Cove and Kilchreggan Free Film Festival, Rosneath
Actress Tilda Swinton’s recent all-but-free film festival in Nairn – where you could bring a tray of fairy cakes as your entrance fee – has drawn attention to the community value of films for their own...
View ArticleACHA to demolish hundreds of lock-up garages across Argyll
Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) inherited a lot of lock-up garages when it became the owner of the Council’s housing stock in 2006.Alastair MacGregor, ACHA’s Chief Executive now wants to...
View Article2009 Rosneath Highland Games
The 2009 Rosneath Highland Games are at Howie Park on 19th July.
View ArticleArgyll & Bute Council sees third consecutive unanimous acceptance of its...
Yes, Argyll and Bute Council’s unanimously approved budget has frozen Council Tax for the second year running. But we knew it would. Not to do so would have been financial madness, throwing away the...
View ArticleRosneath to see new self-sustaining community?
Portkil Estate is planning the construction of an imaginative new development at Fort Road on the end of the Rosneath peninsula. The proposal is in the early stages of conception but is thought to...
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Design Awards Voting: Large Scale Residential finalists
Today (we’re bringing details on the finalists in the Large Scale Residential category of the Sustainable Design Forum’s 2009 Awards.Large scale residential schemes have a tough set of demands to meet...
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Results: Sustainable Design Awards 2009
The wraps have been taken off the decisions of the Panel of Judges for Argyll’s Sustainable Design Forum’s inaugural 2009 Awards. At the same time, we are announcing the winners of each category...
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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’...
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