For Argyll

Imagine auditing the UK countryside. Where would you start? The sheer scale of the job is unimaginable - but it’s underway. The largest survey of its kind undertaken in Britain, or the first stage of it, the British Countryside Survey…

NHS Highland, the health authority responsible for Argyll and Bute, has reported that, between April and June 2008, over 95% of patients referred as urgent by their GP were treated within the target of 62 days. 85% of breast cancer patients were…

Argyll & Bute MSP and Scottish Government Minister, Jim Mather, has issued a statement supporting the approach to new Scottish Secretary, Jim Murphy, by campaigners seeking to clear the names of Jonathan Tapper and Rick Cook. The two men were…

In announcing fifteen new bills today for the forthcoming Holyrood legislation, First Minister Alex Salmond underlined the limitations in economic controls available under devolution to the Scottish Government. With Scotland’s economy currently more robust than the rest of the UK…

A document leaked to Scotland on Sunday has revealed that, from now on, the First Minister and other Ministers in the Scottish Government will give that Government’s view - if asked - on any issue which is controlled by the…

It has been confirmed that an EU official is to be appointed to work closely with the Scottish Government’s Transport Department and the two councils with an interest in the Dunoon-Gourock ferry: Argyll and Bute and Inverclyde. Any subsequent tender…

It would be hard to send a more defensive signal than Vestas’s announcement that it is prepared to meet local representatives - if they travel to the company HQ in Denmark. Key players in the race to retrieve something from…

Dick Walsh, Leader of Argyll and Bute Council, has just had discussions with Scottish Government Transport Minister, Stewart Stevenson, on a range of transport issues affecting Argyll. Among these was the position of the Dunoon-Gourock ferry. Stewart Stevenson had been…

The Danish owners of the Vestas wind turbine tower manufacturing business at Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre have just announced that they are to close the facility because it is not making a profit. The announcement comes at a…

Oban Airport had its official opening yesterday by Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Transport in the Scottish Government. The new airport, upgraded from a private flying strip at North Connel, north east of Oban, flies services to the islands of Tiree…