Internet advertising spend leaves TV behind
The UK has become the first major world economy to see Internet advertising spend overtake the amount spent on TV ads.Research by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers has...
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Sustainable Design Awards: the Conservation finalist
Today we’re bringing details of the Machrimore Mill conversion at Southend on the Mull of Kintyre. This is the single finalist in the Conservation category so there is nothing to vote on. The panel of...
View ArticleCouncil & HOMEArgyll move on housing shortage
Together, Argyll & Bute Council and HOMEArgyll (made up of the local housing associations) are preparing to apply to the Scottish Government to have areas within the local authority’s jurisdiction...
View ArticleRoyal Society of Edinburgh critical of Pack Report on agriculture support
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) has serious concerns about parts of the interim Pack Report on future support for Agriculture. Its criticisms centre on the proposed focus for support; the lack of...
View ArticleLAST CALL to support changes to Crown Estate rights in Scotland
Today (14th January 2011) is the last day for submitting written responses to the Scotland Bill. A very major issue for Scotland is all but buried in the formal Call For Written Evidence to which those...
View ArticleDavid MacBrayne Group says review of coastguard services should ‘save lives...
Major ferry operators, the David MacBrayne Group, know a thing or two,from long experience, about the waters of Scotland’s inshore and offshore west and north coasts.Only a month ago on 18th April,...
View ArticleThat 8 minute meeting and the council Executive committee
The Argyll First group has consistently campaigned against the anti-democratic Executive committee at Argyll and Bute council.Their argument is that it gives effective executive power to selected...
View ArticleThe knowing misapplication of evidence to deny community impact
In strenuous efforts in his submission to dismiss the mutual sustainability of community and school, Mr Sneddon uses the very same trick he was exposed as trying during the closure proposals.In his...
View ArticleUnited opposition dissociates itself from Executive response to Commission on...
The following agreed statement has been issued by opposition councillors on Argyll and Bute Council - SNP, Argyll First, Argyll and Bute Independent Councillors Group and non-aligned councillor, James...
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ARSN submission to Rural Education Commission
The Argyll Rural Schools Network (ARSN) has made its submission to the Commission on the Delivery of Rural Education, with the Commission due to hold a public meeting in Lochgilphead on 6th March –...
View ArticleHerald loses judgment in blatantly political excursion on school closures
Saturday’s edition of The Herald (14th April 2012) went spectacularly off piste in an astonishing series of items on the school closures issue.The initial impactThese pieces were immediately over the...
View ArticleFinal report of Commission on Delivery of Rural Education due soon
The long awaited report of the Commission on the Delivery of Rural Education is due to be submitted in August this year – little more than six weeks to go at the most. It is to be published upon its...
View ArticleMull and Iona only Scottish tourism destination on shortlist for Green...
Mull & Iona have more Green Tourism Business Scheme members than any other island.The Green Tourism Business Scheme has now put the two sister Argyll islands on a shortlist for the Green Tourism...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council seriously misleads Holyrood Education Committee
And they’ve done it in writing.On 3rd December 2013, Argyll and Bute Council made a written submission of evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Culture Committee, which is considering...
View ArticleSRSN Chair raises issue of Argyll evidence with Holyrood Education Committee
Chair of the respected Scottish Rural Schools Network [SRSN], Sandy Longmuir, has written to the Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee, raising the complex deceptions in the evidence given in...
View ArticleParliament’s Education Committee in wholly contradictory inaction on...
The Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee this week considered matters around the written ‘evidence’ submitted to on 3rd December 2013 by Cleland Sneddon, Education Director and Executive Director...
View ArticleClarity at last on states, rights, institutions, assets and liabiities in the...
Professor Adam Tomkins, John Millar Professor of Public Law at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow, is one of the leading scholars in constitutional law in the United Kingdom.Just over three...
View ArticleLandowners propose amnesty on tenant improvements
Scottish Land & Estates, which represents landowners across Scotland, announced on Thursday 27th February that it is to propose an unprecedented ‘amnesty’ for farm tenancy improvements.The...
View ArticleRegional Air Connectivity Fund goes to £20 million
Back on 27th June last year, 2013, Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, delivered his ‘Investing in Britain’s Future’ speech on the government’s infrastructural development plan.In that...
View ArticleEwan Kennedy submission to Scottish Government’s Wild Fisheries Review
Former solicitor Ewan Kennedy, a leading figure in the enviably able and resourceful [but unsuccessful] saveseilsound campaign against the giant Ardmaddy salmon farm, has made an individual submission...
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