For every reason, this is a date for the diary. Leading Scottish artist, John Lowrie Morrison – JoLoMo – is being honoured Continue reading
Tag Archives: Arts & Culture
Russell Bruce: Judy Steel’s memoirs, ‘Tales from the Tap End’
The title of this book intrigues and is typical Judy Steel.
Judy Steel is many things, political activist, campaigner on social issues, lifelong supporter for a Scottish Parliament, playwright, poet, writer, restorer of a Border peel tower and much more besides.
Above all she is storyteller. These real life memories are skilfully interwoven to keep the reader interested as asides and interjections move the pace of the tales in a consummate and continuously intriguing construction. Continue reading
James Robb, as the cordite clears
In the midst of the debris of the ill-fated first SNP led administration at Argyll and Bute Council, Continue reading
No listening to concerns on Campbeltown methadone clinic plans as McGrigor calls for rethink on hospital bed reductions
[Update below] There was a full house of 200 last night, 13th May, for a public meeting in Campbeltown, organised Continue reading
Major events in Inveraray and Dunoon today
[13th May - updated below on HMS Vandal] Inveraray and Dunoon both host today, 12th May, events with a connection to the British armed forces. Continue reading
Reports of SSE giving out false information on Campbeltown ‘reconnection’
We are being told by an angry resident of Campbeltown that SSE are repeatedly giving inaccurate information to the media Continue reading
Kintyre and Arran emergency 27th March
Decoding helicopters
[Updated below, 26th March] There are so many helicopters in the air over Argyll’s Kintyre peninsula and the Isle of Arran these days, Continue reading
Booker and Costa prizes not enough for publicity hound Mantel – hitting on Duchess of Cambridge
Author Hilary Mantel, the current icon of the middle class literati, Continue reading
‘Unanswerable’ now an understatement on Port Askaig ferry share case
As The Islay Fair Ferry Forum group drops a bombshell on opponents to a more equable share Continue reading
