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• MG Alba Chair thanks For Argyll readers for Gaelic media support

  
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  Alasdair Morrison, Chair of Gaelic media company, MG Alba has written to thank readers of For Argyll for their support for BBC Alba.We’re not daft enough to imagine we’re the only media service he’s written to - but it is notably courteous to make contact with your listeners and viewers to recognise their ...
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• John MacDougall: a born Mulleach

  
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  This was a home birth worthy of the name. Not born on the Oban Lifeboat, as other Mull babies have been; not born on the air ambulance or in a mainland hospital - John MacDougall hit the airwaves with a lusty cry earlier this week - in his own place on bis own Isle of [...]
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• Greetings from inducted honorary Obanites

  
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  A group of volunteers from Oban and a group of refugees and asylum seekers from no fewer than ten different countries are exchanging greetings for 2010.This celebrates their late Autumn meeting in Oban this year when the visitors felt that Oban folk had really ‘opened their hearts to us’ in their kindness and ...
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• Morvern gets breakaway postcode from Oban

  
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  Should Argyll be the next to get a breakaway - from Paisley?The issue isn’t quite the same, of course.Morvern has got its breakaway post code  - moving from Oban’s PA34 to its own PA80 - because it’s part of a different landmass from Oban. Separated by water from Argyll’s mainland and its Isle of Mull, [...]
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• Did they really want to save Oban’s Hogmanay street party?

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

  
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  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 [...]
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• New for 2010: Festival of the Sea to celebrate Argyll

  
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  [ May 21, 2010 to May 31, 2010. ] With the threshold of the year not yet quite crossed and the sink of January approaching fast, its good for the spirits to have a new initiative announced now.Oban is to host a major new 10 day event, celebrating Argylls  dazzling marine environment and inviting everyone to come and ...
  6 days ago

• Oban & Islay Lifeboats in major rescue in Corryvreckan

  
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  Two RNLI lifeboats - from Oban and from Islay - and an SAR (Search & Rescue) helicopter launched to the assistance of a Coaster in the Sound of Jura last night (15th December).The Oban lifeboat was tasked at 21.37 hours to launch to assist an 80 metre coaster in difficulties in the Sound of Jura [...]
  1 week ago

• Join the Demo of the year for Mid Argyll Swimming Pool

  
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  This will be fun, fast and furious - and it matters. You can help it to succeed in its purpose of hammering home to Argyll & Bute Council that this facility is important to all of its community and it needs to be fairly supported.Gear upYou can also help to make it as much fun [...]
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• Oban joins candlelit vigil for Copenhagen

  
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  Sustainable Oban led a candlelit vigil at the North Pier yesterday evening - Saturday 12th December - as part of the simultaneous series of worldwide vigils organised to call for a genuine deal for Climate Change to be sealed at the Copenhagen summit.Local activists gathered on a freezing but starlit night in Oban to ...
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• Anger at Campbeltown to Glasgow Citylink bus service

  
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  (Updated: Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, has already taken action on this matter - see below.) We have had a complaint from an angry and distressed traveller - a full-fare paying passenger - on the Citylink 926 service between Campbeltown and Glasgow’s Buchanan Street Bus Terminal on Thursday 10th December.Travelling ...
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• ‘There’s a porpoise close behind me…’

  
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  … and it’s in trouble. The use of static nets is to blame. Now locally becoming an imperilled species, the Harbour porpoise can be seen regularly around Argyll waters and much of the Scottish coastline.They are the smallest member of the family which includes dolphins and whales, collectively known as Cetaceans. ...
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• Time for Argyll to come to the aid of the party - Oban Hogmanay, that is

  
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  The organisers of the 2009 Oban Hogmanay party have issued a strong call for people to buy their tickets to the gig within the next 2 days.In a recession, all businesses need to keep their cash flow in good order and the Hogmanay event organisers cannot continue their own contractual commitments to others over the ...
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• 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 ...
  2 weeks 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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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