Accounts Commission findings: Argyll and Bute Council at a crossroads
The Accounts Commission has now published its findings on the Controller of Audit’s Statutory Report on Argyll and Bute Council.The findings make serious reading for the council, for elected members...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: North Sea Investment
This is the fifth in a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry, the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent Scotland.We are...
View ArticlePolitics and council budgets – the Walsh stratagem
Council Leader Dick Walsh has, on the back of a massive majority of 27-9, secured the necessary support for his wish to take two full years to develop his financial strategy.In the meantime, Argyll...
View ArticleFor Argyll 2013 tributes: to the enablers
Some enablers are on the radar but are rarely headline news. Others are invisible, operating below the consciousness of the many. Without all of them, much of the fabric that holds the dispersed Argyll...
View ArticleClever documentary calendar for West Coast Motors for 2014
Campbeltown headquartered West Coast Motors, one of the private sector economic drivers of Argyll, has just published its 2014 calendar.Of course the photographs are stunning, in its A3 portrait format...
View ArticleWestminster Communities and Local Government Committee demands Local...
An authoritative call for reform of the Local Government Ombudsman came today, 15th January, from the House of Commons’ Communities and Local Government Committee.In an analysis that will find...
View ArticleSalmond – who else? – bangs the last nail in his Indy fantasy
Last night, in a discussion with the BBC’s James Naughtie before an audience in Glasgow, Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, personally knocked the last nail into his own already riddled...
View ArticleStagecoach shortlisted for four Scottish Transport Awards 2014
Transport group, Stagecoach, is in the running for top honours at the 2014 Scottish Transport Awards. The Perth-based company’s East Scotland business is shortlisted for four awards at the ceremony,...
View ArticleAnother first for Loch Fyne Oysters – a Wedding Fair
It has to be the trumpeted aphrodisiacal performacne of oysters that has prompted Loch Fyne Oysters to hold its first Wedding Fair – on Sunday 27th April, from 12 noon until 4pm.They say that over the...
View ArticleNew legislation on defective buildings offers Council route to save Inveraray...
The new Buildings [Recovery of Expenses] [Scotland] Bill has now passed Stage 3 of its passage through the Scottish Parliament and will become lawIt is designed to allow local councils to recover debts...
View ArticleWater shortage raises issues of responsibility; and concerns on viability of...
Water shortages affecting services at the Oban Marina on Kerrera earlier this week highlight the wider issue of local and national responsibilities.The Isle of Kerrera has an inadequate natural water...
View ArticleScottish naval architect and Napier University professor identify viable...
Alf Baird, Professor of Maritime Business at Napier University in Edinburgh, is well known as an informed and challenging voice on issues around the management of Scotland’s ferry operations.Stuart...
View ArticleChallenge to Scottish Government: Change the everyday racist discrimination...
We have passed laws to prevent football hooligans singing sectarian songs in the heat of football matches, usually between ‘the old firm’ of Celtic and Rangers. We have created public pressure in angry...
View ArticleNew appointment raises question of public funds choking drive in AITC
Argyll and the Isles Tourism Co-operative was given a guaranteed three years funding of £100,000 a year, half from Argyll and Bute Council and half from Highland and Islands Enterprise – starting in...
View ArticleArtmap Argyll looking for development consultant
Everyone knows the Red Dot Trail across mid Argyll each August, leading to the studios of resident artists in all forms of media open to all comers over a long weekend. This is the annual initiative of...
View ArticleTransport contracts – are Scottish Government’s hands tied or not?
There have been confusing messages from the Scottish Government in the last week or so on the matter of the letting of transport contracts.First there was an untendered £12 million contract awarded to...
View ArticleFormal complaint to ADP Chair from 3rd Sector Forum AGM – and aftermath
On 31st December 2014, following the 15th December 3rd Sector Forum AGM of local addiction recovery service providers across Argyll and Bute, the Forum’s Vice Chair delivered a formal complaint from...
View ArticleDorchester reveals facts of economic impact of CalMac’s west coast ferry...
Edinburgh’s Scottish Transport Conference is today, 28th April, hearing the results of an independent economic impact study by the Fraser of Allander Institute on the operation of CalMac’s west coast...
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CalMac off on major face to face consultations on lifeline ferry services
CalMac Ferries is embarking on a major tour of Scotland’s west coast communities to ask ferry users how the customer experience can be improved on their lifeline services.Over the next month, in an...
View ArticleRMT wrong-headed to threaten CalMac strike
The RMT Union has threatened strike action against CalMac’s Clyde and Hebridean ferry services. Members will refuse to work overtime on Wednesday 24th [today] and Thursday 25th June; and planing a full...
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