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MId Argyll Pool Board and staff build for the future
Working in partnership with the Council, winning a grant to appoint a Business Development Manager, attracting more directors with very relevant skills, harvesting political support, pursuing a variety...
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Deputy First Minister plays a welcome straight bat over Gourock Dunoon ferry...
Dunoon and the Gourock Dunoon Ferry Action Group are in something of an upset since the Chair of the group, Susanna Rice, received a letter from Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.When Ms Sturgeon...
View ArticleThe first battle at Thursday’s council meeting – and predictions
The first – and possibly the decisive battle – at Thursday’s meeting of Argyll and Bute Council will be on an apparently minor procedural point: who will take the chair for the session.The Provost is...
View ArticleEmail from SNP Constituency Association Convenor to SNP councillors
This email has just been sent by Robert Allan, Convenor of the SNP’s Argyll and Bute Constituency Association to all SNP councillors in the current coalition administration at Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleBehind the lines: SNP Constituency Association Convenor resigns, Russell...
What is happening behind the lines in the embattled SNP group at Argyll and Bute Council seems to be akin to the regeneration in nature that follows a bush fire.The SNP’s Constituency Association...
View ArticleScottish Government forced to intervene on loose-mouthed Russell gaffe in...
A senseless act of folly by Argyll’s own blunderbus MSP, Michael Russell has now hit the national media and the twittersphere, with the Scottish Government forced to issue a statement to try to put out...
View ArticleOlympian and double Commonwealth Gold swim star David Carry at MacPool to see...
Double Commonwealth gold medallist David Carry will be at MACPool, the Mid Argyll Community Pool in Lochgilphead, today, Monday 3rd June, to deliver the final instalment of the Scottish Gas funding...
View ArticleSNP try to reintegrate Breslin
Councillor Michael Breslin has careered through the SNP Group of Councillors like the skipper of a hunter-killer submarine, surfacing for strategic kills – on his own fleet.The objective was to destroy...
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 ArticleCouncil – Mactaggart’s No 2 now gone
The traditionally belated advertisement to fill the post of Argyll and Bute Council’s former Executive Director for Economic Development and Infrastructure, Sandy Mactaggart, was already a bit of an...
View ArticleCouncil puts employee on notice in major breach of its own policy on...
As is commonly known, the island of Easdale is a deeply divided community. For Argyll has researched and reported on this previously and it is too tedious to rehearse again.This factionalism, with one...
View ArticleCouncil by-election result: Labour takes first seat in Argyll and Bute...
[Updated below] In a personal and political triumph, Neil MacIntyre has won the Oban South and the Isles by-election [Ward 4] for a seat in Argyll and Bute Council.Neil MacIntyre is a familiar...
View ArticleGallipoli: An Irish voice sings of Australian casualties on a Turkish...
25th April 2015 – ANZAC Day – is the centenary of the start of the Gallipoli campaign in World War 1, where the fighting lasted for eight months until 9th January 2016.The aim of the campaign was to...
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