Prospect tells Holyrood Committee that National Trust for Scotland has been...
Prospect, the trade union representing 80% of Trust employees has today, in a submission to Holyrood’s Economy, Energy & Tourism (EET) Committee, stated that the NTS’s recent closures and...
View ArticlePacked 5 hour AGM for National Trust for Scotland
NTS President, the Duke of Buccleuch, must have felt he was underneath a series of collapsing scrums in chairing Saturday’s non-stop five hour National Trust for Scotland AGM at Murrayfield in...
View ArticleA score for In Trust for Scotland in dispute with NTS
The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) members’ lobby group, In Trust for Scotland (ITFS) has been engaged in a confrontation with the organisation since the precipitate announcement in the Spring of...
View ArticleFresh from Islay’s beach rugby: ‘Mighty Mouse’ McLauchlan, new SRU President
Ian Maclauchlan, annual supporter of the fabulous Islay Beach Rugby stamina challenge, is the new President of the Scottish Rugby Union and already looks like as strong a prop for the SRU as he was on...
View ArticleScottish Review publishes Ewan Kennedy on west coast surrender to fish farming
The Scottish Review online has today published an article by Ewan Kennedy, on the subject about which he has written a series of articles for For Argyll – the lack of necessary governance of fish...
View ArticleMore troubling signals from the eurozone
Three pieces of news on developments in the eurozone come at the same time, together indicating potential destabilisation.The Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, has announced downgraded growth...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: the serious stuff
On the agenda of tomorrow’s council meeting, 23rd May 2013, is a matter of real concern to Dunoon and part of Cowal: the future of three local primary schools: Dunoon, Kirn and St Mun’s – with pre-5...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: now and next
SNP Councillor Roddy McCuish from Oban is Council Leader.The following councillors continue today, 29th May, to hold Lead and Depute Lead responsibilities, under constitutional arrangements which...
View ArticleWhite smoke rises from Councillor Duncan MacIntyre’s chimney as two-man...
Just when you thought there were no tricks left to play, politics, as it is done in Argyll and Bute, has spewed up two stunning twists.The first twistOban – and beyond – has been transfixed by the...
View ArticleEver Increasing Circles indeed – and a comedy turn for Monday
For Argyll has recently published an article on Ever Increasing Circles – an approach to improving council performance, emerging from the Argyll and Bute for Change group.From its philosophical nature,...
View ArticleTomorrow’s Council meeting agenda: presence of Audit Scotland spurs CEO to...
In a recent article on Audit Scotland’s research and guidance on Roles and Working Relationships for Councillors and Officers, we quoted a passage from this concise and valuable document:‘Councils are...
View ArticleCouncil Meeting: resounding endorsement of Council Leader as inclusive way...
[Updated below 22.30] The full meeting of Argyll Bute Council this morning, 27th June, spent 90 minutes debating the relative merits of a motion from the Argyll and Bute for Change group and an...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: trouble between the engaged couple
All is not well in the engagement announced recently by Councilllor Sandy Taylor and Councillor Duncan Macintyre [Dumbo and Rambo], for the forthcoming marriage in coalition of the SNP Group of...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council Chamber and the gender problem
During the upheavals of the past year at Argyll and Bute Council, there have been passing references to male councillors whose treatment of women councillors would be familiar to Fred Flintstone.In the...
View ArticleEvidence indicates CEO never intended Castle Toward affair to be investigated
The documents For Argyll obtained from Argyll and Bute Council under Freedom of Information demonstrate the monkey business that was the Chief Executive’s request to Audit Scotland to conduct a...
View ArticleMichael Russell asserts that islands’ empowerment WILL extend to Argyll isles
In welcoming the Scottish Government’s plans to giving Scotland’s island communities greater control over their local economies, natural environment and better representation, local MSP, Michael...
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