The growing success of the new fast passenger ferry from Craighouse on Jura to Tayvallich on Argyll’s Kintyre mainland at Loch Sween may just have another benefit to offer. The village shop at Tayvallich has been for sale with no takers for a year. The owner is unable to carry on through another winter and [...]
The capacity of Argyll’s Isle of Gigha ferry berth at Tayinloan on the mainland to get badly silted with weed during driving winter storms causes service cancellations each year. With bad weather a further contributor to an unpredictable schedule, islanders are concerned abut the degree of disruption to their children’s education and are exploring arrangements [...]
The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) has been awarded over £1.5 million by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), from March 2009 until 2014. This is designed to enable SAMS to continue hosting the national facility for scientific diving and the accompanying decompression chamber at Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory near Oban in Argyll.
The decompression (hyperbaric) [...]
Argyll sees this year’s Mull of Kintyre Music Festival - at Campbeltown from 21st to 24th August - with a lively and varied programme headlining The Justin Currie Band (Justin fronted Del Amitri in the ’80s) and Capercaillie. Also featuring are Skippinish, BOdega, Attic Lights, Jarlath Henderso and Innes Watson, Rod Paterson, Archie McAllister and [...]
July 19th and 20th will see Argyll’s third Dunstaffnage Music Festival, just north of Oban - and visitors will see over seventy bands rock up on five stages, alongside DJs, comedians and street performers. Acts this year include the rock band, Pop Up, ska specialists Pama International, Nanobots, Skippinish and Sorren MacLean. Local bands will [...]
The paddle steamer, Maid of the Loch - lying at Balloch on Loch Lomond and the last such boat built in Britain, is being restored. She has now had two new masts fitted in her first refit since 1978. The originals rotted away long ago. Her restoration will add to the spectrum of ttractions Argyll [...]
This 70th Anniversary of Argyll’s Mull Provincial Mod has seen a competition to mark the occasion - write a song for Mull. There are only four days left to the deadline on 15th July, so get your entry in. The competition has four categories: music and lyrics (adult); music and lyrics (youth); music to lyrics [...]
Over sixty islanders on Jura turned up to a meeting with senior Argyll and Bute Council officers involved in the disastrous contract for the new slipway at Port Askaig on Islay. This is so flawed that it cannot safely be used by the Jura ferry to Feolin. Andy Law, Director of Operational Services and Peter [...]
The Isle of Coll’s Development Coll has been given £1,220 by the area committee of Oban, Lorn and the Isles as 50% of the £2,440 costs of running a series of summer events involving the island’s young people.
Alasdair Morrison has been appointed as Chairman of the Gaelic Media service - MG ALBA. by Ofcom. The appointment takes effect from this month and is for a period of four years.
Alastair Morrison is the former Labour MSP for the Western Isles who lost his seat in the May 2007 election. He was Deputy Minister [...]
