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29th December: update on voting patterns in ForArgyll Awards 2008

Monday, 29th December, 2008 | News | None

48 hours to go and today’s been the busiest of a manic series of days on the voting front. As we expected and warned at the outset, voting is often particularly heavy, requiring more than the number of simultaneous streams…

Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, will support and campaign for Pilgrim Way from Iona to St Andrews

Monday, 29th December, 2008 | News, Walking | None

Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, has sent For Argyll a note on his personal support for Roseanna Cunningham’s proposal for a Pilgrim Way walking route from Iona to St Andrews. We carried news on this…

If your ancestry is Scots, VisitScotland and the Forestry Commission want old family photographs

Monday, 29th December, 2008 | Genealogy, News | None

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…

e-borders brings more UK state surveillance - an unpaid fine could prevent you going on holiday - and has implications for independence

Monday, 29th December, 2008 | News | One

The UK Government plans to introduce an e-borders scheme, costing £1.2billion and linking government agencies, travel industry systems and transport hubs like ports, airports, major railway stations

Thousands of people booked to travel in and out of Scotland from Spring 2009 will be…

28th December: update on voting patterns in ForArgyll Awards 2008

Sunday, 28th December, 2008 | News | None

One vote today came in from someone who described his location as: ‘Came in on my boat. Now near Banff’. First votes from Northern Ireland arrived, along with votes from Norway, Austria and Thailand - and more from many of…

Tavish Scott says recession aggravates Argyll Islands’ disadvantage in ferry fares

Sunday, 28th December, 2008 | News, Transport | None

Shetland MSP and Leader of the Scottish Liberal democrats, Tavish Scott, has drawn attention to a new cost differential on living in and visiting the islands excluded from the Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) pilot scheme. The recession is driving an…

Roseanna Cunningham calls for Pilgrim Way from Argyll’s Iona to St Andrew’s

Sunday, 28th December, 2008 | Hebridean islands, News | None

This seems to be a day of links between Argyll and Perthshire. First we had the news of the first scientific identification of a single source for Perthshire’s River Tay - in the Allt Coire Laoigh burn at Ben Lui…

Europe’s first Dark Sky Park for Galloway - who’s batting for Argyll?

Sunday, 28th December, 2008 | News, Tourism | None

Great news for Scotland and for Galloway is that Galloway Forest Park is to see the develoment of Europe’s first Dark Sky Park. The 300 square-mile forest park can offer views of the heavens uncorrupted  by light pollution.

2009 is the…

27th December update: voting patterns in ForArgyll Awards 2008

Saturday, 27th December, 2008 | News | None

To give you a sense of the spread and impact of the ForArgyll Awards 2008, as well as coming from all over Argyll, Scotland and England, votes have arrived from: Alaska; America (east and west); Australia (south, west and east);…

Argyll stores among first hit as Woolworth’s closes down

Saturday, 27th December, 2008 | News | None

Dunoon today (27th December) was one of the first fleet of Woolworth’s stores to close as the life of the company comes to an end. Across the Clyde in Greenock, workers were also out of a job as their store…