Isle of Bute’s campaigners against the planning application for a sixteen-cage fish farm to be established off the north coast of the little Inchmarnock island on Bute’s west side are STIFFening their resolve for battle.
Argyll and Bute Council’s Planning Department has…
Argyll and Bute Council set up competitive bidding for funding from a £10 million prize pot for waterfront development.
There must be something in the water in Rothesay. A Rothesay woman recently won the reality show, The Hirer and now the dark haired bridesmaid in Mamma Mia, turns out to have been played by an actress from the Bute…
Beachwatch Bute’s island beach ranger, Sandra MacMillan, has removed 24 car tyres from the beach at Rhubodach on the Isle of Bute, where they had been dumped. The state of the tyres suggested that they had been cut from old…
Victoria Gibbs, who went to school in Rothesay on Argyll’s Isle of Bute, beat seven other finalists in the TV reality show, The Hirer, to win the prize of a management job with tanning company Fake Bake. She will be…
The University of the West of Scotland has launched a very interesting and scholarly book written by Dr Christopher Lowe on one of Argyll’s little known islands - Inchmarnock, lying off the west coast of the Isle of Bute.
The book…
Against the odds this year, Scotland won the annual international shinty-hurling match with Ireland at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny by 13-12. Two players from Argyll’s Isle of Bute were very much the stars of the match. Iain McDonald, in his…
This weekend’s - and after - storms made a mess of the paddlesteamer Waverley’s last cruise of 2008, which should have seen Bute passengers sail on Sunday from Rothesay to Tighnabruaich on the mainland side of the Kyles of Bute.
The…
Work is to start shortly on resolving the technical problems haunting the new passenger access gangway at Rothesay Pier since it came into service in December last year. Work will get under way on Monday 20thOctober, seeing the gangway taken…
Argyll’s Isle of Bute, along with the other Clyde isles of Arran and Greater and Little Cumbrae and the county of Moray are being added to the designated list of crofting counties. This follows the publication last week of the…
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