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Argyll Sustainable Design Awards 2009 event
Oban’s Corran Halls yesterday (12th February) saw a presentation and get together of all of those involved in the inaugural Sustainable Design Awards 2009 promoted by the Argyll and Bute Sustainable...
View ArticleAlan Reid calls for free ferry fares for concessionary cardholders
Argyll’s MP, Alan Reid, has written to Stewart Stevenson, Scottish Transport Minister and called for the Scottish Government to give the Strathclyde Concessionary Travel Joint Committee enough money to...
View ArticleArgyll firm gets SPT contract for Renfrew Ferry replacement
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport has just announced (19th March 2010) that Silvers Marine, based on the Rosneath peninsula at the Gareloch, has been awarded the contract to run a small passenger...
View ArticleInspirational lead from Rosneath and Kilcreggan
Helensburgh Community Council had a lively meeting last night, dominated by the shambles of Argyll and Bute’s school closure proposals.New Depute Leader of the Council – and Education Spokesperson –...
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RNLI benefits from Rhu Marina’s 2011 Ne’er Day swim
The 2011 New Year Swim at Rhu Marina, at noon on 1st January, raised a record £1,183 for the local RNLI station. And ice did not have to be broken to let the braves immerse.Campaigners for two major...
View ArticleThe Kilcreggan conundrum: council between rock and hard place on school closures
Big issues often boil down to symbolic tests. UK election pundits used to take Basildon as the bellwether. In the USA, Iowa is a crucial swing state.In the mad juggernaut to self-mutilation that is...
View ArticleRural communities will lose libraries as well as schools
A site visitor has emailed in a challenging idea.While supporting the coverage given to Argyll and Bute Council’s disastrous attempt to force through the incapable school closure proposals, this asks...
View ArticleSign it: Rosneath Facebook petition against UK plan to privatise Coulport WMDs
A ‘No to UK privatising the management of Couport’s WMDs‘ Facebook campaign petition has already been begun – by a resident of the Rosneath peninsula in which Coulport is located -Everyone – regardless...
View ArticleSNP’s Coalition for Progress now has a majority – 19 councillors
The latest development is that SNP Leader, Councillor Roddy McCuish’s ‘coalition for progress’ now has a majority with a total of 19 councillors committed to it.Robert Graham Macintyre of Rosneath,...
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GoNorth Festival to screen Move short film
A creative addition to the spectacular music and dance fusion extravaganza that is Wild Biscuit’s MOVE has seen a short film produced of the show that rocked the Celtic Connections festival earlier...
View ArticleBig Lottery award for Rosneath Peninsula Highland Gathering
Rosneath Peninsula Highland Gathering – awarded £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All scheme – has shown initiative in the way it has used the money.The group, which runs the village’s...
View ArticleDecorated WREN honoured at RNAS Yeovilton for WWII Skipness rescue attempt
On the night of 18th November 1943, WREN [No: 57572] driver, Elizabeth Booth, was on patrol in her truck near Skipness.Booth was attached to the Royal Naval Air Station at Machrihanish in Kintyre and...
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It’s a Shore Thing: 2013 Sea Change Festival at Rosneath Peninsula West
Rosneath Peninsula West’s 2013 Sea Change Festival – Its a Shore Thing, takes place over the weekend of Friday 21st-Sunday 23rd of June.Expect mermaids, music, salsa, sea shanties, a ‘bikes and prams’...
View ArticleRosneath Peninsula Highland Gathering on Sunday 14th July
All systems are go and all fingers are crossed for the 2013 Rosneath Peninsula Highland Gathering, to be held at the Howie Park, tomorrow, Sunday 14th July.As usual events begin first thing in the...
View ArticleSecond time lucky? 2014 Creative Places nomination for Cove, Kilcreggan,...
For the second time running, the Argyll area containing the communities of Cove, Kilcreggan, Rosneath, Clynder and Garelochhead, have been nominated in Creative Scotland’s Creative Place Awards.Nine...
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Fund raising at Peninsula Choir concert at Cove and prayer vigil at St...
The image above is a poignant one, with yellow ribbons tied to the railings outside Cove Fire Station in the Rosneath peninsula. They are there for Jamie Taggart, the 41 year old retained firefighter...
View ArticleRosneath Peninsula loses to Peebles in 2014 Creative Places awards
The Creative Place Awards recognise and support the drive and imagination that shapes the cultural life of a community and enhances its social and economic well-being.The programme focuses on strategic...
View ArticleSo how did this peninsular community NOT win the Creative Places award?
Watch the video linked below – and resist the urge to go and live there. You’d be in a long queue.This is the video that the Rosneath community presented as part of its submission to the Creative...
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R & R Barnwell back at HMS Quebec for some 90th birthday R & R
This is the story of two lives – Ruth Farnish and Ron Barnwell – brought together here in Argyll during World War II, at HMS Quebec, one of Argyll’s main centres for the development of Combined...
View ArticleBaillie discovers SNP has no plan for thousands of workers at Faslane and...
Plan T for the Trident bases at Faslane and Coulport in Argyll seems as absent as Plan B for the country’s currency, according to local MSP, Jackie Bailli, who says that a vote for independence is a...
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