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• Scottish Ferries Review - WHFP Editorial

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 131
  Last week someone from Islay sent me an article from the West Highland Free Press (WHFP) after this paper managed to see (parts of) a draft copy of the Ferries Review. Yesterday I received the editorial which was published in the 20 November issue of the West Highland Free Press. Although Islay is not mentioned as ...
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• Islay Ferry Name Poll Results

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 131
  Due to the adverse weather tonights ferry has been cancelled. All the more reason for a ferry related post with the results of the poll and two beautiful black and white ferry images! A week ago I started a poll to determine which name you, as readers of this blog, would prefer as name for the new Islay ferry that ...
  22 hours ago

• Return to Islay

  
  Bill Boyd - The Literacy Adviser — Authority: 112
  “I know only one thing about the technologies that await us in the future. We will find ways to tell stories with them.” - Jason Ohlar . On Friday I had the pleasure to return to the beautiful isle of Islay to lead  a staff development day on Literacy with the staff of Islay High School and its associated ...
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• Scotland’s Oyster - world’s biggest operational wave energy device starts generating

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Scotland is delivering on its settled target to be a leading European country in renewable energy generation.Marking this key development yesterday in a ceremony at Aquamarine Power’s site at Billia Croo near Stromness in Orkney, First Minister Alex Salmond pressed the button connecting the floating yellow unit to ...
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• No record but Dalmore Oculus exceeds bid expectations

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  A whisky created once only and never to be repeated - the Dalmore Oculus (so - not something from a Harry Potter story then) - went under the hammer at Bonhams in Edinburgh earlier this week for £23,000.It was predicted to go for £20,000 and although it surpassed this, it did not take the world [...]
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• Why Should you go to Islay?

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 131
  I can think of hundreds of reasons why you should make the journey and enjoy the fabulous Isle of Islay. I wont mention them here though, the reasons are scattered all over this blog and the Islay Info website so you can easily check for yourself. I want to show you a video tonight of someone called Paddyo11. He or ...
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• Alan Reid raises Bank responsibility to Islay at Westminster

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Yesterday (11th November) in Westminster, Alan Reid, Argyll & Bute’s MP, raised the issue of the Bank of Scotland’s treatment of Islay in the withdrawal from the island of its Business Manager.He asked in the House: ‘Can we have a debate on the responsibilities of banks in which the Government are the main ...
  2 days ago

• Political Support for Islay Businesses

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 131
  I picked up an interesting article this afternoon regarding the withdrawal of the Islay bank manager at the Bank of Scotland in Shore Street. Earlier the bank announced that the current bank manager would be replaced by a Edinburgh based call centre. Islay businesses were outraged and protested heavily against this ...
  3 days ago

• IslayBowers - button lust and more..much more

  
  Big Blue Bed — Authority: 113
  I love buttons and I love lace and I love vintage . So Islay Bowers etsy store is the perfect shop for me and I suspect you. The buttons above are vintage mother of pearl . They just sing out (in a Cole Porter type refrain) glamour. Also look at this pretty vintage 1930s lace. Honestly you need to go ...
  3 days ago

• Islay business banking crisis: updates from Mather and McGrigor

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP and Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, is in touch with the Bank on this urgent matter and sees value in the suggestions For Argyll has made in a previous article on alternative solutions for independent business banking and business development that Islay might explore.His view is ...
  3 days ago

• Nogne O ships over four beers

  
  Beernews.org — Authority: 476
  (Grimstad (Rygene), NORWAY) – Nogne O is punishing transatlantic shipping authorities this winter with all the beer the Norwegian brewery is sending to the States. In all seriousness, AB-InBev probably ships more beer over in a day than most, if not all, craft breweries do in a year. That is not to take anything ...
  3 days ago

• Of Islay Highland Dancers and a Gaelic Language Plan

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 131
  I came across a few interesting snippets in the latest Ileach newspaper that might interest the regular (welcome evening) visitor as well as the regular Calmac ferry passenger. I will start with the first snippet about the Baker sisters (Image right). At the Mod Highland Dancing competition the Baker sisters from ...
  4 days ago

• McGrigor follows up on North Argyll business signage row

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Jamie McGrigor is the political equivalent of a truffle hound. He has an unerring nose for issues that really matter to people - and he’s in there, tirelessly digging them out, giving them the oxygen of publicity.The Highlands and Islands MSP was quick off the mark on the current row over Argyll and Bute Council’s ...
  4 days ago

• Looking for Islay Models

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 131
  Im posting this message on behalf of Lorna McLean, a member of the Islay Forum. She made an appeal on the forum and to give her some more publicity we decided to post her question on the blog. I am coming to the island on the 21st of November for a few days to complete a photographic assignment for college. I stayed ...
  4 days ago

• Al Jazeera Video of Islay Tidal Energy Project

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 131
  I was going to post some Islay nostalgia tonight but decided to let it rest for another week. After the ferry names post, ferry ports report and the incredibly stupid decision made by the Bank of Scotland to withdraw their business consultant, its time to put Islay in a green spotlight. Why? Well it doesnt ...
  4 days ago

• Friends to watch over you

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 129
  Looking back at the Grey Dogs, from a distance of over 2km, it all seemed so calm and innocent.To the north the mountains of Mull dominated the distant horizon. The long necklace of islands that make up the Garvellachs and the Black Islands lay in the middle distance and little Guirasdeal and Lunga were in the ...
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• Bank of Scotland statement on withdrawal of Islay Business Manager

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  The following statement - from a spokesman for the Bank of Scotland - has been obtained only with persistence on our part and a mix of reluctance and lack of obvious interest on the part of the Bank.‘In a small number of locations, including Islay, we found that most of the contact between the bank [...]
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• Islay Bank Manager Replaced by Edinburgh Call Centre

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 131
  Islay businesses are upset to say the least since they have heard that the Bank of Scotland has decided to swap the local bank manager for a distant call center in Edinburgh. Specially in economic tougher times and also at a moment when more and more business start on Islay the bank is pulling out. On 8 November the ...
  5 days ago

• Ferry Service Review Recommends Just One Port For Each Island

  
  Islay Weblog - News Events Information — Authority: 131
  Will Port Askaig become Islays only Ferry Port? The information below, in the quote, was sent to me by someone from Islay. It was first published in the West Highland Free Press and shows that there are indeed plans to radically reduce the number of ports in the west of Scotland. Will this mean that Kennacraig ...
  6 days ago

• McGrigor supports For Argyll call for pro tem retention of Islay bank manager

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Jamie McGrigor, Argyll-based Highlands & Islands MSP, is sending the following request to the Bank as a follow up to the letter he sent last week on behalf of Islay businesses.‘Given the level of concern and disquiet that my constituents on Islay are expressing to me about this issue, I hope that HBOS might ...
  6 days ago

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