Argyll and Bute Council: the horsetrading begins

There is a meeting being arranged for tomorrow between a curious collection of councillors: Continue reading

Withdrawals move numbers against proposed new coalition

[Updated below 17.30] The proposed new coalition administration for Argyll and Bute claimed a majority of 25-11 Continue reading

Anger at Council’s latest spending folly

Argyll and Bute Council’s increasing reliance on using consultants at massive public expense Continue reading

Breslin pulls the pin on SNP group’s self-destruction – are there more resignations to come?

Dunoon Councillor Michael Breslin this morning pulled the pin on the potential implosion Continue reading

Social media has its limits: Angus Council Leader loses it in public following loss of Ewan Smith

What you are about to read below has been published, voluntarily, if too freely, by the Leader of Angus Council, Continue reading

Political divorce in Angus and revelations in East Dunbartonshire signal arrival of 2013 School Wars

We are hearing stories of moves afoot to close schools in Argyll and Bute – and we have already published Continue reading

So it is to be an ‘in or out’ EU referendum – with imponderables

If you can believe a word they say – and both Labour and the Tories now have form in reneging Continue reading

Conundrums – or not – in the death of Clyde Coastguard

The National Coastguard SOS campaign and Stuart McMillan, West Scotland MSP, Continue reading

Would an independent Scotland under the British monarchy have a Governor General?

Today’s (26th June) edition of The Independent, in its coverage of yesterday’s Continue reading

Western Ferries signs contract with Cammell Laird for new Dunoon-Gourock ferries

Gordon Ross, MD of Western Ferries, was in Birkenhead yesterday Continue reading