Misjudged proposal to spend £2million on Scottish Referendum Commission
Over the past two days there has been a lot of media focus on the Scottish Government’s rejection of the Electoral Commission as the organising body overseeing the proposed Referendum on Scottish...
View ArticleSecond party leader casualty: Lib Dem’s Tavish Scott stands down
Tavish Scott, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, has stepped down from his position with immediate effect.He has said: ‘Thursday’s Scottish general election result was disastrous and I must and do...
View ArticleTavish Scot not to go for Presiding Officer
We understand that the former LibDem Leader, Tavish Scott, received disapponting responses to the soundings carried out by his friends at Holyrood on what sort of support he might expect if he put...
View ArticleGold pillar box for Dunblane with Murray win
Andy Murray took Olympic Gold and Silver medals yesterday, beating Roger Federer with quite awesome assurance in a straight three sets, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4; and losing narrowly to Victoria Azarenka and Max...
View ArticleAt long last: Arctic Convoy Star medal for veterans and descendants
With Christmas on the doorstep, Prime Minister David Cameron has at last fulfilled a pre-election pledge he broke as soon as got into power.He has awarded the Arctic Convoy Star medal, which...
View ArticleReport from Rural Education Commission to be published tomorrow
Tomorrow morning – Friday 19th April – the report from the Commission on the Delivery of Rural Education is to be published, following a presentation at 10.00 at 1000-1100 hours at the Town House in...
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Bonfire of insanities at Argyll and Bute Council: but where now?
By the end of Thurday’s meeting of Argyll and Bute Council, we had seen an orchestrated internal conflict in the SNP administration group come to a head following sudden, contradictory and politically...
View ArticleWill ‘Florencia’ trump Balamory for Tobermory?
The current Duke of Argyll the 13th, is on another treasure hunt in Tobermory Bay – not personally, but in commissioning a diving team, The Poop Company from Somerset to search for the legendary...
View ArticleBaillie fury at Argyll and Bute Council refusal to support all tenants...
Local MSP Jackie Baillie has hit out at Argyll and Bute Council after councillors missed an opportunity last week to end the misery of the bedroom tax in Helensburgh and Lomond.Argyll and Bute Council...
View ArticleSalmond’s continuing threat to default on share of national debt raises clean...
[Updated] In his defiant efforts to recover the substantial ground lost to Alastair Darling – the clear if unexpected winner of Tuesday’s debate [5th August] with the First Minister on the stability of...
View ArticleSalmond departure only hope for healing in Scotland – successor cannot be...
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has announced that he will stand down as First Minister and SNP Leader at his party’s conference in November.There were internal pressures for him to do so and...
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Argyll and the Isles Secrets Collection: Southend and Dunaverty – St Columba,...
Southend is just that – the southern end of the Mull of Kintyre, the southern end of Argyll itself and a strategic command position on the waterways which carried the historic sea traffic of invasion,...
View ArticleBitter alone, Salmond now a declared guerrilla leader in charge of government
A country whose First Minister is a agent of deliberate destabiisation has a constitutional problem on its hands.First Minister Alex Salmond is clearly ‘Bitter Alone’ up in Strichen, with television...
View ArticleSituation analysis 2: Scotland now – the counter attack
Union is a political philosophy. It is one whose value Scotland understands and with which, in its relative support for membership of the EU, it appears comfortable.Scotland is, however,...
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