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Looking at Dunoon: the good
If you ignore the town centre and take to the hills that lift the town of Dunoon away from the Clyde the town leaves largely to its own devices, you will find a very different place – one that teaches...
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Looking at Dunoon: the bad and the ugly
Dunoon, like many places whose heyday was in a different cultural mode and decades ago, has many faces.The Clydeside town’s principal difficulty is that it’s most unimpressive face is its worst face –...
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Looking at Dunoon: where next?
We’ve looked at the good, the bad and the downright ugly in Dunoon – and there are plenty of all of them.The question is what the town can do with itself as it stands on the edge of being...
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Restoration funding for Campbeltown’s glorious town hall
The Big Lottery Fund has just spread the icing on the towering 18th Century white wedding cake of a town hall that is a grace note on Campbeltown’s main street.It has granted the South Kintyre...
View ArticleScottish Water to start upgrade of Bowmore’s waste water network
Scottish Water is shortly to start work on an essential upgrade of a section of the waste water network in the lovely waterside village of Bowmore on Islay’s Loch Indaal.This work involves the...
View ArticlePolice Scotland Lochgilphead: police reports for week to 22nd July 2014
Theft Between 1 September 2013 and 12 July 2014 an outboard engine was stolen from a hut at the Castle Sween Caravan Park, Achnamara. Police request that should anyone have any information to contact...
View ArticleWhile Tobermory Lifeboat’s Press Officer crew member was on holiday – shouts...
Dr Sam Jones, one of the volunteer crew of the Tobermory lifeboat, Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsey and its Press Officer, actually took a holiday.While she was away, the Severn class lifeboat and her...
View ArticleArgyll mainland and Mull roads badly hit by flooding and landslip
As well as the Old Military Road in Glen Croe facing flooding difficulties last night, this morning sees a wide spectrum of roads in Argyll and the Isles suffering closure and disruption from...
View ArticleA way of looking at the world
Contemporary management techniques involve ‘creating the ‘we’ in your organisation’.The example used is that of a janitor employed at NASA to sweep the floors.Asked what he got out of his job, he said:...
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