Argyll west coast in new Scotland-Ireland joint renewable energy study
Jim Mather, Argyll’s constituency MSP and Minister for Energy, has announced that Scotland and Ireland are collaborating to explore best use of wind, wave and tidal sources of renewable energy between...
View ArticleMajor success for Argyll as EU grants £5m for Oban’s SAMS to lead...
The European Union (EU) has granted £5m to a collaborative research project between Scotland and Ireland to develop fuel from marine biomass. The Scottish Association of Marine Sciences (SAMS), based...
View ArticleEconomic benefits of Scottish / Irish power grid underlined in EU study
The Irish-Scottish Links on Energy Study (ISLES), funded by the EU’s INTERREG IVA Programme, has found that development of an interconnected transmission network ‘within the decade’ would help drive...
View ArticleRMT and CalMac ferries staff should look at result of 2008 Rathlin Island...
Caledonian MacBrayne – CalMac – was the operator of the ferry service between Ballycastle and Rathlin Island when the contract came up for renewal and retendering in 2008.In circumstances generally...
View Article2013 World Pipe Band Championships: the finale and the Argyll band results
[Updated 19th August with results] The march past preceding the prizegiving was led in playing order, by the first six Grade 1 bands – Simon Fraser University, Inveraray & District, Field Marshal...
View ArticleInheritance, birth, blood, guilt and currency: the shaping of multiple...
Perhaps it is the issue of currency that obliquely brings into focus the implicit meaning, the as yet undefined nature of our currently joint ‘British’ identity.It’s not about flags, anthems,...
View ArticleBoyne LIVE for Helensburgh
A massive Scottish Orange Order march, with 39 bands, 3,500 marchers and around the same number of travelling supporters is to take place in Helensburgh on the 28th June, in the Order’s traditional...
View ArticleGalloway ties two mighty albatrosses to the Yes campaign
George Galloway has an ego to outstrip even Alex Salmond’s – but these days there is no comparison in the ability of each to deliver to meet a level of expectation consistent with the size of the...
View ArticleConundrums and codswallop on United Kingdom constitutional reform
Constitutional change in the United Kingdom is now inevitable. It is being driven by the pledge to devolve to Scotland powers additional to the 2012 Scotland ACt, which will come into being in 2015 and...
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