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• New Argyll free sheet

  
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  The Argyll & Bute Gazette has been dropping through letterboxes - free - ‘to homes across Oban, Helensburgh, Dunoon, Jura, Tiree, Coll, Mull, Islay, Gigha, Campbeltown, Rothesay, Tobermory, Lochgilphead, Port Ellen, Arrochar, Tarbert, Kilmelford, Appin, Dalmally and many more’.It’s an A2 folded to A3 4-pager ...
  6 hours ago

• BT persuaded to squeeze out a bit more bandwidth for some Argyll exchanges

  
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  The Scottish Government is paying BT to upgrade the following exchanges which are so choked they are effectively closed to new broadband subscribers.The areas in question are:CollColonsayGighaJuraKilchattan BayKilfinanPennyghaelWhitehouseAny improvement will be welcome in these places, particularly by new subscribers ...
  9 hours ago

• They’re doing their best: Council is Most Improved Performer on highways and winter maintenance

  
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  Proof that the appalling state of Argyll’s roads - officially  the worst in Scotland - is not the sole responsibility of Argyll and Bute Council has come as a Christmas present to the strapped-for-cash local authority.It has been named Most Improved Performer at the prestigious UK-wide Association for Public ...
  17 hours ago

• Seil Island Natural History Group

  
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  This lively and expert group whose membership is over 100 and growing, is hosting a talk in Seil Island Hall in Ellenabeich at 7.30pm tonight (8th December - see Events Calendar on the right) by two eminent lichenologists, Andy Acton and Anna Griffiths.The topic is ‘Lichens of Atlantic Woodlands’On Saturday 12th ...
  18 hours ago

• Seil Natural History Group: December meeting

  
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  [ December 8, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Seil Natural History Groups monthly meeting is on 8th December in Seil Island Hall at 7.30pm.Speakers are Andy Acton and Anna Griffiths opn: Lichens of Atlantic Woodlands.Both Andy and Anna are experienced Lichenologists and have recently produced two laminated sheets for ...
  18 hours ago

• Seil Natural History Group - Field Trip

  
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  [ December 12, 2009; 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. ] Seil Natural History Group is off on a Field Tripon Saturday 12th December - to the Toad of Lorn, the Dubh Loch and the Standing Stones.Existing and would-be members meet at 9.30am outside the Tigh an Truish Inn on the Seil side of the Bridge Over the Atlantic. The trip will ...
  19 hours ago

• Independence, government, ministers and constituencies

  
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  With the media almost crowing at what is seen as a significant decline in the current interest in Scottish independence, this seems a good time to do some clinical dissection.The Independence issueIt was always unrealistic to imagine that a canny country like Scotland could successfully be asked to vote for ...
  1 day ago

• Oban Lifeboat in Medevac from Mull

  
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  The Oban Lifeboat, Mora Edith Macdonald, launched this evening at 1905 to transfer a female patient from the Isle Of Mull to hospital in Oban.The Lifeboat reached Craignure Pier on Mull at 19.37 and, with the patient embarked, departed for Oban again at 19.47, arriving at 20.20.The patient was taken by ambulance to ...
  1 day ago

• 30 min Candlelit Vigil for Climate Change, Oban

  
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  [ December 12, 2009; 5:30 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Obans contribution to the worldwide Candlelit Vigil organised by avaaz.org and run locally by Sustainable Oban is on Saturday 12th December from 5.30pm - 6.00pm at the Clock Tower on Obans North Pier.As many as possible are asked to come, briging thier own can dle and a ...
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• Sustainable Oban surfs the wave for climate change in Glasgow

  
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  Sustainable Oban, with the irrepressible Margaret Powell-Joss, was with the 8,00o strong Wave march in Glasgow on Saturday.The Wave was intended to draw attention to the need for the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, meeting now, to agree substantial measures as an urgent necessity.For those who codnt be in ...
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• £250,000 marketing support for Argyll tourism businesses

  
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  Tourism Minister and Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, is delighted to see the total of £250,00 of support from VisitScotland’s Growth Fund now gained by tourism marketing projects in Argyll.Launched in 2008 the Growth Fund, financed in part by the EU,  has awarded £670,000 to tourism groups across Scotland, producing ...
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• Loch Awe tragedy produces commonsense conclusions

  
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  A review of rescue services and safety issues on Scotland’s huge freshwater estate was commissioned by the Scottish Government following the avoidable deaths of four pike fishermen near Kilchurn Castle on Argyll’s Loch Awe in March 20o9.The men who died were brothers, 47 year-old William and 42 year-old Steven ...
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• Best possible outcome for Colonsay’s GP post

  
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  No one could have designed a better solution to the job vacancy for a GP on Argyll’s remote Atlantic Isle of Colonsay.The island may be - it is - idyllic but such jobs are not easy to fill. Not everyone wants to live such a known life in such a small community of around 110 [...]
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• Mid Argyll Pool issue drives Councillor Philand to resign from Independent Group

  
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  Argyll now knows that principle is still an issue which can occasionally govern the actions of its elected Councillors.In a rare move, Mid Argyll Councillor, Dougie Philand, has resigned from the Alliance of Independent Councillors led by Council Leader, Dick Walsh.Councillor Philand is widely recognised as one of the ...
  2 days ago

• Now NTS loses millions in sale of Charlotte Square HQ

  
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  The troubled National Trust for Scotland (NTS), emerging from a turbulent regime under Chair, Shonaig MacPherson who is standing down - but with her CEO, Kate Mavor, inexplicably remaining in post - is mired in more controversy just as a Strategic Review of its operations begins.Against a background of protest from a ...
  2 days ago

• Argyll & Bute in Scottish Council comparisons

  
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  We missed this 6 months ago when The Times published a set of tables comparing the performances of Scottish local authorities across a wide range of categories and from figures supplied by the Councils themselves.Who says statistics are boring? The simple figures make it evident that there has been some sort of crisis ...
  2 days ago

• New environmental LEAF buds in Lorn

  
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  Lorn Environmental Action Forum  - a LEAF bursting into bloom in December, is clearly no deciduous growth.At a meeting in Oban on 3rd December a range of environmental groups and interested individuals decided to act collectively in making the voice of environmental concern heard.They have agreed to form a loose ...
  3 days ago

• Government refuse to include protection for Argyll’s surfing beaches in Marine Bill

  
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  Patrick Harvie of the Scottish Green party introduced an intelligent amendment to the Marine Bill at Holyrood.He suggested that with Machrihanish beach in Kintyre and the Ise of Tree - both in Argyll - fast becoming major fixtures in the surfing and windsurfing world, these areas should be offered advance protection ...
  3 days ago

• 40% of HMS Dauntless doesn’t work

  
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  The Clydebuilt part’s OK, though, but £400 million of the Type 45 destroyer, Dauntless’s overall cost of £1 billion is not earning its keep.This is the cost of the ship’s main armament, the Sea Viper missile system which the UK has developed in partnership with Italy and France. This system accounts for 40% of ...
  3 days ago

• Holyrood debates Dungavel detention of children of asylum seekers

  
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  This situation is so out-of-time it could be straight from a Charles Dickens novel, but yes, Scotland detains in Dungavel the children of those seeking asylum in this country.Dungavel is a former open prison now awesomely named an ‘immigation removal centre’. A single minute would produce a series of gothic ...
  4 days ago

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