New volunteer group, Helensburgh & Lomond Autism/Aspergers Society, takes the...
Helensburgh & Lomond Autism/Aspergers Society was formed around 6 months ago, initially through Facebook, when parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders [ASD] recognised that there was no...
View ArticleStandard Life now restructuring to move accounts out of Scotland
What is frightening is not scaremongering, particularly when it is actually happening.As well as pension and investment funds now being actively transferred out of Scotland in increasing financial...
View ArticleIndy: the constitutional options of the Northern and Western Isles – and...
[Revised 11.45] In an article on this page, Andrew Argyle raises the issue of Shetland at least and possibly the Northern Isles deciding to stay in the United Kingdom in the event of a ‘Yes’ vote. His...
View ArticleReader Jamie Black ‘walking with destiny’ on Calton Hill
This was For Argyll reader Jamie Black, walking on Calton Hill in Edinburgh earlier this evening, 1th September.His friend described the photograph as his ‘walking with destiny’ moment.These are images...
View ArticleBBC ALBA focus on the life savers of the Paediatric Retrieval Service
The Paediatric Retrieval Service provides a unique and vital service at the heart of NHS Scotland.Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, this team of specialist doctors and nurses are on call to...
View ArticleGlasgow to get a Martin Wishart restaurant
This Autumn the acclaimed Chef, Martin Wishart, of Michelin starred Cameron House Hotel on Loch Lomond and the self-named Restaurant Martin Wishart in Leith in Edinburgh, is to team up with the...
View ArticleCrown Office issues communique on Human Trafficking Summit
The Crown Office has issued the communique below on the Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC’s, hosting of a Human Trafficking Summit at the Scottish Parliament today, 17th October 2014.This was the...
View ArticleCorporate quadrille in airport sales weakens force of competition law
It was announced yesterday, 17th October 2014, that Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports had been sold by Heathrow Airports Holdings to a consortium of Spain’s Ferrovial and Australia’s Macquarie...
View ArticleUpdate on A82 Fortwilliam to Onich – and public information deficits
The removal of trees from this section of the A82, following yesterday’s slippage and road closure has been completed.However, significant concern remains regarding the safety of the slopes above the...
View ArticleTotty rocks as new FM elected at Holyrood
An early wrong note from Scotland’s new First Minister as her accession is accompanied by a fawning press release from the SNP’s media team, making sure the world knows exactly what Ms Sturgeon was...
View ArticleBaillie scores off a penalty as Swinney wisely back tracks on stamp duty
It was only in October last, not long after Chancellor George Osborne had altered the stamp duty on property sales, that Scotland’s Finance Secretary and Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, produced...
View Article‘Named Person’ legislation wreaking havoc in Highland family
[Updated 21st January] We have been unable to establish the timeline in this story linked from another source – who themselves have been unable to do the same with their own source.We have therefore...
View ArticleBBC ALBA revisits the story of Jessie King, the last woman executed in Edinburgh
The murder of a baby is surely the most abhorrent crime imaginable. When the killer is a woman, society is even more repelled. In Victorian Edinburgh, one young woman was convicted of just that crime....
View ArticleSlavery today – and in Scotland
In one of the most indefensible actions, in 2012 the current UK Government amended the conditions laid down in the 1998 Overseas Domestic Workers Visa provision, a conscious reform of working...
View ArticleNew Savills research predicts [with caveats] Scotland’s residential market to...
Savills Research launched today, 24th February, to around 300 Scottish Property professionals at a Savills Property Outlook seminar in Edinburgh.The news from the unit’s recent researches was positive...
View ArticleConservatives suggest new network of recovery centres to treat drunks outwith...
The Scottish Conservatives have come up with a plan for separate recovery centres designed to receive and treat drunks, freeing up our crisis-ridden, hugely overloaded accident & emergency services...
View ArticleOfcom licences three more Scottish local television services
Local TV is a new form of broadcasting, enabled through legislation passed by the UK Parliament in 2011. A total of 16 local TV services are now on-air, from Brighton and Hove to Cardiff, Belfast and...
View ArticleSound of Jura launches 2015 live music series with KIrsty Law Band
Sound of Jura is back with more live music on Jura for the 2015 season. The first sthis year combines traditional Scots songs from a rising star on the Scottish folk scene, along with the long awaited...
View ArticleUNBREAKABLE: 940km extreme sporting challenge
With its CEO saying: ‘This is going to be tough. Wimps need not apply’, UNBREAKABLE, a Scottish extreme sporting challenge, is being launched by ProjectScotland, the charity which helps young people to...
View ArticleGlasgow-Edinburgh rail travel – will Winchburgh Tunnel engineering works...
ScotRail needs to divert trains and use replacement buses during the engineering works about to start tomorrow, 13th June, to lower the level of the track in the Winchburgh Tunnel on the...
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