Thomas Ralston: The Screws

According to my dictionary there are around twenty meanings of the word ‘screw’ – but to a seaman Continue reading

Oban to be Argyll hub – and the last stop – on CAP Reform Roadshow

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), operates across members states of the European Union. Continue reading

A memorial, a hidden world and an initiative saying ‘Never again’.

Loch Awe memorial site 9

They will, as the plaque on their memorial cairn declares, always be ‘The Loch Awe Four’ – Continue reading

LEAF comes out unanimously against Luing Fixed Link

Clachan Sound looking north from Clachan Bridge, Isle of Seil on left. Copyright Richard Knights Creative Commons

Lorn Environmental Action Forum (LEAF) is a group of groups, whose members are a number Continue reading

House of Lochar to publish facsimile of The Book of Islay

The publishing house on the Isle of Colonsay, House of Lochar, Continue reading

Tommy Ralston and Kintyre’s lifeboats: it began with a camera

Severn Class lifeboat Copyright Scott Snowling GNU

Tommy Ralston, born in Campbeltown and now an honorary Fifer, left school in 1950 Continue reading