First Minister’s revelatory refusal to pay Scotland’s share of upkeep of Head...
The news that Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is refusing to pay the £2 million a year that is assigned to Scotland towards the costs of the Royal Family raises a series of questions and...
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The real ‘relationship difficulties’ at the heart of Argyll’s dysfunctional...
At every point where anyone has raised the issue of the continuing dysfunctionality of Argyll and Bute’s Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP], funded by the Scottish Government to the tune of £1.2...
View ArticleToo little to late – ADP extends local service providers contracts by a month
In proof of their innate incompetence and dysfunctionality, the Argyll & Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP] has reacted to widespread alarm by suddenly extending by one month the contracts of...
View ArticleFor Argyll’s tributes to the 2014 trail blazers
So what made 2014 the year of years it has been?The headline tributes of 2014 have to centre on the volcanic independence referendum: to the SNP for shaking up the Union as it has needed to be shaken...
View ArticleSite problem with comments failing to post
We may have a problem this morning with reports that some comments are vanishing instead of displaying. This may or may not affect all site users – but our Technical Director is on to this and we will...
View ArticleCouncillor Freeman opens up important issues on Castle Toward affair
Intentionally and unintentionally, Lomond North Councillor, George Freeman, has today, 11th February, opened up important issues related, obliquely and centrally, to the Castle Toward affair.Councillor...
View ArticleCastle Toward a gone deal
[Updated below 18.30] In the succinct words of Councillor Michael Breslin:‘They stuffed it. Motion from Mulvaney and McAlpine and my amendment ruled incompetent. Democracy it is not.’We are confounded...
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Campbell Cameron: Heads up for the final 1500 Skerryvore tickets
Skerryvore – the final 1500. On sale today.The hottest ticket in the Highlands is the one for the Skerryvore Decade extravaganza for Mossfield Stadium in Oban on 31st May 2015.1500 tickets went on sale...
View ArticleThen and now: 2009-10 issues on televised election debates
For Argyll published the article linked below on 5th October 2009, in the run up to the UK 2010 General Election.It lays out the positions then and the difference between then and now is encouraging in...
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ONE VOTE for freedom – with Scotland’s BIG Voice
Every vote in the coming UK General Election is a vote for freedom: either a vote for what will be a totalitarian restriction of freedom in an SNP dominated Scotland – independent or not; or a vote...
View ArticleTactical voting in Argyll and Bute: Alan Reid the most likely pro-union...
Scotland is now fourteen days away away from what is clearly the top of a ski-jump to a one-party-state.If the height and distance of the victory run the polls steadily predict for the SNP jumpers hits...
View ArticleAlan Reid, Jamie McGrigor and the righting of a serious wrong
On 2nd June 1994, an RAF Chinook Mk2 helicopter, ZD 576, crashed into the hillside near Argyll’s Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse, in heavy fog, at speed and at low altitude.It was carrying 25 of the leading...
View ArticleDear Alex…
We were sent the link below last night. It is an open letter to Alex Salmond from a long time mate he grew up with and who puts his name to it – who did and still does believe in Scottish independence...
View ArticleSite Note: technical problem with names of commenters this morning
Situation resolved – see below] For Argyll appears to have a random problem this morning with the names/pen-names of commenters not displaying above their comments as usual.Our Technical Director has...
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Helensburgh parties dispute over ‘For Argyll poll’
On 19th April Liberal Democrat local MP, Alan Reid’s election agent sent For Argyll a copy of a communication said to have been circulated to members by Helensburgh Conservatives – and asked us to...
View ArticleScottish Government in the dock on Shetland Times’ revelations on 2012...
Every one is well aware that there was dirty work at the crossroads, as they say, on Transport Scotland’s 2012 award of the contract to provide ferry services to the Northern Isles.With four finalists...
View ArticleAudit Scotland issues report on Argyll & Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership...
Audit Scotland released yesterday the report on their investigation into a seriously – and, on evidence, arguably not wholly innocently – mishandled procurement process by the Argyll and Bute Alcohol...
View ArticleHousing Services issues: specific failures of Audit Scotland report on Argyll...
Issues around the provision of Housing Services in this contract are integral to judgments on the integrity of the processes of the relationships between the Invitation to Tender, the contracted...
View ArticleCMAL under scrutiny in increasing dissatisfaction with maritime asset management
As ferry users and the general public begin to understand exactly how the Clyde and Hebridean Ferry Services are delivered and who is responsible for what, there is growing concern and discontent with...
View ArticleApologies for site downtime
Our apologies for a disrupted service since yesterday. We’re working on it and, as you will see, are making headway. Image loading remains a problem but we will get that resolved as soon as possible.
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