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What we don’t know about Argyll College
Argyll College is another of Argyll’s silent pioneers – seen and unseen, known and not known, working away out of the public eye.Everybody knows it exists because it has a presence built to respond to...
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SNP presents candidates, manifesto and leader-elect
‘Building for Recovery’ is what the manifesto says, the first and foundation laying episode of a series of detailed manifestos which will progressively be released during the campaign for the local...
View ArticleTwo years in a row: Argyll College UHI one of Scotland’s best workplaces
At an awards dinner – hosted by the Great Place to Work Institute UK – on 25th April at the Radisson Blu hotel in Glasgow, Argyll College, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) took 8th...
View ArticleArgyll First endorse Michael Breslin in Dunoon vote
The respected Argyll First Group of councillors, whose performance in their respective seats in South Kintyre, Kintyre and the Islands and Mid Argyll was a resounding vote of confidence from the...
View ArticleDunoon Ward count and RESULT
11th May 10.30: Vote analysis.At a personal level, this was a public vote of support for Dick Walsh, who topped the poll, got the highest percentage of the vote, was elected at the first count – as was...
View ArticleTwo Argyll primary schools win at Scottish Education Awards 2012
(Updated 13th June) Two of Argyll’s rural primary schools carried off wins at tonight’s Scottish Education Awards 2012 event.This was at the Grosvenor Hotel in Glasgow and was hosted by BBC Scotland’s...
View ArticleNew council administration appears not to be what it seemed
We understand, on good authority, that the proposed new administration for Argyll and Bute Council has not emerged from a sound or indeed, a proper, decision taking process.Two Conservative...
View ArticleCouncil chit-chat
Some frivolity from Kilmory as the new council administration gets down to work.At the Oban CHORD meeting on Tuesday 22nd October, Depute Council Leader, Ellen Morton, turned up and assertively...
View ArticleCouncil meeting: is this what Audit Scotland had in mind?
Instead of being an occasion for girding the loins and cleaning the stable, it felt like the last day of term this morning at Argyll and Bute Council – or a jolly in a windowless bunker with all...
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 ArticleFour councillors reply to Actual Reality Trustee’s email on Castle Toward affair
Dr Christopher Mason has confirmed that he has received replies from four of Argyll and Bute’s coucillors to the emailed letter he sent to all 36 of them on Saturday 14th December, the subject of an...
View ArticleRumours of serious tensions in new council administration
[This article was due to be published visibly yesterday, 18th December, as shown. It was, however, disrupted by a power cut in the ongoing storms, lost its formatting and although technically...
View ArticleSNP group vote for motion they would not second; and Provost chastises...
The prospect of being exchanged for the SNP group next year as Council Leader Walsh’s support act, clearly improved the fidelity of the Argyll Lomond and the Isles group of councillors at Thursday’s...
View ArticleCouncillors Breslin and Marshall at Cowal Gathering to champion Revive The...
Revive the Clyde is a campaign to encourage the Scottish Government to manage the Firth of Clyde marine environment and its fishery in an ecologically and economically sustainable way.The campaign,...
View ArticleSo who’s in the SNP Council Group today – and should they be?
For Argyll has seen records of conversations with Argyll and Bute Council’s SNP Council Group Leader, Sandy Taylor, which took place at the end of May 2013.Mr Taylor was asked who exactly were the then...
View ArticleSNP considering coalition in Argyll and Bute
Politics really are stranger than fiction.The SNP group of councillors are meeting on Monday 27th October to consider going into coalition with the current administration at Argyll and Bute Council –...
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Launch of a Credit Union for Cowal
This is a significant development in the campaign to move accessible and responsible lending away from the horrors of the fast-breeder interest reactors of the Wonga tribe. It is good to see Cowal...
View ArticleRussell writes to councillors on Castle Toward decision tomorrow as some are...
There are two new developments in the saga of Castle Toward.On technicalities applied at his discretion, the Council Leader this morning denied a vote to two Cowal councillors attending tomorrow’s...
View ArticleMSP asks Council Leader to refer Castle Toward decision to Area Committee
Describing Argyll and Bute Council as a ‘casino bank’ for ‘offering to lend £1 million pounds to a body which couldn’t repay it’, local MSP, Michael Russell has just released a letter he has written to...
View ArticleInternal council emails on Castle Toward and South Cowal Community...
These exchanges are the material attached to the article of 12th January 2015: Castle Toward – the OK Corral.They record councillors’ responses to challenging questions asked of them by Dunoon...
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