A sharp eye spotted a basking shark in the waters just off the shore of east Loch Fyne, at Letters, a few days ago. Basking sharks aree not aggressive. They are described as ‘filter feeders’ - like living sieves really. They cruise with their huge maws constantly open, filtering and processing the quantities of [...]
A seventy year-old angler was swept away on Saturday in Argyll’s Sound of Islay during the forty-eight hour Coastguard strike. The angler, who was not wearing a life jacket, was rescued by helicopter and taken to Lorne and the Isles Hospital in Oban but died later. Coastguards from Belfast co-ordinated the rescue. Normally Clyde Coastguard [...]
Solidarity won the day. Argyll’s unswerving support for Campbeltown-based bus company, West Coast Motors has seen Scottish Citylink renew its contract with the local firm to supply the Campbeltown to Glasgow and Oban to Glasgow routes. When the long running contract between the two expired in May, Citylink then offered West Coast Motors a new [...]
The Isle of Jura has three real successes to toast. The award of funding to the project to develop the Antlers building as a tearoom, interpretation and craft centre is one. The second is the successful launch of the fast passenger ferry from Tayvallich on the Kintyre peninsula over to Craighouse. THe third is the [...]
The 2008 Blas Festival programme offers over forty five events across the Scottish Highlands from September 5th to 13th, with music, dance and the Gaelic language at its heart. The Gaelic word ‘Blas’ means a taste or a savour - so that’s what the festival provides around culture, traditional music and the Gaelic language. [...]
Where can you find photographs relevant to the nature and development of your Argyll community? Track them down, get the details of what each images pictures, borrow them, scan them and email them to us. If it helps you, we’ll scan them for you and return them in good order.
Argyll CVS has an online Argyll [...]
Well, not actually Jack Russell but A Jack Russell. Highland Airways have had his booking from Coll to Oban and as yet do not know whether he’s flying solo or accompanied. But rest assured, he won’t be taking the controls. Not yet. He may have his eyes on a security job, though.
The new service got [...]
Diageo, the improbably named owner of classic malt distilleries, including some in Argyll like Oban, and Islay’s Lagavulin alongside the lowland Glenkinchie and Skye’s Talisker, has discovered that 2% of each barrel is lost each year through evaporation as the spirit matures in its porous oak barrels. Traditionally this percentage has been known as ‘the [...]
The parliamentary inquiry into the development of Scotland’s tourist industry has recommended that the universally derided visitscotland website and the principles behind it should be radically overhauled. One of Wendy Alexander’s initiatives when she was Enterprise Minister, the website is operated by eTourism Ltd based in LIvingstone under major owner, Austria’s Tiscover, whose ‘bookings’ software [...]
Robert Ferguson, Glasgow and West Buildings and Gardens Group Manager for the National Trust for Scotland has sent us the following response to the news item - below, under Community News - on concerns in Helensburgh about its major visitor attraction, Hill House. The house is also one of Argyll’s tourist destinations, supporting the widespread [...]
