There were lively audiences for the recent open days at Oban Lifeboat and at the Northern Lighthouse Board HQ with its new ship, the NLV Pharos, coming into service last year and responsible for servicing around two hundred lighthouses, one hundred and fifty seven buoys and forty beacons. Visitors to the Pharos also got a [...]
Mark Sunday 28th September in red - it’s the date of the annual World Stone Skimming Championships at Easdale Island on the mainland coast, south of Oban. One of Argyll’s slate islands, the natural resources of the place guarantee a limitless supply of material for the contest. Definitely one not to be missed, you can [...]
See details in our Golf.forargyll site, but also have a look at the neat website Askernish Golf Club have created to mark their acheivement and from which they’ll launch a live webcast next Friday when Kenny Dalglish formally opens the restored eighteen-hole links course.
We can’t underwrite the basis for the judgment but The Herald has named the spa at Argyll’s Cameron House Hotel on Loch Lomond as being the Scottish spa offering the most therapies - massages, wraps, scrubs, facials, Kur therapies and Rasul mud. Wonder how thie last of these matches up to Strachur’s recent swamp soccer?
A report commissioned by the Scottish Government and published yesterday criticised the bus access to Kilmartin Glen In Argyll, with over 350 ancient monuments. The report, concerned with improving access to cultural activities in Scotland, noted that Kilmartin Museum had only a limited bus service with ‘inconsistent timetabling’ from its provider, West Coast Motors. It [...]
The 2008 Piping Live Festival in Glasgow, the fifth, runs throughout this week and finishes with an expected audience of around 40,000 for the World Pipe Band Championship on Glasgow Green on Saturday 16th August. FOr Argyll’s many excellent pipe bands and their fans, this is the highlight of the year.
Councillor Duncan MacIntyre, Argyll & Bute Council’s Transport Spokesperson expects that the Council’s commissioned appraisal of transport links between the islands of Seil and Easdale will be delivered in September. The Council should then be in a position to make an informed decision on the matter. The appraisal has been concerned with improving reliability of [...]
A virus and unusual water states has left the French oyster industry with mortality rates ranging from 40% - 100% according to area. Seven billion oysters are dead or dying. The inevitable deficit in supply to the French market is now thought likely to reach around 40,000 tonnes per annum. The silver lining in this [...]
[ August 23, 2008; ] The 2008 Coll Half Marathon will be held on 23rd August 2008.
Mull Theatre Company is running a busy and varied programme of performances in Tobermory this month and next. On 19th August at Druimfin in Tobermory they’re playing Sex and Chocolate (you couldn’t ask for more than that) , taking this confection to the Village Hall in Fionnphort on 22nd August. On 20th August - also [...]
