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• Islay Slate Company: setting pace and style

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  Only a year old, steady on its feet and running away with enterprising initiatives, the Islay Slate Company is looking to floor the competition in an almost dizzying series of confident developments.Launching its website and online shop and preparing for an appearance at the 2010 Spring Trade Fair at Glasgow’s SECC, ...
  2 days ago

• Renewable energy: capacity and technology is there but…

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  … where is the infrastructure - the investment in the infrastructure?Without this, the power of our offshore wind and tidal energy cannot be harnessed and distributed.We’re looking at the familiar post-Victorian UK inability to invest in the future. We’ve become habituated to being a nation of ...
  2 days ago

• Tall Ships Race to visit Port Ellen Islay in 2011

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  Port Ellen is chosen as Guest Harbour in the Tall Ships Race of 2011 organised by Sail Training International . I have been to several of these events and I can promise you that its an awsome sight to see these huge sailing boats arriving. The Cruise in Company leg of the world famous TallShips Race will leave ...
  3 days ago

• A Picture Says More than a Thousand Words

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  A couple of days ago I wrote about the award that the Argyll and Bute Council received for their maintenance on Argylls roads. I was very surprised to say the least, after all I know the condition of some of the roads in Argyll, Mull and Islay, although some improvements have been made since I last visited the area. ...
  4 days ago

• Band widths on BT upgrades to rural Argyll broadband services

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  What you see (elsewhere) is not what you get (in Argyll and from BT).This is about the right description for the recently trumpeted broadband upgrades which BT has been commissioned by the Scottish Government to provide for a range of rural areas across Scotland, including Argyll.Drilling down into the reality we have ...
  5 days ago

• Islay Online Christmas Gifts

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  The clock is ticking fast, the nights are getting longer, colder weather is on its way, and Christmas will be here in less than two weeks! Time to get your presents organised and perhaps visit a Christmas Fair or two. There is a Christmas fair at Islay High School on Saturday 12th December from 11am - 2 pm and a ...
  5 days ago

• Online Islay Slates

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  Neil Scott from the Harbour Inn sent me the following press release regarding the opening of their new website and online shop for the Islay Slate Company. Perhaps you remember that I wrote about them earlier this year when I had just seen the slates for real. The various slates products look really nice and could ...
  6 days ago

• Travelling Around Scotland and Islay

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  Since we have discussed the roads on Islay and Argyll yesterday I thought Id try and find a fitting follow up on yesterdays post, and I think I did. I found a Youtube video titled travelling around Scotland, and Islay by car, and you get so see a lot of roads, the good, the bad and the ugly! The video, created by a ...
  1 week ago

• Road Maintenance Award for Argyll & Bute Council

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  Sometimes Im reading stuff and wonder in what world Im living in. Im not a person who complains a lot and Im neither a very sceptic person, but I had to shake my head in disbelief a couple of times when I read a press release which happily announced that the Argyll and Bute council had won an award for road ...
  1 week ago

• Beautiful 2010 Whisky Calendar

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  Already a while back I received a press release and it was patiently waiting in my mailbox for the right time to come. The right time because its about a calendar for 2010, a very special one, made by two guys from Finland who visited Scotland and spent time on Islay as well. The calendar shows some extraordinary ...
  1 week ago

• Best possible outcome for Colonsay’s GP post

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  No one could have designed a better solution to the job vacancy for a GP on Argyll’s remote Atlantic Isle of Colonsay.The island may be - it is - idyllic but such jobs are not easy to fill. Not everyone wants to live such a known life in such a small community of around 110 [...]
  1 week ago

• Busy Times for Islays Lifeboat Crew

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  The Islay lifeboat crew’s dedication to lifesaving continues unabated and over the past seven months they have responded to ten rescue calls. At the end of March, the lifeboat went to the aid of the Jura ferry which was stuck on the Feolin slipway and unable to manoeuvre owing to strong to gale force northerly ...
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• Christmas Charity Run in Port Ellen

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  In June I wrote about the Port Ellen JogScotland group for the first time. Jim Lutomski from Port Ellen (image right) took the initiative for this Jogging Group and he sent me the following information and image about the upcoming 5K christmas charity run on Islay: Want to earn that Christmas pudding and do some ...
  1 week ago

• Port Charlotte Hotel New Website

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  Isabelle from the Port Charlotte Hotel sent me an email this afternoon to let me know that they have a new website. A good reason for me to share this information with the readers, as many of you will most likely have visited the hotel, either to wine in their excellent pub, dine in their even better restaurant or ...
  1 week ago

• Latest on Mid Argyll Swimming Pool

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  This update supplies new information and insights and covers a note on Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather’s meetings with Mid Argyll Board members and with members of Argyll and Bute Council; a reply to by Jamie McGrigor MSP from the Council’s CEO, Sally Loudon; the results of our own information gathering from the ...
  1 week ago

• C&E Roys Celtic House Bowmore Islay

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 128
  This is already the fifth post in the "Nostalgic Islay Guide" series from which the ads are kindly provided by Keith Faulks. I started off with mentioning this lovely guide which was followed by the brilliantly written foreword by Alastair Borthwick. The third post was about the Port Askaig Hotel and the last ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Islay ferry named

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  It’s official. Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) has announced the name for the first new ferry to be introduced to the Islay route in almost 40 years. It will be the Finlaggan - Fionn Lagan.The name is that of an historic site on Islay and is also the place - on Loch Finlaggan - where [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Wake-up call for the Scotch Whisky industry?

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  The 2010 Whisky Bible has named Kentucky’s Sazerac Rye whisky as the best in the world, bumping Argyll’s Ardbeg Islay malt - last year’s winner, into 2nd place and closely shadowed by 3rd placed Amrut Fusion, produced in Bangalore in India.This underlined the shock earlier this year when Whisky Magazine, widely ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mather gets no change out of Rice at the Bank

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP yesterday (30th November) met with Susan Rice, the Managing Director at the Bank of Scotland to discuss the Bank’s withdrawal of their Business manager from Islay.According to Mr Mather, also Enterprise, Energy and Tourism Minister, Ms Rice  ‘had read all the background material and had ...
  2 weeks ago

• McGrigor writes to demoted Rice on Bank of Scotland’s Islay debacle

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  Jamie McGrigor, who has been constantly active on the matter of the Bank of Scotland’s removal of its Business Manager from the Isle of Islay, has written to Susan Rice, Managing Director of the Bank.Ms Rice’s own portfolio as Managing Director of the Bank of Scotland component of HBOS has recently been ...
  2 weeks ago

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