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Culpable negligence in Argyll school closure proposals after Western Isles...
Yesterday (14th December 2010) Scottish Ministers called in the four of the current proposals by Western Isles Council to close eleven primary schools on the islands.The consultation procedure was...
View ArticleEurope: UK should look at EFTA
Looking at the situation at the end of the eurozone EU summit last week suggests a strategic direction the UK should pursue quickly at the highest level.Back in 1960, seven European states formed the...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland hosts successful Oban conference
Community Land Scotland, which represents Scotland’s community landowners, hosted a conference today (Friday 7th December) in Oban’s Corran Halls to promote community ownership of land in Argyll.The...
View ArticleEU: the final madness
‘Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad’. The ancient proverb makes one wonder if the EU is top of the list of the old Gods.The union that began as the one thing of real use to...
View ArticleShould Mull vote NO? Mulling over the BID
The Scottish Government introduced the Business Improvement District scheme essentially to try to do two things;encourage businesses to take a degree of responsibility for the physical environment in...
View ArticlePart 2: indicative costs for Struan Lodge
We have come to understand that the Care Inspectorate do not have prescribed staffing ratios when it comes to care homes for the elderly. As part of an individual care home’s ’Conditions of...
View ArticleTarbert & Skipness Community Council recommend a switch away from Vodaphone
The Vodafone signal in Tarbert has been out since 31st March 2015. The current information from Vodafone is that it won’t be restored until today – 14th April – and that may not even happen.The...
View ArticleColonsay running short of basic supplies
Serial technical failures in the leased vessels carrying the CalMac ferry services to the Atlantic Isle of Colonsay – the outermost of the island chain with Islay and Jura, have left the islanders not...
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