Auchindrain success with inaugural Food Fair

Auchindrain Food Festiva;

If one can describe great weather as ‘a following wind’ this was how the gods smiled on Auchindrain’s first Food Fair Continue reading

MV Ocean Nova call at Oban opens up some travel options

Ocean Nova at Oban North Pier

An immediately unusual boat – the MV Ocean Nova, was at Oban’s North pier – and was the length of it – Continue reading

2012 Scottish Islands Peaks Race Oban to Troon – just finished

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The mighty challenge of the Scottish Islands’ Peaks Race was all over Oban on Friday Continue reading

Festival of the Sea launches with a unique CD, algae, storytelling and virtual landscapes

View from submarine cave off Brittany into giant algae field

The 2012 Festival of the Sea, run by the Scottish Marine Institute (aka SAMS) Continue reading

4 Championship events for Helensburgh and Lomond Highland Games

(Updated 20.30 17th May) Helensburgh and Lomond Highland Games – on Saturday 2nd June 2012 – features Continue reading

Crarae Garden: Gales, devastation and a strange beauty

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At this very moment there’s a natural film set waiting for a survivalist movie – just off the A83 at Crarae Garden Continue reading

Now see for yourself: For Argyll challenges anyone to say SPR plans for Argyll Array at Tiree are acceptable

After making spurious claims that they had already done so – exposed by the vigorous No Tiree Array Continue reading

Double edged message in government announcement of new Marine Harvest investment

It is hard not to consider that the political agenda in the drive to create an apparently sustainable economic future Continue reading

River Awe’s flows revised to improve fish spawning and juvenile fish numbers

Argyll’s biggest river, the Awe, which has been harnessed for hydro since the late 1950s, Continue reading

Argyll First present strong case on A83 to Petitions Committee

Counciullors Donald Kelly and John NcAlpine at Holyrood for petitions committee on A83

The Argyll First group of councillors – invited to address today’s hearing Continue reading