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• Largest Working Hydro-Electric Wave Energy Device in the World Launched

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 627
  The largest working hydro-electric wave energy device was launched by Queen’s University Belfast, Aquamarine Power Ltd. and the Scottish government recently, bringing the global wave energy industry one major move forward. The device is called Oyster . It is the only hydro-electric wave energy device producing ...
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• Majestic Line wins at Highlands & Islands Tourism Awards

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 486
  The Majestic Line, offering cruises from Dunoon and Oban, has taken the Best Visitor Attraction Award at the 2009 Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards ceremony, held at Drumossie Hotel in Inverness.The line was set up in 2004 when Andy Thoms and Ken Grant rescued a de-commissioned fishing trawler and rebuilt it into a ...
  3 days ago

• Oban-based rally driver in Top 10 in Intercontinental Rally Challenge

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 486
  … and the little dog laughed as John Swinscoe said he was ‘over the moon’ on getting a top ten finish on the Rally of Scotland on his first venture into rally team management with the Oban based Bonniwell Rally Team.John and his wife Paula are regulars competing on the Tour of Mull Rally with [...]
  6 days ago

• Scotland’s Oyster - world’s biggest operational wave energy device starts generating

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 486
  Scotland is delivering on its settled target to be a leading European country in renewable energy generation.Marking this key development yesterday in a ceremony at Aquamarine Power’s site at Billia Croo near Stromness in Orkney, First Minister Alex Salmond pressed the button connecting the floating yellow unit to ...
  1 week ago

• Civil Partnership – All aboard in early December?

  
  Maman Poulet — Authority: 465
  Catching up on Civil Partnership related news… Confirmed in a question to An Taoiseach on Tuesday by Eamon Gilmore, leader of the Labour Party. Note the dig by Dermot Ahern. Deputy Eamon Gilmore: Does the Taoiseach have an update on when the civil partnership Bill will be before the House? The ...
  1 week ago

• A tale of two speeches

  
  Welsh Ramblings — Authority: 421
  Che notes that excerpts from one of Rhodri Morgans last speeches deserve a wider audience than simply being in the pages of the Western Mail. The outgoing First Ministers comments about Wales increasingly internationalist image are more examples of why he will be fondly remembered, despite doing a number of things ...
  1 week ago

• Minature book of Robert Burns’ poetry to be launched into orbit

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 577
  By Oliver Farrimond A TINY book of Robert Burns’ poems is set to be blasted into SPACE. The miniature book will dock with the International Space Station next year after being carried into orbit by an American astronaut. A distant relative of Scotland’s Bard, Alan Archibald, donated the book to a space school ...
  2 weeks ago

• From the record - prepearing for Copenhagen Climate talks

  
  Leanne Wood AM/AC — Authority: 110
  Assembly Record of proceedings 3rd November 2009 Leanne Wood : Plaid Cymru supports the calls from the environment movement for wealthy industrialised countries to commit to a cut of at least 40 per cent in domestic emissions by 2020. This call is not just about getting the UK Government to agree to such a target, ...
  2 weeks ago

• A sign of things to come...

  
  Miss Wagstaff Presents — Authority: 115
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  2 weeks ago

• The friend or foe debate

  
  Miss Wagstaff Presents — Authority: 115
  The final Labour party debate between the three candidates hoping to succeed Rhodri Morgan as leader in Wales will take place in Cardiff later. The winner, announced in December, will also become Welsh First Minister. Health Minister Edwina Hart, Counsel General Carwyn Jones and and AM Huw Lewis will argue their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three leg race to replace a three legged duck

  
  Miss Wagstaff Presents — Authority: 115
  Perhaps there are simply three legs to any race , even if threes a crowd: Leg 1: Speculation surrounding who will put themselves forward for leadership. Leg 2: Hopefuls dropping out and rallying round their favourite. Leg 3: One contender entering contest to draw support from one camp in order for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dunoon hosts Highlands and Islands Convention today

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 486
  The Queen’s Hall in Dunoon is today hosting the Convention of the Highlands and Island. Among the issues under discussion is the Highlands and Islands economy, which, under the Scottish Government’s Economic Recovery Plan, is focused on supporting jobs and communities, strengthening education and skills and ...
  5 weeks ago

• Truth Revealed about Pakistani Pipe Band Visa Row: “Habitual Absconders”

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 611
  An international row over the refusal to grant visas to a Pakistani pipe band has ended with egg on the Government’s face after it emerged that a secret memo described the Third Worlders as “habitual absconders.” At the beginning of October, talks between Home Secretary Alan Johnson and the Pakistani president ...
  5 weeks ago

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