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• Take afternoon tea with Sir Harry Lauder

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  [ December 6, 2009; 2:00 pm; ] And no, this is not a seance, its an entertainment, blending performed narrative with live music, taking place in the Burgh Hall in Dunoon on Sunday 6th December at 2.30pm - and the afternoon tea is real. You start with that.Harry Lauder (1870-1950), born into humble circumstances, was ...
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• Helensburgh Lifeboat on a shout today

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Helensburgh Lifeboat was on a shout this afternoon (27th November) at 14.16, in response to an incident at the Erskine Bridge.Information on the nature of the incident is being withheld.
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• Workboat from Maersk Raft in Loch Striven answers MayDay call

  
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  A few days ago the fishing boat Wanderer issued a Mayday call after getting into difficulties in Loch Striven, north of the raft of 6 Maersk-owned boxships in cold lay up there.Coastguard Richard Morgans, coordinating the rescue, contacted Captain David Johnstone in charge of the raft and asked for its workboat - to ...
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• Perspective on Ardyne Point development

  
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  Some hard-headed observers of Sir Robert McAlpine’s company have put forward an interesting interpretation of the company’s actions over its alleged Ardyne Point development.The company has recently been granted planning permission for a mixed use development of dubious viability at Ardyne Point in south ...
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• Asylums, churches, and the retreat of the institution…

  
  this fragile tent — Authority: 424
  I was in Lochgilphead today, with a series of meetings- including one at Argyll and Bute hospital. The building dates from 1862, and is one of the very few Victorian ‘lunatic asylums’ still in use today.Lovely old building it might be, but it is a total anachronism. Built to house hundreds of patients from all ...
  15 hours ago

• Mr Kipling Iced Fondant @ Tarbert, Argyll, Scotland

  
  140 character Twitter reviews on #cake — Authority: 130
  Local Hero - cake. Cafe shut so had to fall back on shop bought Mr Kipling fondant fancy at Tarbert harbour. By @sarahlay
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• Dragons and goddesses donate mugs for auction for Mary’s Meals

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Sounds like a fairy tale and maybe it is. A dragon, a domestic goddess, a money tree, a fantastical nanny and a storyteller - among others - have raided their kitchen cupboards to support the Dalmally charity Mary’s Meals this Christmas.Duncan Bannatyne, Nigella Lawson, Chris Tarrant, Emma Thompson and Alan ...
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• 5th December - murder mystery at Easdale’s Puffer Bar

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  [ December 5, 2009; 7:45 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Go for a pint at your peril. Easdale islands Puffer bar is running a murder mystery on Saturday 5th December. Entrance is by invitation only with few places left. Email the.puffer@btconnect.com to check the current position.The evening will start at 7.45pm sharp with a free ...
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• Dauntless to leave Clyde for Portsmouth

  
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  The latest Type 45 destroyer built at Govan and Scotstoun, Dauntless, is leaving shortly on a delivery voyage to Portsmouth, to arrive at her home port in early December.The Royal Navy says: ‘At the moment Royal Navy and BAe personnel are working more closely than ever in Scotstoun in order to achieve a smooth ...
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• Dick Walsh outlines challenges to 2010 budget allocation

  
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  Finance Secretary John Swinney has just announced the 2010 local government budget allocations and Argyll and Bute Council Leader, Councillor Dick Walsh, is fast off the blocks with a response.‘We always knew that this was going to be an extremely challenging budget, and that has been confirmed by the figures ...
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• Sustainable Design Awards: the architect on St Moluag’s

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Not much more than 24 hours to go to the close of the public online vote in the Argyll Sustainable Design Awards 2009.In the run up to the end of the contest for the awards we are featuring each of the four architects who designed one of the finalists in what has proved a very [...]
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• £1.25 billion to include new primary school building for Dunoon, Kirn and St Mun’s

  
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  The Scottish Government has just announced a new school building programme for Scotland which includes developemnts for Argyll and Bute.A plan for 14 new secondary schools was announced in September - which will see over 12,000 pupils in modern classrooms and every local authority in Scotland benefiting in the first ...
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• National Park to reintroduce passenger ferry on Loch Lomond

  
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  The love affair with the car that put paid to the century-old passenger ferry service on Loch Lomond that stopped about 30 years ago is now, of course, responding to environmental concerns.This has inspired the management at Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park to reintroduce such a service on the loch.The ...
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• Council statement on its position on the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  For Argyll has received a statement from Argyll & Bute Council on its position vis a vis the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool. We are publishing this in full with a commentary below it.The Council’s statement‘In order for the Council to provide additional funding to Mid Argyll Swimming Pool or any other outside body ...
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• Dave Thompson adds support to Islay in HBOS banking standoff

  
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  Highlands & Islands MSP, Dave Thompson, has added his voice to the campaign to get the Bank of Scotland to reverse its decision to withdraw its Business Manager from the Isle of Islay.Mr Thompson is always concerned when he hears of any degradation of services available to people and businesses within his ...
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• Council CEO’s top down modernisation plan backed by SNP Group

  
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  Argyll & Bute Council’s CEO, Sally Loudon, has proposed a Modernisation Plan which will see changes at the very top of the Council’s management structure.The current 4 Directors would come down to 3; the current 15 Heads of Service would come down to 12 and, although the purpose of the plan is to streamline ...
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• Dark ages beckon with Stage 2 of the Scottish Marine Bill

  
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  The Marine (Scotland) Bill is gaining pace, currently it is racing through Stage 2 Amendments as it is being scrutinised by the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Affairs and Environment Committee. The most up to date diary of events can be found here on the Scottish Parliament website.ForArgyll has already covered the ...
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• Sustainable Design Awards: the architect on Mull Theatre

  
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  Online public voting in the first Argyll Sustainable Design Awards 2009 closes this Friday - 27th November.In the run up to this, we are featuring each day a focus on the architect responsible for each of nthe four finalists in a category that has attracted a great deal of attention and [...]
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• Emergency closure of Campbeltown Grammar

  
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  Campbeltown Grammar School is closing at 1pm today, after a burst water main in the town left the school with no water supply.Buses have been arranged to transport the pupils home from 1pm.Any pupil who cannot go home early will be supervised by school staff in Campbeltown’s Victoria Hall until the end of the school ...
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• Mather & McGrigor engage with Bank: Islay not alone in service withdrawal

  
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  It has emerged that other areas on the west coast of Scotland - Skye and Lochaber are two - are having difficulties with the Bank of Scotland, not unlike Islay’s current experience.Gus Newman from Stormcats on Islay has published the full texts of letters from Jamie McGrigor to the Bank in the Comments posted below ...
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