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Still tossin’: Easdale Island’s 14th Annual World Stone Skimming Championships
Old tossers, young bucks, all ages and sizes, familiar and new international competitors and aficionados will all gather at Easdale Island on 27th September – if not before (the night before has become...
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Gary Mulvaney – no standard Tory
Gary Mulvaney – relaxed, interested, sits back in his chair and plays it as it comes. If it is possible to be open-minded and interested in change while not being troubled by uncertainties or...
View ArticleRhapsody on Rhapsody
We’ve had several warmly positive responses to the Argyll Rhapsody, part of Argyll’s Homecoming 2009 events and organised through Argyll & Bute’s Education Department.Because of the spontaneity of...
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Mission 2110 in progress in Loch Striven
Have you seen the fabulous Avatar? That imported, steel, high-tech universe, fuelled by violent imperial intent? The ‘outstation’, like a giant metal portacabin, plonked down and terrifyingly,...
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A Scott back at the South Pole
Captain Robert Falcon Scott of the Antarctic made the journey to the South Pole from the hut he and his expedition brought with them and built at Cape Evans on Ross Island in the Ross Sea, with sleds...
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2012 Olympic Flame: the Tarbet story
Tarbet’s story, of course, started way before 9th June, with Willie Young of Argyll and Bute Council, the genial and highly experienced organiser of all things sporting. (Below right, taking to...
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For the record: the 2012 Olympic Flame in Argyll
This was what it was all about on 9th June 2012 on the eastern perimeter of Argyll.The Olympic torch was flaming through Luss and on to Tarbet, both villages on the shores of Loch Lomond, in Scotland’s...
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The army: a self-reliant distanced world that needs our help
For Argyll was invited to a presentation and reception in Oban on the evening of 12th June by the Army Engagement Team. The event was hosted by Brigadier George Lowder MBE, Commander of 51 (Scottish)...
View ArticleMid Argyll Chamber of Commerce raises A83 issues with Transport Scotland...
Jane MacLeod, Secretary of Mid Argyll Chamber of Commerce, has written on behalf of the Chamber to Cathel MacAskill of Transport Scotland.The text of her letter, following For Argyll’s article on a...
View ArticleWind energy may be controversial but the logistics and the skills are mesmeric
For Argyll has been catching up with the actuality of shipping in the last set of turbine blades for the Allt Dearg Community Windfarm to Campbeltown on Sunday morning (6th August) – in case the A83...
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A83: Scotland Transerv bed in at Old Military Road as Task Force meets
As Cabinet Secretary Alex Neil’s Task Force on the landslide-prone A83 meets for the first time, Scotland Transerv, the action arm of Transport Scotland is today setting up shop at the entrance to the...
View ArticleDunoon Gourock Ferry Action Group’s Holyrood protest
All credit to the Dunoon-Gourock Ferry Action Group in its protest at Holyrood.Events like these are leavened and made memorable by wit.The campaigners against Argyll Ferries passenger boats – in...
View ArticleWarship IFR journal’s analysis of post -independence defence
The April edition of Warship IFR [International Fleet Review] carries an article – The perils of divorce and the custody battle - which is an informed insider’s view of naval defence forces following...
View ArticleEfficiency gains the future of lower price oil and gas economy
Yesterday we reported that America beat the forecasts in delivering an increased supply in the first quarter of 2015, despite reducing the number of operational drilling rigs to their lowest level for...
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