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…
This weekend, starting on Friday 5th December, traffic on the Erskine Bridge will be disrupted because of painting trial and welding repairs. The Bridge will operate with one lane running in each direction.
Apart from this, traffic from Argyll running into and…
For technical reasons, the ferry from Fionnphort on Mull to the Isle of Iona will be running a restricted service until further notice.
Around 5.45 pm yesterday (2nd December 2008), a 38 year-old man, Dougie McTaggart, was driving his Skoda Felicia pick-up eastbound along the A847 when it collided with a westbound Scania Tipper being driven by a 52 year old man, approximately…
Earlier in 2008, there was a prolonged ‘Bus War’ between Stagecoach-owned Scottish Citylink and Argyll’s West Coast Motors, based in Campbeltown.
Citylink, which had contracted West Coast Motors as operators on its route between Glasgow and Campbeltown and Glasgow and Oban, attempted…
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…
Scottish west coast ferry operator, Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac) is recruiting for a range of jobs for the 2009 sumer season. The jobs include Senior Catering Ratings, Third Officers, Third Engineers, a Seaman 1A and a Seaman/Purser.
For Argyll, with other media, has consistently drawn attention to the installation of wooden barriers in lochside locations in Argyll by TranServ. This was done against all advice and against the experience of traumatic injuries when such fences were in…
Severe storms in August 2008 caused the collapse of the Dunglass Bridge at Southend on the Mull. The bridge is on the road to Macharioch and is crucial for peple who live out in that direction. For this reason, it…
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