Urgent action needed in a tale of two copyrights: music and photography

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Loch Striven, Maersk and the media

Maersk raft in Loch Striven Copyright Rebecca Martin,

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Mary’s Meals appeal for Haiti’s worst slum whom no one helps: Cite Soleil

Haiti earthquake Bel Air Port au Prince. Copyright holder Marcello Casal Jr/ABr Creative Commons

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Visit to Mull’s sea eagles marks International Year of Biodiversity

Mull sea eagle chick after ringing

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Clydeport: the Loch Striven campaign goes on

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Tiree Wave Classic and Coll Challenge: fluky wind, naked wavesailors and an Irish winner

Coll Challenge 4

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Rhapsody in abundance in Argyll

Young musical talent from Argyll

This is what the Irish call a mixumgatherum of creative activities – all human arts are here. Rhapsody rules. Continue reading

Winner of ‘guess the location of the photograph’ – and the answer

We said there was a twist to this one. and there was.

It’s the Yacht Cub at Rothesay at New Brunswick in Canada – the other Rothesay. We were struck by how easily it could be here and wanted to find a way of seeing if you felt the same.

You did. We were offered: Kerrera, Tighnabruaich, Colonsay, Tiree, Strachur and some others too impossible to mention.

Unsurprisingly, no one got the right answer.

But Margaret Purdie from Lochgilphead came up witih a series of surprises. She rang up rather than email and just said: ‘Is it Port Bannatyne?’ Anyone who knows Bute knows that Port Bannatyne and Rothesay go cheek by jowl. When we said ‘Sorry, it’s not’, Margaret then demanded: ‘Well, is it Bute?’

Wherever her inspiration was coming from, she was at once the farthest away from and the closest to the answer – and she is the winner.

She will now tell us what she would like to see us feature or whose life story she would like to see us write and publish. We’ll let you know what she chooses – and we’re looking forward to finding out ourselves.

Rothesay NB Yacht Club

And below, to show you how close the Tighnabruaich answers also were, is a photograph by Phillippa Elliott of boats at their moorings there. Phillippa was also the photographer behind our recent photo-journalism on a contemporary lost township in Argyll – Polphail.

Tighnabruaich boats - (Phillippa Elliott - Copyright)

Both photographs are reproduced here with permission, Copyright to the Tighnabruiach photograph (just above) is owned by the photographer, Philippa Elliott.