Focus on Highland Mary in news from Cowalfest
The latest e-newsletter from Cowalfest is out. This is the imaginative festival of walking and the arts in the Cowal peninsula and a notably strong performer in the Best Event category of the ForArgyll...
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On the Maersk raft in Loch Striven
Young Highland cows go about their own business as Maersk makes history by inviting, for the first time, a community to meet the company and crew aboard one of its container ships. This is the view...
View ArticleMull to reflect on cancellation of 2010 Tour of Mull Rally
Tonight, from 7.30pm in Criagnure Village Hall, the Isle of Mull takes stock of the situation that has led to the 2300 Club’s cancellation for 2010 of the brightest star in the island’s social and...
View ArticleSuzanne Pilley murder trial under way in Edinburgh
The trial of 49 year old David Gilroy began at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday.Gilroy is charged with murdering Suzanne Pilley on 4th May 2010 and of trying to conceal the murder.The premises of...
View ArticleCouncil Leader, Councillors, CEO, Senior Officers: working relationships
Does this description sound familiar: ‘a local authority in crisis’ with dysfunctional relationships between elected members and CEO ‘leading to rising tensions, poor decision-making and a “difficult...
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Loch Lomond Arms Hotel for summertime opening
Luss Estates and the village of Luss on Loch Lomond side are seeing the Estates’ £3 million investment in the virtual rebuilding of the former Colquhoun Arms Hotel and its rebranding as the Loch Lomond...
View ArticleScotsman sees EU letter indicating independent Scotland would have to apply...
National daily newspaper, The Scotsman is reporting that it has seen an EU letter on the matter of the position of an independent Scotland and the EU.The papers quotes the letter as saying: ‘If a...
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Argyll and the Isles Tourism at Expo 2013: 90 appointments before lunchtime
A beaver seemed to have escaped from Knapdale and somehow met up with the tallest tree [from Ardkinglas?], conspiring to capture a visitor to the Argyll and the Isles Tourism precinct [AITC don't do...
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Arctic Convoy navies celebrated at Loch Ewe as surviving veterans receive...
High on the hillside above Loch Ewe yesterday, 9th May 2013, the Gods smiled with sunshine, warmth and no wind on an assembled crowd of veterans of the World War II Arctic Convoys to north Russia;...
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