The scoring for each of Argyll’s five towns competing for £10 million funding for waterfront development has been published. The Independent consultants’ scores have produced the following rank order of bid:
Rothesay’s bid was for £2.4 million and Campbeltown’s for £6.5…
There must be something in the water in Rothesay. A Rothesay woman recently won the reality show, The Hirer and now the dark haired bridesmaid in Mamma Mia, turns out to have been played by an actress from the Bute…
The challenge is ‘waterfront regeneration’. The prize pot is £10 million. The competitors are: Campbeltown, Dunoon, Helensburgh, Oban and Rothesay. The Outline Business Cases (OBCs) submitted by each town remain confidential until decisions are made.
While consultants are currently scoring the…
Victoria Gibbs, who went to school in Rothesay on Argyll’s Isle of Bute, beat seven other finalists in the TV reality show, The Hirer, to win the prize of a management job with tanning company Fake Bake. She will be…
Argyll and Bute Council and Lower Clyde Greenspace are working in partnership and with five communities throughout Argyll and Bute to carry out a study on open spaces in the areas. The communities are Rothesay, Dunoon, Lochgilphead/Ardrishaig, Oban and Campbeltown.
These…
This weekend’s - and after - storms made a mess of the paddlesteamer Waverley’s last cruise of 2008, which should have seen Bute passengers sail on Sunday from Rothesay to Tighnabruaich on the mainland side of the Kyles of Bute.
The…
Work is to start shortly on resolving the technical problems haunting the new passenger access gangway at Rothesay Pier since it came into service in December last year. Work will get under way on Monday 20thOctober, seeing the gangway taken…
Three councilors in Rothesay on Argyll’s Isle of Bute have three weeks to get funding to - would you believe it - buy back the town’s historic bell. In an act of thoughtless cost cutting, housebuilders Fyne Homes gave the bell…
The Government approved, publicly run onlien travel service, Traveline Scotland, puts together a Sunday morning itineraray that would only be possible with a twenty-five minute crossing from Rothesay to Wemyss Bay. This is ten minutes quicker than the reality. island…
One of Argyll’s five main towns - Campbeltown, Dunoon, Helensburgh, Oban and Rothesay - will eventually be awarded the major part of Argyll and Bute Council’s funding for town centre and waterfront regeneration. As part of the decision-making process, each…
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