Bid for an Argyll share of the £60million budget allocation to regenerate...
During the inter-party negotiations leading up to the recent passing of the Scottish Government’s budget, the Scottish Conservatives won £234million of concessions. Among this figure is £60million set...
View ArticleCouncil success in £300,000 each for Bowmore and Dunoon town centres
Town centres in Islay’s Bowmore and Cowal’s Dunoon are to receive an equal share of £600,000 awarded today to Argyll and Bute Council from the second tranche of the Scottish Government’s £60 million...
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Job advertised for heart of Dunoon Burgh Hall regeneration
Alongside the town centre renewal initiative for Dunoon, the restoration of the town’s Burgh Hall, lying unused and deteriorating for 25 years, is a thrilling opportunity for the regeneration – the...
View Article6 week zero tolerance pilot on knife carrying
As part of action to make Scotland’s town and city centres safer places, the Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC has announced a zero tolerance crackdown on knife carrying over the next six weeks. From...
View ArticleScottish Government right in tax hit on empty properties
The Scottish Government is taking a lot of flak over its proposed tax hike on empty properties, with cries from the business community of the need not to hit but to shelter businesses.This is wrong...
View ArticleDeputy First Minister in Dunoon meeting Gourock Ferries Action Group
Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is in Dunoon today, meeting with the Dunoon Gourock Ferries Action Group to discuss the draft feasibilty study on a return of a vehicle and passenger ferry...
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Dunoon-Gourock Ferry Action Group public meeting
On Thursday night, 11th July, the Dunoon-Gourock Ferry Action Group held a public meeting in the Queen’s Hall in Dunoon. The agenda focused on the recently published report on the feasibility of a...
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Western Ferries’ Sound of Soay launched, Sound of Seil due Thursday
It’s not only royal progeny being launched this week. Argyll’s Western Ferries saw the first of its two new ferries for the Dunoon-Gourock route, MV Sound of Soay, launched yesterday, Monday 22nd July,...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council behind the times on large stores
Just as Argyll and Bute Council steps out with plans to seek out the means and the places to accommodate large stores, the same stores have admitted that they are losing customers.People are getting...
View ArticleTransport Scotland running pre-tender Information Day for Gourock-Dunoon...
This Friday, 18th October, at Transport Scotland’s Victoria Quay offices in Edinburgh, the Scottish Government is hosting an Information Day for potential operators of a vehicle and passenger ferry...
View ArticleTransport Minister signals answer to Dunoon-Gourock passenger service
Transport Minister, Keith Brown, appeared today to signal the solution to a reliable passenger service between Dunoon and Gourock.The Minister was in Galloway, performing the official launch of the...
View ArticleCoruisk fails the weather test along with the ‘bathtub boats’
Argyll Ferries passenger ferry service between Gourock and Dunoon is currently suspended, with a Review at 5pm – when the winds are supposed to be even stronger.This sees MV Coruisk, which was added as...
View ArticleAs Coruisk fails to add reliabiity to Gourock-Dunoon route, was DFM playing a...
The addition of MV Coruisk to the two-boat Argyll Ferries fleet on the passenger ferry service between the town centre ferry terminals of Gourock and Dunoon, has failed to deliver what she was leased...
View ArticleDFM delaying Gourock Dunoon ferry decision for political advantage?
Highlands and Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor, put down another written parliamentary question in pursuit of information on the decision of the Deputy First Minister [DFM], Nicola Sturgeon on any changes...
View ArticleDavid Stewart’s Parliamentary question and FOI release show Transport...
Transport Minister, Keith Brown MSP, has been shown, materially and knowingly, to have misled a fellow MSP in a written answer he provided to Dave Stewart MSP on 24th January 2013 – an answer to a...
View ArticleMore PQs on Gourock-Dunoon ferry: blushes for MSP who hadn’t done his homework
MSP’s can be and are fed parliamentary questions by interested parties in their constituencies.Clued-up and responsible MSPs will make sure that they either already know – or work to know, the ins and...
View ArticleDeputy First Minister to meet Dunoon Ferry Action Group this month
[13.00 Update below with information from Transport Scotland] At last night’s, 10th June, BIDS meeting in Dunoon, Council Leader Dick Walsh announced that the Deputy First Minister is holding a meeting...
View ArticleQuestion on inconsistent compensation for service disruption highlights...
Jamie McGrigor MSP recently raised the issue of the odd disparity in the disruption compensation offered by CalMac to vehicle users of the vehicle and passenger ferry service between Ullapool and...
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