Food Champions Business Accreditation scheme to boost top Scottish produce

Argyll and Bute tourism businesses – from B&Bs to visitor attractions – are to be offered Continue reading

Oban to be Argyll hub – and the last stop – on CAP Reform Roadshow

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), operates across members states of the European Union. Continue reading

Scotland’s fish farming: concept to reality

Ardmaddy Degnish, copyright Richard Pierce

Fish farming in Scotland started in the late 1960s and soon came to be encouraged by central and local government Continue reading

2 Cabinet Secretaries on Mull: Russell and Lochhead on magical mystery tour

Richard Lochhead ad Micheal Russell at Ardhu Forest School in Mull

Education Secretary, Michael Russell, Argyll and  Bute’s MSP, recently invited his colleague, Continue reading

Mull sees signing of Scotland’s first woodland croft lease

The North West Mull community is now leading the way in Scotland Continue reading

Freeman challenge underlines management crisis at National Park

(UPDATED below, 15th August) Councillor George Freeman has embarked upon a substantial challenge Continue reading

Lochhead thanks volunteers for efforts with stranded whales – but there must be questions to ask

Richard Lochhead, whom we have known as Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Fisheries Continue reading