Western Ferries to have two new boats in service by 2013 Cowal Games

WF Sound of Shuna

(3rd May Update below) Western Ferries has announced that it has appointed Birkenhead’s Cammell Laird shipbuilders as Continue reading

Three in a row for Kintyre Express – what next?

KE Fleet at Cushendall

On Friday the full Kintyre Express fleet of three 11 metre Redbay Stormforce fast passenger ferries Continue reading

81%-full Hillhead school closed on an educational benefit statement copied from Arbroath? Who needs a law?

fire engine Hillhead Wick 81%

(Updated) The decision from the Education Secretary to close Hillhead Primary school in Wick, demonstrates – yet again – that what is wrong Continue reading

Seabus campaigner raises serious questions on ClydeLink Ltd’s financial ability to build new ferry

Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT) announced on 20th January Continue reading

Arbroath school review’s Westway proposal: cost, safety, capacity, amenity

As an example for all those in Argyll and the rest of Scotland who are increasingly concerned at the competence and integrity with which local authorities have been conducting ‘school estate reviews’ – aka school closure programmes – it is worth looking at the thinking that has not been done over Angus Council’s current proposal [...]