Fewer than 200 tickets left for 2014 Tiree Music Festival
As off 11.30pm last night [27th February] – there were just a few tickets left for the For Argyll music editor’s favourite small festival.Imagine – 1300 down and claimed and just 200 or much fewer to...
View ArticleFerry services disruption likely for 8th March
With adverse weather forecasts, many of CalMac’s services – in the Firth of Clyde waterway and on the west coast inshore and Atlantic routes – are tonight [7th March] on AMBER alert for tomorrow,...
View ArticleDavid MacBrayne CEO honoured by Institute of DIrectors Scotland
Martin Dorchester, CEO of David MacBrayne Limited, has been named Public Sector Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors Scotland.The awards, which attract nominees from an array of...
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Three Argyll islands in upcoming BBC ALBA series with Islay’s Heather Dewar
Eileanan Fraoich, a new eight part television series from the always fresh Gaelic television channel, BBC ALBA, starts airing on Tuesday 8th April from 8.30 – 9.00pm.Islay-born Heather Dewar has...
View Article50th anniversary of first west coast car ferry – from LOLOs to ROROs and DODOs
Fifty years ago today, 15th April 2014, one of the most important events in the history of ferry services to the west coast of Scotland took place.On 15th April in 1964, David MacBrayne Ltd introduced...
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THIRTEEN NEW JOBS – the measure of Stramash’s seven league boots
Striding between its home base at Oban in Argyll and its exiting new northern campus in Fort William, Stramash, the forward thinking outdoor adventure and education specialists, have now created 13 new...
View ArticleSpeculation on CalMac’s offshore bidding was ‘on the money’
Earlier in April, driven by curiosity at a throw-away remark by Douglas Fraser at the end of a recent BBC Business Scotland programme, that CalMac CEO, Martin Dorchester had told him at the end of an...
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Call for volunteers as HWDT launches vital new research expeditions on...
The United Kingdom’s only known resident population of killer whales is at risk of imminent extinction. Tobermory-based Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust [HWDT] has this week launched a new series of...
View ArticleArgyll’s depopulation and ageing population raised at Holyrood Question Time...
Figures released recently by the General Register of Scotland highlighted a situation where, in the 25 years from 2012 – 2037, the total population of Scotland is pr0jected to rise from 5.31 million to...
View ArticleAnother score for MICT and Ulva Ferry – new minibus for local community...
Mull is setting a lead for the rest of Argyll and the Isles in community self-determination in so many wayswith the strength and variety of the work done by Mull and Iona Community Trust [MICT]; and...
View ArticleDeputy First Minister to meet Dunoon Ferry Action Group this month
[13.00 Update below with information from Transport Scotland] At last night’s, 10th June, BIDS meeting in Dunoon, Council Leader Dick Walsh announced that the Deputy First Minister is holding a meeting...
View ArticleIndyref: Jim Murphy in Oban on Friday in 100 towns in 100 days challenge
Former Scottish Secretary and Shadow Defence Secretary, Glasgow’s Jim Murphy MP, is racing the pro-union message round Scotland, aiming to make 100 towns in 100 days.The Labour MP – for East...
View ArticleNot such a brave new world after all – DFM’s message to Dunoon-Gourock Ferry...
Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon met in Glasgow on Monday, 30th June 2014, with the Steering Group on the Gourock-Dunoon town-centres ferry service – a full six months late. The DFM had promised...
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West-east coast link in new workboat for go-ahead Inverlussa Marine
Inverlussa Marine Services, based at Loch Spelvie on the Island of Mull, has commissioned its new 27.50 metre General Purpose Workboat from Macduff Shipyards in Aberdeenshire.The link between two such...
View ArticleStaff shortages in new model coastguard service raise safety issues
The Coastguard SOS campaign group continues to raise concern about risks to sea safety and environmental protection resulting from substantial understaffing in the national coastguard service. This is...
View ArticleDoes CMAL have a future as a fleet owner?
[Updated below] CMAL is the Scottish Government owned company which holds and manages assets related to ferry services and maritime infrastructure – vessels used on the Clyde and Hebridean ferry...
View ArticleOban and Tobermory lifeboats figure in RNLI 2013 report on Scotland
In a year where the 47 RNLI lifeboat stations in Scotland rescued 1007 people in 996 shouts, seeing fewer calls for assistance from fishing boats and more from members of the public in trouble around...
View ArticleBOWfest 2014 headline acts to rock Argyll
Inveraray’s Best of the West Festival – BOWfest – a celebration and showcase of the best of the west coast of Scotland’s food, drink and music - has just announced a corking couple of headliners for...
View ArticleBlue Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship already benefiting young people in...
And there’s a competition to name this specific rally – on 5th and 6th July 2014. This Friday, 28th February, at Campbeltown Grammar School, starting at 2pm in the Assembly Hall, there’s a half day...
View ArticleFewer than 200 tickets left for 2014 Tiree Music Festival
As off 11.30pm last night [27th February] – there were just a few tickets left for the For Argyll music editor’s favourite small festival.Imagine – 1300 down and claimed and just 200 or much fewer to...
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