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Owners of Loch Fyne Hotel expand into Nairn

Friday, 26th December, 2008 | Community News | None

Crerar Hotels, owner of the Loch Fyne Hotel in Inveraray,  have just bought the Golf View hotel at Nairn - on the south shores of the Moray Firth - from Prudential’s asset management wing, Prupim.

Edinburgh-based Crerar say that about £800,000 will…

ForArgyll Awards 2008 - Voting Stage Finalists

Thursday, 25th December, 2008 | News | None

These are the finalists. Online voting will open here tomorrow (25th Dec) at 9.00am and close at midnight on 31st January. Winners will be announced here at 2.00pm on 1st January 2009.

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More bad news for Argyll jobs - Lighthouse Caledonia in liquidity difficulties

Thursday, 18th December, 2008 | Business, Community News | None

Lighthouse Caledonia, the company now owning the seafood processing plant at Cairndow on Loch Fyne (formerly Pan Fish) and which has recently closed its plant outside Stornoway in the Western Isles, has admitted to pressing liquidity problems.

In a press release…

Angus Gray Stephens in UK national sailing squad

Friday, 5th December, 2008 | Community News, Sport | None

Thirteen year-old Angus Gray Stephens from Brenfield in Mid Argyll has been given a place in the UK national sailing squad in the Topper Dinghy class.

From now on and into the 2009 sailing season he will be off regularly to training…

Cowal’s Strachur gets the Bar Room Mountaineers

Monday, 1st December, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News | None

On Saturday night - 29th November 2008 - Strachur, in East Loch Fyne hosted a night of traditional music in the Memorial Hall, with Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers. The band works to put a modern edge on Scottish…

Ten - and no Councillors - attend Lochgilphead meeting on Loch Fyne Coastal Zone Management Plan

Thursday, 13th November, 2008 | Community News, Environment, Fishing, Local Government | None

Not a great night for democracy. The Public meeting held at Lochgilphead to discuss the draft Loch Fyne Coastal Zone Management Plan had an attendance of ten, three of whom were from a single village - Furnace - and none…

Argyll’s Loch Fyne protection extended in new Shellfish Waters Directive

Friday, 7th November, 2008 | Business, Environment, Fishing, News | None

The existing measures to protect water quality in Loch Fyne for the good pf the vital shellfish industry have been extended under the Scottish Government’s new Shellfish Waters Directive.

This identifies seven areas of Scottish coast now selected for these protective…

Scotland’s gypsy travellers recognised as distinct ethnic group

Sunday, 26th October, 2008 | History, News | None

Judge Nicol Hosie has ruled that Scotland’s gypsy travellers are a distinct ethnic group with rights as ethnic minorities protected by the 1976 Race Relations Act.

In coming to his decision he heard evidence from Dr Colin Clark from Strathclyde University,…

Strachur public meeting on Loch Fyne Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan

Thursday, 23rd October, 2008 | Events | None

[ November 13, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]

November 13, 2008
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

As part of the Council’s consultation period on its draft Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for Loch Fyne, there will be a public meeting in Strachur on 13th November, at 7.00pm in the Memorial Hall. The…

Lochgilphead public meeting on Loch Fyne Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan

Thursday, 23rd October, 2008 | Events | None

[ November 11, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]

November 11, 2008
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

As part of the Council’s consultation period on its draft Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for Loch Fyne, there will be a public meeting in Lochgilphead on 11th November, at 7.00pm in the Community Centre. The…