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Scottish Citylink new direct Glasgow-Edinburgh Airport express
[Update re Edinburgh Airport below] The timetable for the new Scottish Citylink express coach service between Glasgow’s Buchanan Street bus station and Edinburgh Airport is now published here on the...
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Campbeltown Picture House appoints design team
Campbeltown Community Business announced this week that it has appointed an award winning design team to assist with the preparation of the second round of the Heritage Lottery bid for funding for the...
View ArticleIf the union is lost, it has not deserved to live
If the Yes campaign for Scottish Independence emerges the winner on 18th September this year and the union is lost, it will have died as any species dies – from inability to adapt to change.Complacency...
View ArticleProblems with both pro-indy and pro-union campaigns
The last few days have produced a distillation of what is wrong with each of the campaigns contesting the future of Scotland.The pro-indy Achilles-heelThe First Minister’s address to the party faithful...
View ArticleThirst for change must be given room to drive the fight to the death for the...
In recent days the major UK political parties have been tripping over themselves to counter-offer on the inducements the SNP have been offering voters from the very start of the indy campaign.Chief...
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Murphy’s Irn Bru tour for the Union
A couple of Irn Bru crates to stand on [sometimes]. A mic [occasionally]. ‘Yes’ hecklers [always]. Humour and hard facts [a constant]. And the potential spoiler to end all spoilers – Oban’s seagull...
View ArticleMichael Russell’s message to Argyll
No longer in government following today’s reshuffle by new First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, Michael Russell, Argyll & Bute’s MSP, sends this message of his commitment to the constituency.He says:...
View ArticleJim Murphy’s dilemmas
The new leader of Scottish Labour, Jim Murphy, currently MP for East Renfrewshire [formerly Eastwood], has said that he aims to be an MSP by 2016 and will explain that in more detail in the New Year....
View ArticleToo green to stand – no General Election candidate for Argyll and Bute
Was there ever a party so supine, so voluntarily subservient, so thoughtlessly self mutilating as what one can only call ‘the wilting Greens’?The Scottish Greens were consistent supporters of Scottish...
View ArticleUK government proposal on English question makes rewind of devolution an issue
It’s hard not to despair at the extent to which governments of so many persuasions lag a long way behind the direction of the electorate.The United Kingdom is more than open to being excited by the...
View ArticleSNP Game of Thrones could save the union
Amongst those wishing to see the survival of the United Kingdom, the assumption is that the SNP’s anticipated JCB bucket-scoop of Scottish seats in the UK General Election in May can only signal an...
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New Director for SAMS: Professor Nicholas Owen
The Scottish Association for Marine Science [SAMS], based at Dunstaffnage on the approaches to Oban, has gone from sadness and a profound sense of loss from the sudden death in August 2014 of their...
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