Without strong community action, Campbeltown Ring and Ride service will be...
We understand from authoritative sources that Argyll and Bute Council plans to discontinue the Campbeltown Ring and Ride service for the vulnerable before this Christmas.For this reason, it could not...
View ArticleCouncil scores massive own goal in manufactured political smear on Jura...
Councilor Robin Currie is now a lot more than the Islay councillor who sold his constituency short for personal and political gain by changing his vote on 25th October 2010 to betray an Islay school...
View ArticleRussell confirms formal complaint to Standards Commission about three local...
In relation to false claims made in a public press release issued in late November 2011 by Argyll and Bute Council, Michael Russell, Argyll and Bute’s MSP, has now made a formal complaint to the...
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 ArticleElection analysis insights
As the dust settles on the main body of the local authority election in Argyll and Bute – with the Dunoon ward voting tomorrow, some pictures are emerging.It is now possible to see where the school...
View ArticleFerries and fares on The Ileach’s Letters page
The latest edition of The Ileach, the fortnightly newspaper for Islay, has a very interesting collection of letters on issues around ferries and fares.It seems that in recent editions Alan Reid MP and...
View ArticleDiscretionary hearing on Ardfern housing application: insights and revelations
Today , 17th June, saw the hearing in Craignish Village Hall, of the application by the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland for a development project on its land at The Glebe, west of Craignish...
View ArticlePostscript to hearing on Ardfern planning application
The Discretionary Hearing by Argyll and Bute Council’s Planning Committee on the planning application from the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland for The Glebe in Ardfern, was held in Craignish...
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 ArticleFury at Minister’s deliberate exclusion of Argyll islands from Steering Group
Island councillors Robin Currie from Islay and Mary Jean Devon from Mull made a formal request to Argyll and Bute Council to represent the Argyll islands at the islands conference held last week at...
View ArticleDeparting Council Leader applauded by chamber and officers
As he cleared his desk this evening, the departing two-time Leader of Argyll and Bute Council, Roddy McCuish, will have had the compensation of an unusually comprehensive public demonstration of...
View ArticleShift in perspective on Council Tax freeze – but is it being managed?
Last Friday, 8th November, The Herald published an article headlined: ‘Rich minority benefits most from council tax’. This was followed by a strapline ‘Owners of largest homes save over £1500 a year’ –...
View ArticleUK Government signs up to Devolution Concordat with island councils – but not...
Today’s edition of the Press & Journal has an article on a Devolution Concordat signed up to yesterday, 29th November 2013, by Scottish Secretary, Alastair Carmichael MP, with the leaders of...
View ArticleWhy has Argyl and Bute Council sheltered pre-application negotiations on...
The long expected application to place a new fish farm in the bay off Shuna Cottage has just been lodged with Argyll & Bute Council under reference 14/00676/mff.At the present time the only...
View ArticleCastle Toward campaigners take note: Argyll & Bute Council is ‘working to...
The jaws of members and supporters of South Cowal Community Development Company’s will be on their knees by the end of this fantasy puff. They have just seen their ambitions to buy Castle Toward as...
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