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Spirit of the West Festival tickets on sale with a few surprises from The...
Tickets for the whisky, food and entertainment Spirit of the West Festival at Inveraray Castle on 16th and 17th May are for sale online via the website.Performers from Cowal’s The Walking Theatre...
View ArticleClimate change sees Arctic Penguin surface for sale on ebay
The Directors of Inveraray’s Maritime Heritage Centre, with the climate changes in business, have berthed on ebay the Arctic Penguin, the ship that is part of and houses the museum.On the National...
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Public Meeting on Clydeport and Maersk ships in Loch Striven
This public meeting – on 19th March – was called by petition from the residents of South Cowal and, with scant attention from some of the senior invitees, it became not a dispirited session but...
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Castaway’s Taransay island for sale
The outstandingly beautiful island of Taransay, made famous as the setting for the television series Castaway – an early and arguably the best example of reality television, is shortly coming to the...
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Eilean Righ in Loch Craignish for sale
An Argyll island with a fascinating past its seller may not even know – because selling agents Knight Frank make no mention of it – has gone on the market.You’d need a spare £3 million to pick up the...
View ArticleMoorings for sale and loan in Oban
Oban’s Cardingmill Bay Mooring Owners Association has two moorings for sale as of today, 29th August 2012; and four available now for loan.Details are here: Cardingmill Bay Moorings for sale 2012
View ArticleBelfast Coastguard Manager resigns: a month after transfer of responsibility...
[Updated below: 28th January] Rescue Coordination Centre Manager, Richard Newell, of Belfast Coastguard, resigned from his post around two weeks ago.Clyde Coastguard was closed for good on 18th...
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A promised treat for 2013: Caol Ruadh Sculpture Park opens on 5th May
The Caol Ruadh Scuplture Park on the western fringe of Colintraive in South Cowal, facing the Isle of Bute across the Kyles, opens for its second season on Sunday 5th May 2013.The product of the...
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Colonsay looks to buy out its hotel and pub
After a prolonged period of ‘now it’s open, now it’s not’ – including three months when the community stepped in to rent and run it, the Colonsay Hotel is for sale, with the island’s community...
View ArticleAudit Scotland’s own credibility on the line in Castle Toward affair
Dr Christopher Mason is a credible witness. The Trustee and Director of Actual Reality is, as a historian, trained in evidence-based thought and analysis. As someone with long and senior experience of...
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Alesis DM10X electronic drum kit for sale
Oban FM DJ and musician [more on that story shortly], Len Ford, has a drummer friend in Argyll who wishes to sell his Alesis DM10X electronic drum kit – as pictured above.The owner is is looking for...
View ArticleIs Scotland to be bought again by questionable gold?
Today’s, 30th April 2014, edition of the pro-independence national newspaper, The Herald, carried a front page headline piece by Magnus Gardham: ‘Watchdog under pressure over Yes camp spending’.The...
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Vic 27/Auld Reekie/Vital Spark for sale
The puffer that brought puffers into the public consciousness through the televising of Neil Munro’s hilarious tales of The Vital Spark and her characterful crew under the unforgettable Para Handy, is...
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Mull’s Ulva Ferry community to have two affordable homes to rent and a plot...
The remarkable community at Ulva Ferry on the Isle of Mull is building two affordable homes to enable couples and families with young children to live, work and go to school in the Ulva Ferry area....
View ArticleIndyref postal votes put up on ebay
But forget it if you think Colin and Chris Weir can step in, buy up a shedload of them and vote them for independence.They – and others – could have done this but the police have been made aware of the...
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Why North Sea is crisis for UK
A big part of the economic landscape of 2015 – and onwards - is the sharp fall in the price of oil, threatening continuing production in the North Sea, employment and state revenues. This will be the...
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Mull’s Ulva Ferry community offering affordable building plot for sale
Always working to create a community and to make it sustainable amongst the dispersed folk in the Ulva Ferry area of west Mull, the Ulva School Community Association is offering an affordable building...
View ArticleChief Constable lets slip plans to sell off Dumbarton divisional Police...
Labour candidate Gemma Doyle and local MSP Jackie Baillie have demanded answers from Sir Stephen House over comments he made on the future of Dumbarton’s Police HQ.Scotland’s top police chief told The...
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