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Mather congratulates Cowal Elderly Befriending Scheme on winning £254,434...
The Cowal Elderly Befriending Scheme is a community based project to help maintain the independence of older people in the area and and help reduce the isolation they often experience. It has been...
View Article60th Anniversary of Campbeltown’s Argyll and Kintyre Drama Festival 19th-21st...
Starting tonight and running until Saturday at Campbeltown Grammar School, the Argyll and Kintyre Drama Festival – on its 60th anniversary – showcases several short one act plays a night. Starting at...
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Cold lay-up for beginners
Most people following and contributing to the rolling story of Clydeport and the Loch Striven raft have little idea of what cold lay-up involves – for the ship owner and the lay-up and maintenance...
View ArticleResearch in Kintyre shows Red Deer are getting smaller
The problem is hybridisation – interbreeding between Scotland’s native Red Deer and the smaller Japanese Sika Deer brought into this country by 19th century Victorian adventurers and improvers.A study...
View ArticleAround the Argyll newspapers
For Argyll sweeps Argyll at depth and covers the bigger picture beyond – but never forget that you only get the full local news from your local newspaper. So buy it.A quick scan of some of this week’s...
View ArticleBaillie leads parliamentary debate on dementia
Local MSP, Jackie Baillie, has backed an innovative project which raises awareness of the vital contribution dementia carers make in Dumbarton, Alexandria and Helensburgh and Lomond.The Dementia Carer...
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Crazy Brave: Niall Iain Macdonald and 3 months alone in a rowing boat across...
Niall Iain Macdonald – whose family heritage runs from Barra, to Stornoway to Inverness – is a man whose sea-going exploits we have reported before.Just over two years ago, in November 2011, the BBC...
View ArticleUK response to the Russia-Crimea situation: selfies, posturing and dangerous...
When the Prime Minister of the UK tweets ‘selfies’ of himself on the phone to the President of the USA, discussing the situation in the Crimea, we have to ask what sort of a nation we have become?The...
View ArticleNATO’s juvenile arms porn at Celtic Manor
Who really wants to join NATO? Yes, it might calm some of the nervier steeds but this week’s display of political analysis [not], warmongering, boys toys actually on the golf course – or was it some...
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