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MoD, Argyll, redundant submarines and nuclear waste disposal
Much of the Scottish Media has spent the last two days headlining the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) intention to dump nuclear waste from redundant nuclear submarines in up to 5 locations in Scotland.Our...
View ArticleNominate Argyll schools for Scottish Education Awards
The 2010 Scottish Education Awards have just been launched by Education Minister, Michael Russell. They are designed to recognise and celebrate success and excellence in education.Look around you, at...
View ArticleWeather conditions bring dramatic Medevac for Oban Lifeboat
Oban’s RNLI Lifeboat, the Mora Edith Macdonald, launched yesterday (25th January) at 17.25, to assist in the evacuation of four patients from the Isle of Mull.The CalMac ferry had made no fewer than...
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Cockleshell Heroes opening ceremony at Dunoon’s Castle House Museum
The opening ceremony for the Cockleshell Heroes exhibition brings Operation Frankton to the heart of Dunoon’s Castle House Museum.Considered the most daring of all the operations carried out by the...
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New Western Ferries boat takes to the water at Cammel Laird
The Ferry at the end of the slip waiting for high water is the first of the two new Western Ferries boats, Sound of Soay.At high water this morning, 22 July 2013, she was floated off and then towed by...
View ArticleFor Argyll’s 2013 tributes – to the economic drivers
The Argyll economy could best be described as inert, with low levels of entrepreneurship, modest ambition, a high level of public sector employment and substantial service costs to be met.This makes...
View ArticleHeart of Argyll Tourism Alliance’s superb showcase for Argyll on You Tube
As part of the Year of Natural Scotland 2013, the Heart of Argyll Tourism Alliance decided to take its heARTofARGYll initiative – a collaboration with Artmap Argyll – a step further by making a short...
View ArticleStagecoachSmartcard scheme launched in west of Scotland
Transport Minister, Keith Brown, has welcomed the news that Stagecoach bus passengers in Scotland are to benefit from a new smartcard ticketing scheme which has been launched in the west of Scotland...
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New Bute-built landing craft for Scottish Salmon Company – and a name tied to...
One of the criticisms levelled, with good reason, at the salmon farming industry in Scottish – most of which is externally owned with the profits exported – is that almost all of the support vessels...
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SAMS launches Laurence Mee Centre for Society and the Sea
On 20th November 2014, the Scottish Association for Marine Science [SAMS] at Dunstaffnage near Oban, launched a new research centre to improve understanding of how society interacts with the marine...
View ArticleMcGrigor critical of plans to legislate on more land reform
In what is fast becoming the hottest issue of a politically driven government agenda in Scotland – a Robin Hoodist take on land reform - Jamie McGrigor MSP has expressed serious concern at the Scottish...
View ArticleThe biggest ever multination Exercise Joint Warrion attracts a couple of Bears
This was an inevitable move in the edgy game of chess currently in play between the EU/NATO and Russia.One side sets up the biggest ever joint armed forces military exercise – the biannual UK-led Joint...
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