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Oban Lifeboat pushes the boat out for 40th anniversary open day
In a programme full of interest, Oban Lifeboat Station’s 40th anniversary open day promises to be a real work of art.The event on Saturday, August 11, will offer people the chance to look round the...
View ArticleJackie Baillie speaks for everyone in admiration of Helensburgh’s...
Local MSP, Jackie Baillie, adds her congratulations to the widespread delight at the performance of Helensburgh’s wheelchair tennis star, Gordon Reid.Gordon reached the quarter finals of the men’s...
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Happy Christmas
And tonight we will reveal ten of a series of contributions to a great year.Then at the close of the year we will unveil ten more.This has been a significant year for Argyll, with substantial...
View ArticleThanks to ‘redundant’ Willie Young – not retiring and raring to go
[Updated 16th March] Argyll’s young folk are fitter, faster and more self confident; and a lot of adults are first class sports coaches. Argyll and Bute Council’s sports supremo, Willie Young, left his...
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National award on TV tonight for Luss Primary School: reared Britain’s rarest...
Luss Primary School, on the shores of Loch Lomond, has taken a highly prestigious award in the British Animal Honours, to be shown on primetime STV tonight.This is in recognition of the school’s...
View ArticleOban woman in superb fast finish in 2013 London Marathon
Susan Partridge from Oban was one of the two first British runners to finish in yesterdays 2013 London Marathon.She came in with a great result as the 9th fastest woman and did it in a personal best of...
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Inveraray and District Pipe Band in major pre-World Championships concert
Inveraray and District Pipe Band is revving up for another competitive season – which, for 2013, starts, not with the Scottish but the British Championships which will be at the end of May in...
View ArticleCare Accolade 2013 recognition for Argyll and Bute Council Community Dementia...
The work of Argyll and Bute Council’s Community Dementia Team has been shortlisted for the 2013 Care Accolades.Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, Rhoda Grant has lodged a motion in the Scottish...
View ArticleLoch Fyne Whiskies sold
It has been announced today that the famed specialist whisky retailer, Loch Fyne Whiskies, has been sold to The Whisky Shop.The Inveraray business was built up by owner Richard Joynson who was honoured...
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Cairndow’s Merk Hydro project 7 years in the starting: first there were two
Today, 3rd May 2103, is a landmark in the achievements and the future sustainability of the community of Cairndow at the head of the Loch Fyne.Young Finn North [with apologies that a camera sodden with...
View ArticleArgyll College 6th in Scotland’s Best Medium-Large Workplaces Award
For the third year in a row, Argyll College, University of the Highlands and Islands, has taken one of the Scotland’s Best Workplaces Awards.At a ceremony on 9th May – at the Grand Central Hotel in...
View ArticleFabulous results for Campbeltown AFC and Lochgilphead Red Star
Kintyre football historian, Alex McKinven, has just passed on the news that Campbeltown Amateur Football Club are now Champions of the Scottish Amateur Football League Premier Division Two.He says:...
View Article11 Argyll finalists in Central South West region 2013 Scottish Thistle...
[Updated 16th May] Eleven of thirty two of the Regional Finalists for Central South West in the 2013 Scottish Thistle Awards for tourism are in Argyll.The eleven are headed by our hard working and...
View ArticleTrip Advisor names Argyll Adventure as Top Performing Visitor Attraction
Argyll Adventure has been named a Top Performing Visitor Attraction on reviewing at Travellers on the World’s biggest travel website, Trip Advisor.This prestigious award is given in recognition that...
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Loch Lomond Seaplanes awarded TripAdvisor 2013 Certificate of Excellence
TripAdvisor has announced that it is is delighted to recognise Loch Lomond Seaplanes with a 2013 Certificate of Excellence, saying: ‘This prestigious award, which places you in the top-performing 10%...
View ArticleOlympian and double Commonwealth Gold swim star David Carry at MacPool to see...
Double Commonwealth gold medallist David Carry will be at MACPool, the Mid Argyll Community Pool in Lochgilphead, today, Monday 3rd June, to deliver the final instalment of the Scottish Gas funding...
View ArticleAlex McKinven: Argyll Select wins Joe Paterson Memorial Football Trophy
In a thrilling ‘golden goals’ finish on Saturday 1st June 2013, Argyll Select beat the Scottish Amateur Football League Select on penalty kicks to claim the Joe Paterson Memorial Trophy at Tarbert.Two...
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Inveraray & District Juvenile Pipe Band making good music
The Inveraray & District Grade 1 pipe band may have had no competitions for the past couple of weeks – but the same could not be said of its Juvenile band.The Juveniles were off to Shotts on...
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Heart of Argyll Tourism Alliance –‘one of the best cooperatives in the...
- and Argyll and the Isles Tourism Cooperative is now an sectoral case study.Heart of Argyll Tourism Alliance co-operative has been named as one of the UK’s leading co-operatives and has been...
View Article5 Argyll projects in 6 category finals of 2013 Nature of Scotland Awards
Sustainable fishing, wildlife gardens, beavers and bean geese, were just some of the projects announced as finalists in RSPB Scotland’s Nature of Scotland Awards at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday...
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