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• Gold Medal Pianist, Tom Poster, plays Mid Argyll and Campbeltown

  
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  Argyll welcomes one of the leading ‘new generation’ British pianists, Tom Poster from Oxford on Sunday evening (15th November) in Ardrishaig and on Tuesday evening (17th November) in Campbeltown.In 2007, Tom Poster (left) was winner of the First Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow - an ...
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• Furnace Inn iconic whisky tasting

  
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  [ November 20, 2009; 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm. ] You may well struggle to remember this night - but on 20th November at 8.30pm in the Furnace Inn (in Furnace, on Upper Loch Fyne) Loch Fyne Whiskies is hosting an iconic whisky tasting.Leading the experience are two of Whisky Magazines Whisky Ambassadors for 2010, each ...
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• Autumn free food and where to find it

  
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  Autumn is a season that happens more or less when it is expected, whilst others seem to drift from one into another, and you can hardly mark their beginnings. The first day of September can still be warm and summery, but by the end of the month colder nights and misty mornings are commonplace. There [...]
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• Seil Island Christmas Craft Fair

  
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  [ December 6, 2009; 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Seil Island Community Hall on 6th December from 11.00am to 4.00pm will see the Seil Island Christmas Craft Fair.Something of a draw all by themselves are the light lunches, cakes, coffee and tea - vital sustenance during a few hours of browsing the spectrum of products Seill ...
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• Fiddlefolk international concert at Strachur

  
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  [ November 15, 2009; 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] You get two great international trios for the price of one – musicians from Scotland, USA, Sweden and Denmark join forces for a great afternoon out.at FiddleFolk’s last international concert of the year at Strachur,Mairi Campbell (left) on fiddle & vocals has picked ...
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• Scottish Tax Payers ‘Pay-into’ Norwegian Owned Fish Farm Profits

  
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  Investigations into the shot seal incident, reported by a family of four holidaying on the west coast and covered by ForArgyll, has revealed some interesting facts. One of which is that every tax payer in Argyll, indeed Scotland, is actually helping to boost fish farm profits - that’s fish farms owned [...]
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• Gordon Brown remembered only himself at the Cenotaph

  
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  Last night’s and today’s national media are full of comment on Gordon Brown’s failure to bow after laying his wreath at the Cenotaph at yesterday’s Remembrance Day ceremony.We noticed it at once, have reviewed videos from several sources and there can be no doubt that he did not bow. The slight sideways duck ...
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• UK-wide success for Easdale Island in Green Streets £2m shareout

  
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  The community team from Easdale Island has seen off almost 100 other applicants from across the UK to make it to the final shortlist in the Scottish Gas Green Streets programme. The 14 shortlisted projects will each receive a share of a £2 million funding pot.The Easdale Island project involves the installation of a ...
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• £52k award for Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network – and a job

  
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  Well deserved support has come to the energetic Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN). It has been awarded a funding package worth £52,000 to help support its initiative in gathering data on species of sharks, skates and rays found in Scottish waters. Many of these species are now endangered. The funding ...
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• Mull’s PC Finlay Christine wins top RSPB award

  
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  A man who has played a signal role in the Mull Eagle Watch project, protecting the awesome white-tailed sea eagles established there at the Loch Frisa Eagle Hide is PC Finlay Christine.PC Christine, who has recently retired as Mull & Iona’s police officer, has been awarded one of the RSPB’s top awards - a ...
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• Another prestigious piping award for Stuart Liddell and a win for Willie MacCallum

  
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  Stuart Liddell, now the effective world champion solo piper after winning The Glenfiddich 2009 Solo Piping Championships last Saturday, is on a roll.Yesterday he won the Bratach Gorm - the blue banner, in the Open Piobaireachd competition organized by the Scottish Piping Society of London.Stuart’s winning the ...
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• Westminster move to force GM food crops into Scotland

  
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  Moves afoot at Westminster to strip the Scottish Government of its powers over labelling food and content are motivated by the intention to force more genetically modified (GM) food crops into being grown here.A million pound publicity campaign is being mounted to persuade the public that GM foods are safe to eat.In ...
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• Remembrance Day 2009

  
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  ‘Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? But who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?‘No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod [...]
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• Loch Ness area for bigger than ever hydro scheme

  
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  The Balmacaan Estate, north of Invermoriston on Loch Ness, is the proposed site for a massive hydro scheme not far from the current newest hydro power station at Glendoe above Fort Augustus.The new scheme, of a dam and reservoir, is to have the capacity to power 1.5 million homes, six times bigger than Glendoe.Are we ...
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• 2009 Lochgilphead Lantern Parade

  
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  These are first shots of tonight’s magical 2009 Lochgilphead Lantern Parade.The procession was led by the Mid Argyll Pipe Band and driven from the rear by the Salsa Band. The lanterns - as you will see from these photographs - and others we are working on just now and which will be added to this [...]
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• Oban Lifeboat on shout to diver on the Rondo

  
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  At 11.43 this morning (7th November) Clyde Coastguard paged Oban’s RNLI Lifeboat, Mora Edith Macdonald. requesting a launch for a diver in trouble.At 11.51 the lifeboat launched under the command of Coxswain Ronnie MacKillop to rendezvous with the dive boat Elizabeth G, whose divers had been diving the wreck of the ...
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• Government extends scheme to help people struggling to pay fuel bills

  
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  If you’re having problems paying to keep warm enough as winter sets in - or you know someone who is - read on. The Scottish Government has extended its £60 million Energy Assistance Package to cover homes energy-rated at Band E in addition to those in Bands F & G.What this means is that more [...]
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• Mull Rally navigates a special stage

  
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  The 2300 Club’s annual Tour of Mull Rally - which we annually insist sees F1 out of sight for sport, skills, risk, excitement and the pendulum of success - is weaving its way round a special stage just now.The event - which is a serious annual contributor to the local economy:doubles the population of the [...]
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• Fiddlers’ Rally for Oban Lifeboat, Lochgilphead High School TONIGHT

  
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  [ November 6, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] This is a case of have the time of your life and help save lives as the Mid Argyll group that annually raises money for the RNLI and the Oban Lifeboat nosts the stunning Fiddlers Rally.The time is 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start and the place is Lochgilphead High School.The ...
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• SAMS is partner in new £75m Marine Alliance for Science & Technology for Scotland

  
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  Today (5th November) saw the launch of a new body bringing together 8 Scottish Universities in research and training in marine sciences.The Marine Alliance for Science & Technology for Scotland has been established after the granting of an additional £17.4 million by the Scottish Funding Council, bringing the ...
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