For Argyll decided from the outset that, as an online news and information service and as a service for all of Argyll and the islands, its home was in the ether.
This has freed us up to hire village halls and…
Argyll and Bute Council wants to see its west coast port of Oban become an integrated transport hub. To achieve this, the Council plans to work with a number of key transport providers - such as Caledonian MacBrayne, Scottish Citylink and HITRANS.…
The online Condolence Register was set up by the Islay Weblog after the deaths in a road accident near Bridgend on 2nd December 2008 of Neil MacFadyen, Dougie MacTaggart and his ten year-old son, Jamie.
It now has eighty responses from all…
Crofters from across the Highlands and Islands, including those from Argyll have joined together to oppose the scrapping of the Bull Hire scheme by the Scottish Government, and have been expressing their fears for the future of cattle on Scotland’s…
In an exciting development on Islay, the example of a successful Swedish plant has inspired islanders to start exploring the feasibility of capturing methane as biofuel from farm and distillery wastes.
David Protherough, of Recycling Islay and Jura Group (REJIG - great…
There are now 74 messages from all over the world on the online Condolence Register set up b y the Islay Weblog for the victims of the dreadful road crash near Bridgend on the Isle of Islay last week - Dougie…
The Robb Report - an American-based style guide for billionaires - is featuring suggestions on luxury gifts. In the middle of ‘boys toys’ like £11 million for a personal Zeppelin airship, Tain-based malt whisky distillery, Glenmorangie has its own £4 million special…
As For Argyll has publicised, an online Condolence Register was thoughtfully set up by the Islay Weblog to allow friends and family members beyond the Isle of Islay to send messages of sympathy for the recent, sudden and tragic deaths…
A few days ago a student paid £2,200 for an uncorrupted bottle of whisky recovered from the sinking of the SS Politician off the Isle of Eriskay, made famous in Compton MacKenzie’s Whisky Galore.
Brokers now predict that 2009 will see…
The Islay Weblog, a site for a community has taken action for that community at a time of communal grief.
It has created an online Condolence Register where those who knew Dougald MacTaggart, his ten year-od son Jamie and his farming colleague…
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