New Transport Minister, Humza Yousaf, set off for the wild west to hear for himself the continuing complaints of the residents of ...
12 months ago
Prime Minister May clear that Scotland stays in the British union
In what was described as a ‘positive’ meeting today, 15th July, beween the new UK Prime Minister, Theresa May and the ...
12 months ago
The measure of Britain – who cares about Gibraltar?
95.9% of the population of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar voted to stay in the EU.
British Overseas Territories are ...
12 months ago
Recital at Kilmun not to be missed
Following a lovely short recital for the Friends of Historic Kilmun and guests a few weeks ago, Frank Barclay is now giving a full ...
12 months ago
Johnson’s first outing as Foreign Secretary should be to Russia
As a Russian speaker, Boris Johnson will be able to communicate directly with President Putin. How many other senior Western ...
12 months ago
Next Argyll locations due for fibre broadband rollout
The Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme underpins the Scottish Government’s aim for Scotland to become a more capably ...
12 months ago
May’s Cabinet looking good as it emerges
[Updated below 14th July] Prime Minister Theresa May has started as she clearly means to go on:
laying out the priorities for her ...
12 months ago
Inveraray Highland Games hosts World Caber Championships for 8th successive year
Inveraray Highland Games on 19th July is, for the eighth year running, hosting the World Caber Championships – sponsored by ...
12 months ago
Record number of dancers for Cowal Highland Gathering
A record number of the world’s best Highland Dancers have registered to compete at next month’s Cowal Highland Gathering [CHG] in ...
12 months ago
Dalavich Improvement Group seeks to buy Forestry Commission land
Dalavich Improvement Group [DIG] has applied to the National Forest Land Scheme [NFLS] to purchase four areas of land around Dalavich ...
12 months ago
Illyria to perform MIdsummer Night’s Dream at Helensburgh’s Maciintosh Hill House
The award-winning theatre company, Illyria, is celebrating their 25th year with one of Shakespeare’s best-known comedies, as the ...
12 months ago
Tobermory Harbour Association plans to buy land, pier and buildings at Aros Pier
Tobermory Harbour Association [THA] has applied to the National Forest Land Scheme [NFLS] to purchase 1.19 hectares of land at Aros ...
12 months ago
Big Lottery Scotland Community Assets Fund has £45M to spend between now and 2020
Big Lottery Scotland has announced today, 13th July 2016, that it is to spend £45 Million between now and 2o2o in supporting ...
12 months ago
Apologies for loss of service
The For Argyll website was unavailable for the previous two days and we wee unable to access it ourselves.
Our server domain host had ...
12 months ago
Leadsom quits with May to become PM
Conservative leadership candidate, Andrew Leadsom, has quit the final contest to become party leader and next Prime Minister of the ...
12 months ago
Helensburgh’s Gordon Reid wins first Wimbledon Men’s Wheelchair Singles competition
Helensburgh’s amazing athlete, Gordon Reid, has now added to his stellar record his win in the final of the first Men’s ...
12 months ago
Waiting – successfully – for beavers with Philip Price of Loch Visions
Philip Price of Loch Visions is one of Argyll’s best known specialist wildlife photographers. He is also unusual as one who made ...
12 months ago
Conservative leadership contest heading for car crash comedy
The two-woman finale of the Conservative Party Leadership contest is coming perilously close to a serial comedy car crash.
The big ...
12 months ago
Heritage Lottery Fund support for Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust’s smartphone app to record cetacean sightings
A new smartphone app allowing whale-watch operators and other seafarers to record sightings of whales, dolphins and porpoises is to be ...
12 months ago
Transport Minister says next Gourock Dunoon ferry contract will bring bigger vessels to the route
Humza Yusaf, Minister for Transport and the Islands, has announced that the next contract for the Gourock-Dunoon ferry service will ...
12 months ago
MoD announces Scottish site ruled out as host for nuclear waste from redundant submarines
Chapelcross, on the Solway Firth near Annan – the site of Scotland’s first nuclear power station in business, has been one ...
