A genuine hero for our times, Robbie the Pict, who virtually single-handedly won the battle of the Skye Bridge tolls, is in action again. He is fighting to have the criminal records purged of those convicted for refusing to pay…
Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment spoke at Oxford University’s prestigious Oxford Farming Conference to an audience including Jean-Luc Demarty, the EU’s Director-General for Agriculture and Development and Westminster Environment Secretary, Hilary Benn MP. In outlining…
It’s a great combination - music and a dram - even in the imagination. The annual Celtic Connections music festival in Glasgow (keep an eye on the For Argyll Events Calendar for its torchlight launch parade on 15th January) has…
Leaders of British Governments were called First Lord of the Treasury, a title they still also hold, until the election of Glaswegian Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman in December 1905. Five days after assuming office, he took the superior title Prime Minister.
Born Henry…
The Siol Alpin seemed a good place to start an occasional feature on the Clans of Argyll - because its origin underlines the centrality of Argyll to Scotland and because not everybody has heard of it.
Cinead mac Ailpin (Keneth MacAlpin),…
The Brahan Seer was a sort of Highland Nostradamus said to have worked for the third Earl of Seaforth.
The Scottish Government is introducing two initiatives to help struggling west coast fishermen.
When you think about ‘the family tree’ there’s is after all a logic in Forestry Commission Scotland teaming up with VisitScotland in this initiative. During Homecoming Scotland 2009 the agencies want to put together a gallery of photographs from people…
Emergency’s are no respecter of national holidays. The Oban RNLI lifeboat, Mora Edith Macdonald, was called out on Christmas evening at 7.40 PM to help get a male patient from the island of Kerrera across the bay to the mainland.
The…
While the Bruichladdich Distillery on Islay has been highly successful since its management buy-out and vigorous new marketing, whisky speciaists are asking whether the astonishing frequency with which the distillery launches new products on the market may be unwise.
October saw…
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