Coffin crafts for every body
Today’s edition of The Herald nails down a story from a fair in Oban at the weekend.Argyll Hardwoods owners, John Ogden and Marion Ritchie, were loading a trailer to go to market with their more...
View ArticleOban journalist Moira Kerr awarded top Story of the Year
An Oban journalist has taken the award for Top Story of the Year at the Highlands and Islands Media Awards.Not only that, but she was also runner up in the Reporter of the Year category, winning a...
View ArticleFull marks to The Ileach on counting day
Islay’s fortnightly newspaper, The ileach, has always been enormous fun in its resourcefulness and its independent spirit.It has just demonstrated exactly the sort of initiative that can keep this sort...
View ArticleMisleading journalism from Dunoon Observer
Earlier today, the Dunoon Observer published online an article with a screaming headline: ‘DUNOON SHARED CAMPUS SHELVED’.The opening paragraph declares: ‘The Dunoon Observer understands that one of...
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Graham Murray and Beverley Smith discover a shared family link
An interesting discovery emerged by chance during the Luss Estates media introduction to the restituted and renamed Loch Lomond Arms Hotel on 31st May 2012.Graham Murray from the Helensburgh...
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Greg Chalmers and extreme photography
As we were all leaving the Loch Lomond Arms Hotel site today, Greg Chalmers, photographer for the Helensburgh Advertiser, decided he wanted a group photograph of the management team including...
View ArticleIleach raises issue of inadequate high season ferry capacity
The latest issue of The Ileach is running an article making the case for an additional sailing a day in each direction for Islay in high season.The piece, on Page 9, argues that this situation is...
View ArticleGood appointment to council press office
Argyll and Bute’s press office has been left bereft of reputation and senior staff. The remaining rump has been rudderless and incapable – most evidently so in the disastrous handling of the return to...
View ArticleHerald says Scottish Sea Farms at South Shian had trouble this year with USA...
Today’s Sunday Herald has an article by Environment Editor, Rob Edwards saying that earlier this year, in March 2012, Scottish Sea Farms’ salmon farm at South Shian in Loch Crearan was in breach of...
View ArticleHerald exclusive on UK Energy Minister looking to limit onshore wind
Today [30 October] The Herald is carrying an exclusive story saying that the UK Energy Minister is looking to limit the volume of onshore wind farms.John Hayes MP is speaking at the Renewables UK...
View ArticlePress regulation: First Minister opens another UK umbrella for an independent...
As time and debate carry Scotland inexorably towards the independence referendum in October 2014, the First Minister, Alex Salmond appears progressively to see ever more of a the point in the...
View ArticleScotsman sees EU letter indicating independent Scotland would have to apply...
National daily newspaper, The Scotsman is reporting that it has seen an EU letter on the matter of the position of an independent Scotland and the EU.The papers quotes the letter as saying: ‘If a...
View ArticleNominate Argyll and Bute’s best teachers and schools for 2013 Scottish...
This is, of course, the season for stars to shine and the search is on for Argyll and Bute’s brightest and best education stars.The 2013 Scottish Education Awards are aimed at top recognising teaching...
View ArticleArgyll journalist brings Oban’s indomitable sisters to national attention
Freelance journalist, Moira Kerr, has a piece in the Boxing Day edition of the Daily Mail, featuring Oban sisters, Betty Paxton and Jean Campbell.Jean is 105 and Betty no more than days away from her...
View ArticleScotland to hand renewable subsidy controls to Westminster, independent or not
The Scottish government has confirmed to The Herald that the repatriation from Scotland to London of powers to control the subsidies for renewable energy development will go ahead, whether Scotland...
View ArticleToday’s discovery: Loch Lomond now experiencing considerable tidal change
All these years it has been assumed that Loch Lomond – with the River Lomond running from the southern end of the loch in to the Clyde at Dumbarton, is not actually a tidal loch.But today’s edition of...
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Does the new ticketing arrangement for Gourock-Dunoon ferries make Argyll...
The Scottish Government has just issued the following press statement on a new ticketing agreement for the Gourock-Dunoon ferry services.The statementReproduced here verbatim:‘Gourock – Dunoon ferry...
View ArticleThe return of the undead
This is a week where the dead and the undead are colonising the headlines.This morning’s nationals 12th April] were full of sonorous warnings to Labour Leader, Ed Milliband from characters from the...
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A dram from Argyll and a village newsletter at Kala Patar
This is Mike Masters of the Furnace Stores at Kala Patar – 5545m – on Thursday 11th April, 200 metres above Everest Base Camp, looking into an unimaginable panorama of the giant peaks in the...
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ForArgyll.com continues to improve its reach
Our periodic analysis of our stats shows that ForArgyll.com has increased its reach year-on-year by 30.9% or 483K to 633K visits per annum.We use the industry standard analytics service from Google,...
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