The Georgian/ Russian engagement over South Ossetia was also fought on a battlefield beyond our ken - in cyberspace. Websites on both sides were knocked out in concerted attacks, particularly against Georgia. These aggressive web campaigns have happened before, as they did during Russia’s disputes with Baltic States, Estonia and Lithuania in the last couple [...]
Simon Fraser University Pipe Band from Vancouver won this year’s World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green. It was their third win, this time leaving their rival and last year’s winner, Northern Ireland’s Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band in second place. In third place was the House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band, who [...]
The announcement yesterday that Vestas was to close its subsidiary company’s operations in wind turbine tower manufacture at Campbeltown was accompanied by news that it is to shift its investment to a development plant in the Isle of Wight. In our earlier piece on this matter we drew attention to the fact that Vestas’s presence [...]
There has long been concern at the scheduling of the Connect Festival at Inveraray for the weekend of 29th August, coinciding with the long established crowd-puller of the Cowal Gathering in Dunoon. It had been assumed that at least advantage would be mined from the parallel Argyll events by providing late-night and Sunday bus services [...]
The Danish owners of the Vestas wind turbine tower manufacturing business at Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre have just announced that they are to close the facility because it is not making a profit. The announcement comes at a time when Vestas has declared a 67% rise in orders in the last year. The [...]
Oban Airport had its official opening yesterday by Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Transport in the Scottish Government. The new airport, upgraded from a private flying strip at North Connel, north east of Oban, flies services to the islands of Tiree (also served from Glasgow) , Coll and Colonsay. Statements made by senior Argyll and [...]
Islanders on Colonsay are angered by what they see as the failure of the new air service from Oban to the island to deliver cheap flights to enable children studying in Oban to get back home to their families at weekends. Councillor Robin Currie, who represents the island, is quoted as saying that children on [...]
We have been drawing attention to the serious safety situation at Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield in Berkshire which is responsible for servicing nuclear warheads stored at Coulport on Argyll’s Rosneath peninsula. This ’servicing’ involves taking the warheads apart and re-assembling them. Burghfield has been shut down since last year by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate [...]
The Islay Directory has launched to collect in one place access to all the available websites relating to the islands of Islay, Jura, Gigha and Colonsay. This is an energetic and worthwhile initiative. Everything that creates more good quality information on Argyll and makes it easier for us and others to find out about ourselves [...]
The Lorn area in north Argyll has established a parallel LORN - a Local Origins Rural Network. The first and most obvious activity it will undertake is the provision of a Local Producers Market which will take place every first and third Thursday of each month - starting on 21st August. This will be held [...]
