Because of the today’s weather (9th November), the following cancellations and disruptions are affecting Argyll ferries.
Oban - Coll - Tiree: The ship was unable to land at either Coll or Tiree this afternoon and so it turned at 15.00 and…
The new Gaelic television channel, BBC Alba - based in the purpose-built Fas studio complex at the Gaelic College, Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye - will start satellite transmission today. Its first broadcasts will be documentaries. One of these will…
Alan Reid, Westminster MP for Argyll and Bute, has held meeting on Mull - at Craignure and Tobermory - over the island’s loss pf morning post delivery. The cause of this loss of service is said to be a European…
While waiting for the new 90 metre monohull ordered from Poland’s Remontowa shipyard for the Islay ferry route and due for delivery in the Spring of 2011, west coast ferry operator, Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac) has agreed to continue last winter’s…
The community at Tayvallich on Loch Sween has been awarded £196,570 by BIg Lottery Scotland’s Growing Community Assets fund. This is just over 70% of the agreed purchase price of £280,000. The impact on a small, remote community from the…
With the new ferry now onstream from Tayvallich on Loch Sween to Craighosue in Jura, this book may need to be updated. Released in June 2008, ;The Ferrymen’ is descrobed as ‘an art-house quality edition of ‘The ferrymen’, intentionally shot…
Secondary pupils from Argyll’s Isle of Coll have lost two school days over the twenty-four hour local authority workers’ strike on Wednesday. Glencruitten Hostel in Oban, which accommodates them during the week in term time, enabling them to attend Oban…
The growing success of the new fast passenger ferry from Craighouse on Jura to Tayvallich on Argyll’s Kintyre mainland at Loch Sween may just have another benefit to offer. The village shop at Tayvallich has been for sale with no…
Helping to connect Argyll with itself, this week a new fast passenger service began between Tayvallich on Loch Sween on the west side of the Kintyre peninsula and Craighouse on the Isle of Jura. The vessel is a Rigid Inflatable…
Seafari Adventures are to start a new high-speed service between their operating base of Ellenabeich on the mainland at Easdale and the Isle of Iona. They will use an 11m rigid inflatable boat (RIB) with an added passenger cabin seating…
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