A new website has just been launched for the QE2, as the grand old Clydebuilt lady docks in Dubai for a new life. She’ll have spanned a wide spectrum of experience from having a highly functional refit to enable her…
The issue of lamb mortality in crofting areas flown by the Sea Eagles re-introduced to Scotland has been a contentious one.
Now a meeting between Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), crofters in Skye and Gairloch, the Scottish Crofting Foundation, the Scottish Government and…
The beaver re-introduction trial at Knapdale in Argyll - seeing the native species back in the country after being hunted to extinction 400 years ago, has just been given a new grant of £1 miliion.
On 9th April 2007 a Pipe Apache took off in cloudy conditions from Connell Airfield, now Oban Airport. Twenty four hours later, a young local farmer found the wreckage of the plane on the slopes of Carn Dearg in Glen Scammadale…
The Scottish Government has announced a grant of £60,000 to support a major conference during 2009 Highland year of Homecoming. The Director of the initiative, Fiona Hampton, was also Director of Highland 2007, whose recently published evaluation report has just…
Argyll’s Airds Hotel at Port Appin, opposite the Isle of Lismore, has received a Gold EatScotland Award. This recognises it as one of the best places to eat in Scotland, putting it in the same frame as Edinburgh’s Restaurant mMartin Wishart…
From November onwards, Argyll and Bute Council buildings in Campbeltown, Lochgilphead, Crossapol, Bowmore, Tobermory, Dunoon and Rothesay will provide a secure video link to a passport interviewer.
This is an imaginative and helpful initiative, given the sprawling territory of Argyll and the islands…
Argyll band, Skerryvore, from the Isle of Tiree, brought Scottish traditional music to a wide audience, playing at the VisitScotland networking event at the recent World Travel Market in London. The event was aimed at highlighting 2009 Year of Homecoming.
Tobermory seems destined for celebrity. It has just seen the dwindling of the long and massive tourist boost with the popularity of the BBC children’s TV series, Balamory based on the brightly coloured port on the Isle of Mull. Now…
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