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The other Rothesay
Argyll’s Rothesay on the Isle of Bute is, of course, ‘the other Rothesay’ if you’re living in the Rothesay in New Brunswick in Canada. But since we’re here in Argyll in Scotland and we’ve been...
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Plea for Government action as holiday family finds shot seal
Like many people visiting the west coast of Scotland, a family of four from Rossendale in Lancashire were driving along the shore of Loch Craignish close to Ardfern last week when they spotted a dead...
View ArticlePossible research development at Skykon’s Machrihanish
When Vestas decamped from its wind turbine tower plant at Machrihanish near Campbeltown in Kintyre, we argued that the long term solution for the area was not simply to replace the manufacturing...
View ArticleOnline poll on Argyll and Bute Council top feature of the day
43 HOURS TO GO. Vote while you still have the chance to say what you feel about Argyll and Bute Council’s performance and about who takes the decisions.At issue here is widespread concern by...
View ArticleBank of England prints another £75 billion empty money – and this does matter...
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee had been expected to print another £50 billion in a controversial additional attempt to use this instrument to get the UK economy moving.It has just...
View ArticleSwinney to challenge Chancellor’s economic strategy in a week long analysis
In the coming week, John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth, has set himself the job of demonstrating why Chancellor George Osborne’s austerity approach is...
View ArticleThe local pay rates debate
The issue of regional rather than national public sector pay rates – likely to be floated in some way in Chancellor George Osborne’s budget to be announced tomorrow (Wednesday 21st March 2012), is set...
View ArticleCampbeltown and all-comers invited to view the reopened Royal Hotel
Campbeltown has just seen the night sky rocket the news of the reopening of the town’s waterfront and signature Royal Hotel.With the official reopening and the fireworks over, tomorrow – Sunday 13th...
View ArticleNeverSeconds: time to let Martha Payne recover anonymity
One might say that young Martha Payne’s points-and-pics in the saga of her school dinners has led Argyll and Bute Council to an unexpectedly neat wheeze - how to stimulate economic growth in the...
View ArticleAsking the right question on Europe
The fact that Scotland’s First Minister is hardly hard wired to the truth is an important but separate question. And he has always been known as an artful dodger on the scamper.Whether or not Scotland...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council planning for resumption of war on rural schools
We understand on good authority that Argyll and Bute Council’s education department, led by Cleland Sneddon, is well into preparation for its strategy in a coming resumption of a war of attrition on...
View ArticleOpportunity knocks at UHI: Looking for new ideas, skilled staff or funding...
Highlands and Islands Enterprise has teamed up with a number of partners including the University of the Highlands and Islands to support local businesses in accessing research, funding and staff to...
View ArticlePolitical responses to the new Kintyre ferry pilot
Local SNP councillor, John Semple, has responded to the experience yesterday morning. 15th April, of seeing his persistent efforts to try to get an Ayrshire ferry link for Campbeltown come to fruition....
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland’s heart and head at odds
David Cameron, Chair of Community Land Scotland – the organisation which represents Scotland’s growing number of community land owners – has made a call for the Land Reform Review Group [established by...
View ArticleProposal for independent Scotland to share UK welfare system admin to 2020+
Yesterday’s one of the Scottish Government’s working groups reported its recommendations.On the basis of the fact that much but not all of the processing of UK welfare payments for Scotland is done in...
View ArticleInstitute of Fiscal Studies economist looks at fiscal context of independent...
The Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies [IFS], Carl Emmerson, presented a perspective - Scottish independence: the fiscal context – to an Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC]...
View ArticleFirst Minister shadow boxes in the ring
The SNP conference speeches were familiarly heavy on emotive rhetoric, none more so than the First Minister’s final address.One ought always to feel uncomfortable in the presence of a clear drive to...
View ArticleWhen is the dirty salmon farming industry going to be properly regulated?
Salmon farming is not just a dirty industry which does not routinely move its cages as it was supposed to do and which causes demonstrable benthic pollution. This pollution arises from:faecal...
View ArticleDemographic implications of Scottish independence for spending and taxation...
With the independence vote on the horizon, Scotland’s policymakers are today, 2nd May, challenged to face up to the challenges of a falling working age population while also tackling significant public...
View ArticleCouncil unable to sustain the Dunoon population summit – cancelled
Argyll and Bute Council has just cancelled the ‘Population Summit’ it was hosting this Friday, 9th May 2104, at the Queen’s Hall in Dunoon.This action has been taken because the headline speaker,...
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