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• Council confirms latest offer of extended tick for Mid Argyll Pool

  
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  Read all of the articles we’ve published on this page to get the context of this issue - whichis not going to go away.There is embedded community determination to bring the Council to an acceptance of it just responsibilities in financial support for the community-owned Mid Argyll Swimming Pool.The Council has just ...
  3 hours ago

• Council launches Loch Fyne Management Plan but neglects support for swimming to keep it safe

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Argyll & Bute Council has launched the Loch Fyne Management Plan, completed after the consultation process and now to be adopted in Planning Guidance. It will guide the use and development of the coastal zone of Loch Fyne over the next five years.Mapping initiativeIn an interesting and creative development, ...
  4 hours ago

• There’ll be a murrrder if the Council doesn’t save the Mid Argyll Pool

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Blythe Duff, DC Jackie Reid from the resonant Glasgow TV crime series, Taggart, has given her unqualified support to the organisers of the campaign to save the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool.And, as a city woman - a no-mean-city woman, she has both an interesting take on the situation and a profound puzzlement about it. And ...
  17 hours ago

• Rare good UK Government idea: on honouring military covenant

  
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  Was this Bob Ainsworth’s finest moment?  In a recent and poorly reported initiative, the much ridiculed (with reason) UK Defence Secretary announced the introduction of a series of measures to support military personnel in health, society and careers.NHS Trusts, Education Authorities and Local Authorities will be ...
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• Inveraray’s Eden Deli passes first birthday and…

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  … promises to make your Christmas a foodie one. A notably successful local business that has quickly become  - literally, part of the staple diet of the town of Inveraray, the Eden Deli, has now passed its first birthday.The business has also become a major outlet for Argyll’s specialist food producers, selling ...
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• Did they really want to save Oban’s Hogmanay street party?

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  The loss of Oban’s Hogmanay street party leaves a serious dent in a lot of things: the town - at the party-time of the yearthe local tourism industry - with no major draw to bring visitors to the west coast’s most beautiful waterside townArgyll’s credibility - how can we hope or pretend to be a [...]
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• Save Our Pool: the day Mid Argyll became a community

  
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  Very particularly this was the day Lochgilphead became a community. It moved march organiser Dave Payne, in his speech at the culmination of the rally on Front Green, to say he’d never known what ‘community’ was until today.It’s always hard for a larger town to develop a community spirit. The prospect of ...
  2 days ago

• 2009 For Argyll Awards: Nominations update

  
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  (Midnight 18th December) Below are the candidates nominated since the Awards process opened this morning for the 2009 For Argyll Awards. In some categories the competition is already hot and we can see some serious tussles developing.Most of these nominees have received several nominations already.When nominations ...
  3 days ago

• Ileach launches inspired mischief

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  The Isle of Islay was already annoyed with CMAL (Caledonian MacBrayne Assets Ltd), owner of the ships contracted to west coast ferry operator, CalMac. The company ran a competition to name the new ferry being built for the Islay route, offering a vote on a set choice of four names. None of these was the [...]
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• Cashback from crime for Argyll’s young folk

  
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  Youth and Community groups in Argyll are to benefit from Justice Minister, Kenny MacAskill’s Scotland-wide release of funds from the Cashback for Communities Youthlink scheme.Delighted to see funding coming to a wide spread of Argyll youth groups, Jim Mather, MSP for Argyll & Bute, says: ‘This is an admirable ...
  4 days ago

• Named: the winners of the ‘Name the Islay Ferry’ draw

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  CMAL has tracked down for us the two lucky winners of the competition to name the new Islay ferry - the felicitous choice was ‘Finlaggan’.The people concerned are happy for this to be made public - so stop grinding your teeth in envy at their trip to Poland for the launch of the ship and [...]
  4 days ago

• Call for Rothesay to engage in town centre regeneration

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Today’s corporate word is ‘consultation’. You can either get bored and cynical about it - for which you might have good reason - or you can get involved, take it over and make it work for you.This is the only way to go. If you are offered inclusion in any process - take it and [...]
  4 days ago

• Take Time for Rothesay

  
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  [ January 27, 2010; 11:00 am to 3:30 pm. ] Take Time is an opportunity to learn more about the conservation area and the Rothesay THI.The event will be held in Rothesay Pavilion on Wednesday 27th January from 11.00am to 3.30pm.Lorna Pearce, the THI Project Officer, is encouraging people to go along to the event also ...
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• National concern and Highland support for Mid Argyll Pool

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  With the Mid Argyll Pipe Band in attendance, dinghy, kayak and water sports regaliato the fore, the demonstration and march in support of the survival of the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool takes place tomorrow.The marchIt’s YOUR pool. Be there to be counted. If it’s wet, it’s appropriate. Don’t be put off. If it ...
  4 days ago

• New Council attempt to sell Castle Toward: a defining moment

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  A few years ago Argyll & Bute Council, against opposition from schools and other special interest groups across Argyll, was poised to sell its Outdoor Education Centre at Castle Toward in Cowal to a developer.The argument was that the fabric of the building was beyond economic retrieval for the Council and that a ...
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• A robindoodle from anelephantcant

  
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  Phil Burns from AnElephantCant - the innovative and successful Helensburgh children’s publishers and creators of waje (you must know what this is by now) - has just doodled this Robin as: ‘a Merry Xmas to both our readers. And their cat.’Brian Cairnduff, partner in the crime of creative subversion that is ...
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• BBC Alba’s new light and new footage on Man in Black

  
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  [ December 31, 2009; 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] By the time he died, Johnny Cash, one of the most powerful creative influences on the C&W music genre, had brought together people of more diverse creeds, politics, and persuasions than any other entertainer in history.His hits spanned six decades from the 1950s into the ...
  5 days ago

• Research in Kintyre shows Red Deer are getting smaller

  
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  The problem is hybridisation - interbreeding between Scotland’s native Red Deer and  the smaller Japanese Sika Deer brought into this country by 19th century Victorian adventurers and improvers.A study into the consequences of  cross-breeding between the species was carried out in the Kintyre peninsula by a group ...
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• Scottish Avalanche Information Service kicks in today

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Scotland’s Avalanche Information Service (SAIS), operating out of Glenmore Lodge near Aviemore in the Cairngorms, opened  today for the 209-2010 winter season.Providing situation reports and probability assessments,  it covers:Glencoe, in the county of ArgyllLochaber (Nevis range)Creag MeagaidhSouth ...
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• Rescue offers for Globespan clients stranded abroad

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  About 25% of those stranded abroad with the collapse of Globespan and its airline FlyGlobespan are covered and will be repatriated by the Civil Aviation Authority.But over 3,000 people are not. They will have to make their own arrangements.The budget airlines Easyjet and Ryanair are offering discount rescue packages ...
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