Westminster report voices concerns about MCA survey staffing
The House of Commons’ powerful Public Accounts Committee has issued a report on the regulation of UK merchant shipping which expresses concerns about the staffing situation at the Marine and Coastguard...
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Ross County’s Community Coach is Argyll’s new Football Development Officer
More proof that Argyll is on the move. Martin Rae has just seen off heavy competition from across the UK to become Argyll’s new Football Development Officer.Martin is coming south from the cool and...
View ArticleStewart Stevenson downed by Greens on carbon emission targets
Today (18th May) Holyrood’s Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee rejected the Climate Change Minister, Stewart Stevenson’s proposed annual carbon emissions targets.The Scottish Green...
View ArticleMcGrigor challenges government on emissions targets
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today (31st January) published its first progress report of 2012, showing that total emissions in Scotland fell by 7% in 2009 due to the recession.However, it...
View ArticleMPAs, endangered species and the Tiree Array
In December of this year a progress report on the development of the Scottish Marine Protected Area network will be presented to Scottish ministers. This will contain options for MPAs (Marine...
View ArticleATOS de-skilling disability assessors
Documents placed online by the Department of Work and Pensions at Westminster, dealing with the tendering of contracts to assess those in receipt of disability living allowances, have proved quite...
View ArticleBaillie says Royal Alexandra Hospital failed Waiting Times targets for three...
Local MSP, Jackie Baillie, has hit out at the Scottish Government after First Minister, Alex Salmond, played down A&E waiting time failures in the Scottish Parliament last week.This follows the...
View ArticleKintyre and Arran emergency – 29th March
[Update 21.00 below] As of 09.45 there is no news yet from SSE on whether or not they achieved their targets ‘by the end of Thursday night’.These were, having already ‘ reconnected all homes in...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: the horsetrading begins
There is a meeting being arranged for tomorrow between a curious collection of councillors:The SNP’s Sandy Taylor is rumoured to be the likely next party leader if Roddy McCuish decides to step down in...
View ArticleTerrifying near miss on London tube’s Northern Line on Monday evening
On Monday evening, 8th July, a London Underground train out of Finchley Central on the Northern Line was given a target speed to proceed out of the station – and after approximately 2 train lengths was...
View ArticleIf we lose corroboration, we will all be vulnerable to wrongful prosecution...
On 27th February 2014 the SNP majority forced through the Scottish Parliament the first stage of the Criminal Justice [Scotland] Bill by 64 votes to 5 – with 57 abstentions.The figures are alone proof...
View ArticleWithout corroborating evidence, what would a jury do with this?
Most of us continue to believe in the trustworthiness of the police – in general. We know, as does the UK at large, though – and on corroborated evidence – that there are good cops and bad cops, as...
View ArticleIndy vote trumps dropping of corroborative evidence – for a year
Anyone with a brain ought to be glad even of some respite from the planned destruction of safe law in Scotland through Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill’s bull-headed determination to force through the...
View ArticleArgyll’s ill-served dialysis patients a focus in Scottish Parliamnet
At Health Questions in the Scottish Parliament today, 30th April, the plight of dialysis patients in Argyll was brought to the attention of the chamber.Folk in Argyll in need of dialysis face frequent...
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 ArticleCalMac’s digital marketing recognised at Herald Awards
An innovative digital campaign by ferry operator Calmac has been recognised at the 2014 Herald Digital Awards.The company was commended in the Public Sector category for its campaign,...
View ArticleArgyll & Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership: addicted to abuse
On the evidence below – For Argyll is calling for an urgent independent and independently appointed, external investigation of what appear to be serious problems at Argyll & Bute’s Alcohol and...
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