Report of helicopter crash into Glasgow pub
Updated below 22.00 30th November] 29th November: 22.50 – A report has come in that a police helicopter has hit the roof of a pub in Glasgow.This has been confirmed and fire crews are in...
View ArticleFor Argyll 2013 tributes: for the individuals
This is for people who have made a difference in 2013, sometimes in acting together, sometimes in acting alone.Our increasingly machine-like society likes to pretend that individuals don’t matter, that...
View ArticleOban High School’s 17 year old Daniel Burt co-authors academic paper on...
The Scottish Association for Marine Science [SAMS] is calling attention to a remarkable achievement by a young Oban High School scientist.Daniel Burt, while an Oban High School student, generated some...
View ArticleTribute to Robin Banks
Although it was known that he had not been well for some time, it was with a great sense of sadness that people throughout Argyll and far beyond heard of the sudden passing of Robin Banks on Sunday 2nd...
View Article7th Kintyre Songwriters Festival lassoos top headliners
Scott Hutchison and Pete MacLeod are to headline the 7th annual Kintyre Songwriters Festival, which is back in Campbeltown from the 23rd to the 25th of May 2014.The festival attracts some of the top...
View ArticleA seat for Sylvie: touching tribute to Sylvie McLardy by Kilmartin Musem
Sylvie McLardy was the endlessly cheerful manager of the shop at Argyll’s Kilmartin Museum. She died in 2010 and now her family and friends, with the museum, are working together to raise funds to...
View ArticleStuart Owen
Stuart Owen, the successful and committed manager of Mid Argyll Community Pool in Lochgilphead, collapsed suddenly and later died on Saturday morning while – typically – contributing to the Lochgair...
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Andy Mahon: a photo-by-photo tribute to Draken Harald Hårfagre as she arrives...
Well she made it, maybe not fully intact [minus her mast] - but a magnificent sight, none the less.Draken Harald Hårfagre took her pilot [Alan] shortly after 07.30 this morning, 17th July, arriving...
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British Virgin Islands presents stamp to HMS Argyll in tribute to long...
HMS Argyll is currently deployed to the Caribbean, with her latest island call a two day stopover in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.While she was there the ship’s company took part in sport and...
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The view from Lochinvar: party of the century from the Commonwealth Flotilla
Yesterday, 26th July 2014, was about a great river – the Clyde; about boating and commercial maritime business; and about people – so many people. CalMac’s newest ferry, MV Lochinvar, led the...
View ArticleNigel Price
The worlds of Scottish horticulture and of National Trust gardens, as well as his family and many friends, have been mourning the premature loss to cancer on 22nd September 2014 of Nigel Price,...
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Jan Nimmo doing portraits of workers at Argyll Colliery – and wants to hear...
The artist,Jan Nimmo, whose father was a shot-firer at the Argyll Colliery in Drumleman at Machrihanish near Campbeltown and who made the unforgettable video, The Road to Drumleman, feayuring several...
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SAMS launches Laurence Mee Centre for Society and the Sea
On 20th November 2014, the Scottish Association for Marine Science [SAMS] at Dunstaffnage near Oban, launched a new research centre to improve understanding of how society interacts with the marine...
View ArticleSpiritually generous and insightful tribute to Gordon Brown from Jim Murphy
Scottish Labour politician, Jim Murphy, the leading of three candidates for the leadership of the Scottish party which will be resolved in under a fortnight, has today published a tribute to, Gordon...
View ArticleMcGrigor pays tribute to RNLI and Mountain Rescue volunteers
Against the background of weather conditions which will sharpen everyone’s understanding, Highlands and Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor has today paid tribute to the Scottish Parliament to the RNLI and...
View ArticlePermanent Secretary to Scottish Government steps down to mixed reviews
64 year old Sir Peter Housden, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government – Head of the Scottish Civil Service – has announced that he is standing down at the end of June this year, 2015, to allow...
View ArticleWilliam G Craig
It is with much sadness the Craig family announce the passing of William G Craig, Chairman of West Coast Motors, on Saturday 28th March 2015. He had been battling oesophageal cancer since September...
View ArticleDick Balharry – tribute from Chief Executive of Scottish Natural Heritage
With the death yesterday of Dick Balharry we have lost a friend, colleague and formidable champion of wild land. A largely self-taught naturalist, Dick was created a MBE in 1996, and received an...
View ArticleTribute for the archives prompts donations to Dunoon Burgh Hall
Photographer, Jean Donaldson,has put together a wonderful gift for Dunoon Burgh Hall and its many community supporters.With the hall now closed for a major repair and renovation programme, Jean...
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Argyll’s Stramash pays tribute to a formative genius, Dick Balharry
Dick Balharry’s wholly inspirational impact on Argyll’s outdoor learning specialist, Stramash, came about through a coincidental conversation in 2012.Ross Lilley from SNH had mentioned the West...
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