VisitScotland’s Surprising Island Trails raise more questions of competence
This is the country’s national tourist agency – funded national tourist agency, staffed national tourist agency, tied in to the Scottish Government tourist agency. It is not short of resources of all...
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400 Rosneath residents protest in person on Kilcreggan Pier on SPT ferry plans
Over 400 residents from the Rosneath Peninsula gathered at Kilcreggan Pier on the Clyde on Saturday 24th March to join a sit-in protest.They were there to show their concerns over the way Strathclyde...
View ArticleMore controversy as outgoing council Executive meets tomorrow on unexplained...
School campaigners are tonight concerned and angry that the outgoing Executive committee of Argyll and Bute Council is to vote tomorrow on a proposed Education Capital Budget.This has not had the...
View ArticleLocal government: party political or independent?
With the Council Elections on 3rd May, this is the hot topic and by no means a straightforward one.Many UK local auth0rities are governed by coalitions because in local elections local issues are in...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: the empire strikes back with Argyll facing worst of...
The old Empire, the ad hoc grouping of Independents, the Alliance of Independent Councillors, is, with its former coalition partners, the LibDems and the Conservatives, refusing to accept its defeat at...
View ArticleFinal report of Commission on Delivery of Rural Education due soon
The long awaited report of the Commission on the Delivery of Rural Education is due to be submitted in August this year – little more than six weeks to go at the most. It is to be published upon its...
View ArticleReassuring? Transcript of Shipping Minister’s appearance before Transport...
This is the transcript of the appearance on Monday 22nd October before the House of Commons Select Committee of first, Shipping Minister Stephen Hammond MP; and following him, the Chief Executive of...
View ArticleMcGrigor angered as Transport Minister fails to give completion date for A83...
Transport Minister, Keith Brown, has failed to say when the diversionary route to be used in the event of future closures of the A83 at the Rest & Be Thankful will be ready. But he has been able to...
View ArticleOsborne says deficit payback slower than expected as doubt falls on the...
UK Chancellor George Osborne told Andrew Marr on BBC One this morning that, while the government is making headway in paying down the country’s deficit – now down b y 25% - economic conditions will...
View ArticleWithdrawals move numbers against proposed new coalition
[Updated below 17.30] The proposed new coalition administration for Argyll and Bute claimed a majority of 25-11 in its launch announcement.We showed last night [10th May] that this was incorrect – and...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: now and next
SNP Councillor Roddy McCuish from Oban is Council Leader.The following councillors continue today, 29th May, to hold Lead and Depute Lead responsibilities, under constitutional arrangements which...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: where are we now?
The SNP proposal which was accepted on Thursday 27th June in preference to proposals in the motion from Argyll and Bute for Change, creates a position where:the council has no legal impediment to...
View ArticleMcGrigor’s efforts to get hard information on Scottish Government’s attitude...
On 20th September 2013, Highlands and Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor, lodged the following written Parliamentary Question at Holyrood:‘To ask the Scottish Government how much of the extra capital funding...
View ArticleCouncillors’ responses to Dr Christopher Mason’s circular on the Castle...
[New Update below: 5th November] Six of the 36 councillors at Argyll and Bute have now replied to Dr Christopher Mason’s letter on the Castle Toward affair.The affair is of substantial public interest...
View ArticleAudit Scotland ‘Action Plan’ for Argyll and Bute Council a flawed document
[Updated below with list of actions proposed.] Below is the Action Plan for Audit Scotland, laid out to guide progress towards the light at Argyll and Bute Council.While some of what it says is...
View ArticleArgyll & Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership: addicted to abuse
On the evidence below – For Argyll is calling for an urgent independent and independently appointed, external investigation of what appear to be serious problems at Argyll & Bute’s Alcohol and...
View ArticleAlarmingly revelatory Police Scotland statement on Inverness armed officer...
A police officer armed with a Glock handgun was seen and photographed on routine patrol in Inverness Rail Station two days ago, 14th April 2015.Since Police Scotland had given an assurance to the...
View ArticleScottish Government in the dock on Shetland Times’ revelations on 2012...
Every one is well aware that there was dirty work at the crossroads, as they say, on Transport Scotland’s 2012 award of the contract to provide ferry services to the Northern Isles.With four finalists...
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Ferries: Serious questions arising in Ministerial responses to McGrigor’s...
A few weeks ago Highlands and Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor got answers from Transport Minister Derek Mackay on a series of three written parliamentary questions he had tabled.These were on the subject...
View ArticleSNP now in Full Fiscal Anomaly and Hosie betrays full fiscal incomprehension
Full Fiscal Autonomy is now a the Full Fiscal Anomaly as it become increasingly impossible to make any sense of the multiple SNP positions on the acronym of the moment, FFA.The SNP manifesto for the...
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