Lochgair takes to the beach to celebrate Easter
The Mid Argyll village of Lochgair on Loch Fyne is celebrating Easter by having a communal beach clean and BBQ on Saturday 21st April.The winter storms the country knew all about have left their mark...
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Major repairs programme enabled as Fyne Homes becomes Corporate Partner of...
In what is believed to be a UK first, Scotwest Credit Union has welcomed Argyll’s Fyne Homes Housing Association as a Corporate Member. The exciting development has been the result of changes in...
View ArticleStuart Owen
Stuart Owen, the successful and committed manager of Mid Argyll Community Pool in Lochgilphead, collapsed suddenly and later died on Saturday morning while – typically – contributing to the Lochgair...
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Caol Ruadh sculpture park opens to public today
The spectacular Scottish Sculpture Park, Caol Ruadh, opens to the public at 12 noon today, 11th May. On the north side of Colintraive on the Kyles of Bute, the outdoor gallery’s 2014 exhibition is...
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Oban South and the Isles by-election: Neil MacIntyre in profile
Neil MacIntyre has, in what must seem like a previous incarnation, worked for 20 years for Argyll and Bute Council. These days he works night shifts at Tesco. His wife works in the health sector. One...
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Oban South and the Isles: David Pollard in profile
‘I’ll be on the pier, wearing my rosette’, texted Dr David Pollard, the Mull-based Liberal Democrat candidate. ‘What? Not a rose between your teeth?’, we replied from aboard CalMac’s MV Isle of Mull,...
View ArticleLochgair Annual Plant Sale and Coffee Morning
Lochgair village is holding its annual Plant Sale and Coffee Morning at from 10.30am to 12.30pm on Saturday 24th May at Lochgair Church Hall.In a community of keen gardeners, the plants are always a...
View ArticleFinal Land Reform report substantial, challenging, provocative, not final
The Scottish Government’s Land Reform Review Committee has just published its final report.It had issued a shockingly slight interim report just under a year ago in early June 2013, which For Argyll...
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Islay’s Ardbeg to launch new limited edition whisky specifically for local...
‘The Kildalton Project’ will see Islay’s renowned Ardbeg distillery produce Ardbeg Kildalton, an exclusive limited edition whisky which will help to profile and raise funds for the project – to create...
View ArticleMcGrigor welcomes Scotch Whisky Action Fund support for Highlands & Islands...
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands Conservative MSP, has welcomed the news that two local initiatives fighting alcohol misuse in his region are to benefit from funding from the Scotch Whisky...
View ArticleChallenge to Scottish Government: Change the everyday racist discrimination...
We have passed laws to prevent football hooligans singing sectarian songs in the heat of football matches, usually between ‘the old firm’ of Celtic and Rangers. We have created public pressure in angry...
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Moving Minds at Auchindrain
On Friday 25th July, Auchindrain Township, south of Inveraray on the A83, launched an exhibition that runs until late September.Moving Minds aims to do just what it says – and it cannot fail to do...
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Tobermory Lifeboat Day: services raft race, helicopter exercise, boys toys...
The action packed Lifeboat Day, Sunday 17th August, coming up – is the biggest day in the year for Tobermory lifeboat station and its volunteer crew. From midday to 4pm the only problems will be making...
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Local funding sees 50 year old Lochaline Village Hall in spick fettle
Lochaline Village Hall was built 50 years ago on land gifted to the Community of Morvern by the local Ardtornish Estate. It serves the dispersed population – approximately 350 people in the 200 square...
View ArticleDalmally Grow Wild Community Orchard hosts Beechgrove Garden
This week, the Glenorchy & Innishail Community Orchard near Dalmally played host to the ever-popular BBC2 gardening programme, the Beechgrove Garden.When members of the Community Orchard team heard...
View Article2014 Clachan Smallholders’ Gathering
Nestling below Loup Hill, the site of the last battle fought in Kintyre – on 16th May 1689, as part of the first Jacobite Rising and a defeat by Government forces, the picturesque village of Clachan...
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Tobermory community consulted on marine port plans
Following the enviably go-ahead Tobermory Harbour Association’s development plans, around 50 local residents interested in Mull’s marine leisure and tourism facilities attended an information event...
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Exhibition on the human cost of WW1 to Hebrideans
Artefacts from the renowned In Flanders Field museum at Ypres in Belgium, are to form part of a series of exhibitions commemorating the remarkable human sacrifice of the population of the Hebridean...
View ArticleMajor funding success for Dunoon Burgh Hall development
The best possible news has come for one of the most deserving of projects – the restoration and development of Dunoon Burgh Hall.Creative Scotland has confirmed more than £3.5million allocated large...
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Furnace Roll of Honour – the men behind the names
The winter sun was kind to the village of Furnace this afternoon as local people gathered by the War Memorial to remember those killed in the service of their country.This year, the Remembrance Day...
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