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• Public health experts back minumum pricing as Diageo fights on and recruits new drinkers

  
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  This is a lesson on the dangers of taking things at face value. Read on.Delegates at the Conference of the Faculty of Public Health in Scotland have voted in favour of the Scottish Government’s plans for the minimum pricing of alcohol.The public health professionalsTheir Convener, Dr Emilia Crighton, told the BBC ...
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• GARL and Glasgow North East

  
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  There are indeed political lessons to be learned from the recent result of the Glasgow North East by-election for the constituency’s Westminster seat. These lessons are to be digested by politicians, the Scottish electorate and the SNP.The prior decision by the SNP Government to cancel the project to build a Glasgow ...
  21 hours ago

• Herald features divided Coll

  
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  This has been reported in Argyll much earlier but yesterday’s (13th November) Herald newspaper brought the matter to national attention.Headlined ‘Battle of islanders may Coll off £2.5 million project’, the article features the almost equal division on the island on whether to accept the £852,329 funding won ...
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• Politicians hit the trail in Mid Argyll

  
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  In the past two weeks, Mid Argyll has seen a couple of political trains pass through - evidence that the General Election need to be in our minds.First to arrive last weekend was Mike Mackenzie, the SNP candidate for the Argyll Bute Westminster seat, pictured below left, talking to a postal worker in Inveraray. Then ...
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• Marine & Coastal Access Act a black day for marine environment

  
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  ForArgyll has recently written about the marine bills working their way through the Parliaments of Westminster and Holyrood. The Marine and Coastal Access Bill is the English and Welsh version which was given Royal Assent yesterday (12th November). If you were to believe the government spin surrounding it you could be ...
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• Wave Knight abandons chivalry in Somali hijack incident

  
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  This is the Royal Navy’s 31,000 tonne tanker, RFA Wave Knight. She is almost 200 metres long with a beam of over 28 metres.She has a crew of up to 100 - 72 Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel with provision for another 26 Royal Navy personnel for helicopter and weapons systems operations.She has two 30 mm [...]
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• McGrigor gathers evidence and supports Argyll businesses in road sign threat

  
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  North Argyll businesses facing the removal of their road signs, following a rush of blood to the head on the part of Argyll and Bute Council, have found an ally in a Highlands and Islands MSP who is himself a native of the area.Dalmally’s Jamie McGrigor has given his full backing to the many Argyll [...]
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• Oban Lifeboat replaces NHS helicopter in bad weather Medevac

  
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  The NHS ‘Helimed’ helicopter was slated to carry out a medical evacuation from the Isle of Mull  but adverse weather conditions dictation that its mission had to be aborted.Oban Lifeboat was then tasked to carry out the medevac and aunched at 18.24 tonight (13th November) with paramedics aboard.The Lifeboat, Mora ...
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• Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network AGM, Loch Lomond

  
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  [ November 18, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN) is rounding off a highly successful year with its AGM at the SeaLife Aquarium at Loch Lomond at 7.00pm on Wednesday the 18th of November.Although the AGM is an open meeting, for access and security purposes, SSACN needs ...
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• Council success in £300,000 each for Bowmore and Dunoon town centres

  
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  Town centres in Islay’s Bowmore and Cowal’s Dunoon are to receive an equal share of £600,000 awarded today to Argyll and Bute Council from the second tranche of the Scottish Government’s £60 million Town Centre Regeneration Fund (TCRF). This measure was the concession won by the canny Scottish Conservative ...
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• Development Officer Wanted for Dynamic Rural Development Trust

  
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  Following their successful applications to Leader Argyll and the Cruach Mhor Windfarm Trust, the Colintraive and Glendaruel Development Trust (CGDT) is recruiting a Development Officer to work on a freelance basis for two years.The jobThe position, which is worth £24,000 plus expenses to the successful applicant, ...
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• Sustainable Design: architect’s response to Easdale Island brief

  
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  As we’ve reported, Eilean Eisdeal has just won £130,000 as a finalist in the Green Streets award scheme. Part of the Community Company’s development plan for the island is building a Visitor Lodge. This will support the island’s economy in a gentle, low key way. It will enhance the quality of experience open to ...
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• For Argyll is moving…

  
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  …in more ways than one. We’re moving up in traffic growth and we’re moving hosts. Traffic has grown to the extent that many site visitors have increasingly been experiencing difficulties in not getting in to the site and in being timed out.We’ve been aware of this as a growing problem and had evolved a plan ...
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• Loch Striven ship dump: rolling story

  
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  Update 18.00 12th November: Maersk Maryland and Maersk Maine are now both in port in Algeciras in the south of Spain. Both are showing Greenock as their next destination, with an ETA of midday on 16th November for Maine and 6.00pm on the same day for Maryland. This supports the information given by Stew in [...]
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• Electric racing cars to in-house TV: Council Awards recognise Argyll schools’ achievements

  
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  You only have to read the list of projects and achievements receiving the 2009 Argyll and Bute Education Awards to grasp the spectrum of initiatives in Argyll schools.Dunoon certainly ran a flag up the flagpole for its achievements, with Dunoon Grammar taking two awards and Dunoon Primary School taking one of the big ...
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• Doonreay to be ‘nuclear heritage site’ as cost of Westminster rush for new nuclear is tallied

  
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  Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) is overseeing the decommissioning of the former nuclear power station on Scotland’s northern shores on the Pentland Firth in Caithness.It has announced that, in 2010,  it will hold  a 3-month consultation on what should be left as its legacy. Try to keep a straight face.The ...
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• Islay Lifeboat service to benefit from Fife millionaire’s RNLI bequest

  
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  Hugh Brown, a 78 year-old retired banker who had spent most of his life abroad before settling in Kinghorn in Fife, died earlier this year, in February.Mr Brown was originally from PIttenweem in the Kingdom and his wife Molly, who had died earlier at the age of 76, was from Islay.The Browns were lifelong and [...]
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• Full weekend of events at Benderloch

  
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  [ November 13, 2009; 12:00 am; November 14, 2009; 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. November 15, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The weekend of 13th-15th November in Benderloch will see a wide range of events crammed into three days, hosted in the Victory Hall. Friday 13th is a Folk Music Session from 8.00pm until whenever, with a ...
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• FOR TODAY - note mistake in Lorn and Mid Argyll Transport Guides

  
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  Argyll & Bute Council has today issued (late) advice to counter a mistake in the Lorn and Mid Argyll Trasnport Guides that could cause people to rely on wrongly detailed transport services on one specific day only.The day in question is TODAY - Thursday 19th November.What has happened is that, because of an error ...
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• 19th November mistake in Lorn and Mid Argyll bus schedules

  
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  [ November 19, 2009; ] Argyll & Bute Council has today issued advice to counter a mistake in the Lorn and Mid Argyll Trasnport Guides that could cause people to rely on wrongly detailed transport services on one specific day only.The day in question is Thursday 19th November.What has happened is that, because of ...
  4 days ago

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