For Argyll

As a final tribute from the Royal Navy to a ship that had sailed in its support in the Falklands War, the QE2 was escorted by HMS Manchester, a Type 42 frigate,when she sailed up the Clyde to Greenock yesterday…

Relax. These very large volcanoes were active between between fifty five and sixty million years ago. They were in Ardnamurchan, Mull, Rum and Skye. Last week a team of thirty three eminent international scientists, led by geologists from the universities…

In the next couple of weeks Allied Vehicles in Glasgow will see the first of their new generation of electrically-powered taxis roll off their production line. The company has just had a revolutionary battery pack for the vehicles delivered from…

Over a million Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the last half of the nineteenth and the first third third of the twentieth century, included many who went to Canada, then described as ‘The last, best west’. This description was…

Yesterday we tested the Loch Lomond seaplane service for ourselves, without declaring our identity and at our own expense. It is Scotland’s second favourite tourist attraction so finding out about it was worth doing.

There’s no visible organisation at the Oban…

[ January 15, 2009 to February 2, 2009. ]

Celtic Connections 2009 runs from 15th January - 1st February, in Glasgow.

[ August 11, 2008 to August 17, 2008. ]

The 2008 Festival will run from 11th - 17th August with events and concerts all over Glasgow.

A report commissioned by the Taxpayers Alliance has found that Scotland is overcharged by more than £1 billion annually in green taxes. That is the sum over and above what the Government in Westminster pay back to support schemes to…

With the British Airports Authority (BAA), owned by Spanish company Ferrovial, instructed by the Competition Commission to sell either Glasgow or Edinburgh airport, there was an immediate declaration of interest from the owners of Manchester Airport - Manchester Airport Group…

Simon Fraser University Pipe Band from Vancouver won this year’s World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green. It was their third win, this time leaving their rival and last year’s winner, Northern Ireland’s Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band in second place.…