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Open for business today: new £3m Loch Lomond Arms Hotel in Luss
Today, 20th August 2012, the new £3m Loch Lomond Arms Hotel is open for business, with a warm welcome waiting for locals and visitors alike.The project has been a labour of love for the Luss Estates...
View ArticleSNH publishes latest report on Scottish Beaver Trial
The latest report on beaver ecology as part of the Scottish Beaver Trial has been published by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).A group of European beavers was reintroduced to Knapdale forest near...
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Julian Penney: 2012 Oban Sea Kayak Race
Saturday 25th August saw the third Oban sea kayak race. This annual event is fast becoming a must for sea kayak competitors from all over the UK.This years race saw nearly 6o participants and much...
View ArticleA83: Progress of Argyll First petition
The Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee has updated the Argyll First group of councillors on the progress of their petition Sign for the A83, which is being heard by the committee.The...
View ArticleHave you got your ticket for BOWfeast?
Yes. we know it’s BOWfest – but this Best of the West festival is a feast of epic dimensions.Make a cup of coffee. Sit down – read on and get a sense of just what a feast of a menu of music, food,...
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Council enforcement staff to discuss fly tipping on Easdale Island
[Update - new photograph at foot] There are downsides to the idyll of island life. The photographs here demonstrate a matter of concern to Argyll and Bute Council planning and enforcement...
View ArticleWitty and clever promotion from Machrihanish Dunes
The latest promotional news from the Machrihanish Dunes team is clever, fun, contextualised, utterly memorable and is a major prompt for marketing Campbeltown.Headlined ‘Choice Kintyre Holiday’, the...
View ArticleBOWfeast? BOWfest. Got a ticket? And if it rains…
Go anyway. The majority of the events are undercover – the whisky tastings [the most extensive ever], the bands and the children’s tents. And the music tent holds over 800.This is not the Best of the...
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BOWled over by BOWfest: huge success and major boost for Argyll tourism
[18th September update- 2 new photos] The photograph proves the point – this visitor to Inveraray and to BOWfest was one of the many who collected armfuls of brochures on the tourism offer in Argyll...
View ArticleTransport Scotland agreement on old military road is NOT with private landlord
The confusions continue. The landlord with whom Transport Scotland have a minute of understanding in relation to the proposed preparation of the old military road in Glen Core to do service as an...
View ArticleFirst Dark Sky Discovery Site for Argyll
On Friday 19th October, West Kintyre Stargazers announced that their nomination for a Dark Sky Discovery Site in Kintyre has been successful.The Putechan Hotel near Bellochantuy – already a dining...
View Article27th round of oil and gas licences sees records broken
UK oil and gas investment is looking good after the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change [DECC] announced earlier today, 25th October, the winners of the record breaking 167 new...
View ArticleScorching council programme for Coaching Champions 2013
This is one of these things that make reincarnation a seductive proposition - the chance to start over with the sort of opportunities jumping, running, paddling and climbing out of every page of...
View ArticleCalMac warns of possible weather disruption to ferries this weekend
Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne is warning of possible disruptions to its services this weekend (December 28-30) due to a forecast of high winds.CalMac is advising ferry travellers to check the...
View ArticleA83 once again on landslide alert
[UPdate late 29th January: cleared.] Around 11.00 this morning, 29th January, Transport Scotland replaced the warnings of increased risk of landslides on the A83 at Rest and Be Thankful that it had...
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Argyll and the Isles’ Secrets Collection: Otter Ferry at Port Ann
With the weather calling many of us outdoors, this seemed like a good moment for the third in the Argyll and the Isles Secrets Collection.On the A83, between Lochgilphead and Lochgair is the township...
View ArticleArgyll and the Isles Tourism fronting two marine tourism workshops at...
Tomorrow – 8th March, Carron Tobin and Mike Story from Argyll and the Isles Tourism Ltd, will lead workshop sessions on marine tourism at Holyrood during a one-day conference on that topic: ‘Marine...
View ArticleArgyll and the Isles Tourism stormed Holyrood
Mike Story, CEO of Argyll and the Isles Tourism and his colleague, Carron Toibin, of Heart of Argyll Tourism Association were at the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood a couple of days ago leading...
View ArticleSNP meeting on Monday may be testing time for mega-coalition proposal
The agreement made between former Council Leader, Dick Walsh and the SNPs ‘negotiating team’ of former local party group leader, Robert E MacIntyre from Bute and novice councillors Louise Glen-Lee and...
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Argyll and the Isles’ Secrets Collection: The view from Aqualibrium – and the...
We keep saying how fabulous is the view from the first floor swimming pool of Campbeltown’s Aqualibrium – and it occurred to us that we’d never provided the evidence.So here it is.In this photograph...
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