Figures show that the numbers of officers in Strathclyde Police area have risen from 7,619 in the quarter ending March 2008 to 7,824 in the latest figures at end September 2008 –an increase of 205 officers.
This is of course a…
The first of the two questions For Argyll is asking relates to a necessary post-devolution tidyng up of responsibilities. The second relates to a continuing and unresolved deficiency - at Westminster and Holyrood, of how the needs of a constituency…
Until now, the Scottish Government has only had authority over Scottish waters to a 12 mile limit. Now, in an agreement between the UK Government and the various devolved administrations, announced to MSPs by Fisheries Minister, Richard Lochhead, each nation…
The U-turn (Wednesday 26th November): The whisky industry has rightly flexed its considerable muscle. Suddenly this was all an awful mistake, The Chancellor (and HMV) had ‘not intended’ to do anything their than keep the price of whisky at the same…
Jim Mather, Argyll & Bute MSP, has welcomed the announcement by his colleague Michael Russell, Minister for the Environment, that the Scottish Fishing industry is to benefit from a pot of £3million.This funding is aimed at the sustainable development of the industry,…
Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP and Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, has formally added his voice in support of the stance adopted by Fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead over the EU’s latest threat to Scotland’s decimated fishing industry. Mr Mather says: ‘I very…
VisitScotland is paying £1.25 million to buy its website fully into public ownership. The website is currently a public / private partnership between VisitScotland and Tiscover, Partnerships UK and Atos Origin.
Tourism Minister Jim Mather, Argyll’s constituency MSP, says that this…
As reported earlier, the MoD is disposing of the significnat and, in some circles, mythical and mysterious, RAf base at Machrihanish on the Mull of Kintyre near Campbeltown. There is considerable anxiety in Kintyre over how this may be handled…
Jim Mather, Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism and Argyll’s constituency MSP is on the cover of the Holyrood Magazine for October with a five-page feature profile by Mandy Rhodes inside.
What do we learn about him? Anyone who has met…
Jim Mather, MSP for Argyll, has issued the following statement on Transport Scotland’s plans and schedules for repair work on the A83. This is the main arterial road into Argyll and one of only three points of road access to…
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