For Argyll

This week Argyll and Bute Council officials have agreed a four week trial period in which the number of ’scholar’ flights will increase. These flights carry pupils from the islands of Coll and Colonsay to and from school in Oban..

At the moment,…

Argyll band, Skerryvore, from the Isle of Tiree, brought Scottish traditional music to a wide audience, playing at the VisitScotland networking event at the recent World Travel Market in London. The event was aimed at highlighting 2009 Year of Homecoming.

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Tiree been given its first ever new ambulance by the Scottish Ambulance Service and it’s designed particularly for use in remote places. So its a four-wheel drive able to get into difficult locations. This means it has to be on…

Yes it is the Alastair Campbell you thought it wouldn’t be. Tony Blair’s master of the dark arts of public relations by whatever means, now back on the Downing Street team in its crisis-ridden state, is the son of a…

Helen Thompson talking to her family after her win - Argyll’s new British Pro Women’s Kitesurfing Champion 2008 - as of today.

Argyll’s Isle of Tiree is just recovering from last week’s Tiree Wave Classic windsurfing week (with Paolo Nutini doing…

Final results from the Tiree Wave Classic - the results of the Pros double eliminations were published in our last article. Here are the top four places in each of the remaining sections (there were only three entrants in the…

For a second night running - this time at The Lodge on Gott Bay - the Tiree Wave Classic had the unexpected bonus of a spontaneous gig from Paolo Nutini who’s on the island just now. (The reason is that…

The end of a week where wind has been critical to Tiree’s sports tourism - the Tiree Wave Classic international windsurfing event - is a good time to announce funding for a project to harvest even more from the wind…

The first bouts of action were with the Pros - see last night’s item (headlined with the surprise Paolo Nutini gig) for the elimination Leader Board and the series of one-to-ones to be sailed today.

John Skye has just (18.00) won…

Today’s action on Tiree ended up with a major surprise of the best possible kind. Paolo Nutini happened to be on the island and offered to do a few numbers at An Talla during Campbeltown’s Breaks Surf Shop’s party.

Results and…