12 months ago
Musical chairs again at Machrihanish wind tower plant – with new owner, new investment, possible new major contract and possible hike in jobs
The recent takeover by yet another owner of the wind turbine tower manufacturing plant at Machrihanish in Kintyre – this time ...
12 months ago
Mary’s Meals to benefit from Scotland’s toughest one-day endurance event
More than 250 quadrathletes are finalising training preparations as they get ready to go head-to-head for the Artemis Great Kindrochit ...
12 months ago
Davidson meets Europe Minister on Brexit negotiations
Scottish Conservative Leader and Leader of the Opposition t Holyrood, Ruth Davidson, has met with Europe Minister, David Lidington, to ...
12 months ago
O’Hara welcomes funding awards to Argyll ‘grassroots’ charities
Brendan O’Hara, SNP MP for Argyll and Bute, has welcomed £14,960 in grants for local charities from Lloyds TSB Foundation for ...
12 months ago
Blair reverts to his end-of-the-pier-show in attempted self-exculpation after Chilcot does rather well
The man well known for his strategic actor’s pauses, his half catch in the throat, his hauling out of cheap emotion in defence ...
12 months ago
Review of 1786 book: An account of the present state of the Hebrides and Western Coasts of Scotland
Fisherman, lifeboat coxswain [Mallaig] and author, Tom Ralston’s remarkable understanding of the lives he has led and of the ...
12 months ago
Loch Lomond Waterbus service opens new route today
A new route has started today, 6th July 2016, on the fantastic Loch Lomond Waterbus service, opening up new opportunities for visitors ...
12 months ago
Unless Chilcot is unequivocal about Blair, his report will be fundamentally discredited
The Chilcot report, due to be published later this morning, 6th July 2016, is, of course, caught between a rock and a hard place ...
12 months ago
Early arrival of uncertainties on EU funding of collaborative academic research
It is being reported that there is already evidence of the precautionary retreat from Britain of EU research funding and of ...
12 months ago
SNP Council Group strategically target attack on new independent councillor for Oban North & Lorn
Recently elected independent Councillor for Oban North and Lorn, Kieron Green, has been the target for clearly strategic attack by ...
12 months ago
Letter from Europe: After the Referendum
Nicky Gardner, who is co-editor of the specialist and always intriguing print magazine, hidden europe, is just back from a journey ...
12 months ago
Nation tensed for results of Conservative party leadership context? Not
[Updated below 21.45] This a time for all would be forecasters t0 get it right in the money.
Dr Liam Fox will be first out tonight.
Of ...
12 months ago
Top legal firm sponsoring economic development initiative of Highlands North Coast 500 scenic drive route
Top legal firm, Burness Paull, has underlined its commitment to the Highlands region by signing up as a corporate sponsor of the North ...
12 months ago
Gove speaks on his belief in Brexit as European ceremony at Thiepval commemorates centenary of shared blood sacrifice
In a morning of painfully bizarre conflicting images, 10,000 members of the public from across the participant nations gathered at the ...
12 months ago
Numbers of threatened curlews on the up with assistance from gamekeepers
Scottish gamekeepers have been taking action to help the threatened curlew and are reporting a healthy number of sightings on moors ...
12 months ago
Johnson remained the entertainer while Gove sold his integrity and his friends
Boris Johnson and Michael Gove managed to win it all and lose it all in an exact week – the ‘all’ in question being ...
12 months ago
A plea – if Theresa May becomes PM
Let’s have a leading politician who does not Twitter.
There is a Twitter account in May’s name which would seem to be ...
12 months ago
Boris Johnson bows out – Gove shafting proved fatal
In a press conference thought to be – and feeling like – about launching his candidacy for the conservative leadership ...
12 months ago
Gove shafts Johnson as May moves to take Conservative leadership
The shock news this morning is that the two top Brexiteers have parted company.
Michael Gove has announced that he is to run ...
12 months ago