Council’s Luing Ferry radio jams emergency shipping channel
Oban Lifeboat had to send a crewman to Luing recently to find and correct a fault in the radio transmission from Argyll and Bute Council’s ferry service to the slate island of Luing, south of Oban.We...
View ArticleCouncillor Blair pulls back from the brink
At yesterday’s meeting of the SNP group ‘leading’ the administration of Argyll and Bute Council, Councillor Gordon Blair chose not to resign from the party.In doing so, he pulled the group back from...
View ArticleCameron correct not to enter into personal debate on Scottish independence
UK Prime Minister has correctly refused the invitation of Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, to enter into a personal debate on television on the independence issue.M Cameron’s stance is correct...
View ArticleFirst Minister shadow boxes in the ring
The SNP conference speeches were familiarly heavy on emotive rhetoric, none more so than the First Minister’s final address.One ought always to feel uncomfortable in the presence of a clear drive to...
View ArticleConcerns raised on loss of perspective in Salmond’s rant at Spain...
Two senior British civil servants were recently invited to Madrid by Spain’s Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, to discuss with Spanish civil servants the independence referendum to take place in Scotland...
View ArticleIndy: which masters of the sooniverse?
We have a United Kingdom with:an operational principle of government that is neither designed for nor fit for what it needs to do in today’s world;Northern Ireland currently in retrogressive mode;Wales...
View ArticleMinister’s email to Jackie Baillie shows he has been mischievously misinformed
Users of addiction services in Argyll and Bute have been distressed by the chaotic and unmanaged fast tracking of a profound change to the delivery of these services, due to take place on 1st January...
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