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Legal victory by Garelochhead Minibuses and Coaches forces council to...
In a landmark ruling at the Edinburgh Court of Session, Argyll and Bute Council has been found to be in breach of the law in its conduct of tendering and contracting school transport for the...
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Western Ferries to have two new boats in service by 2013 Cowal Games
(3rd May Update below) Western Ferries has announced that it has appointed Birkenhead’s Cammell Laird shipbuilders as preferred bidder for the construction of two new ferries for its Gourock-Dunoon...
View ArticleA83 diversion route may not be quite so near readiness as Transport Minister...
Transport Minister, Keith Brown, talked yesterday, 18th February, of convoys about to start testing the new diversion route up Glen Croe, for use when the A83 suffers a landslide. He also indicated...
View Article7th May deadline for Government to identify seal-shooting salmon farms
Today’s edition of The Herald [28th April] carries an exclusive from Environment Editor Rob Edwards, reporting that Scotland’s Information Commissioner, Rosemary Agnew, has instructed the Scottish...
View ArticleSneddon at it again
[Updated below 9th January] He just can’t help it.Argyll and Bute’s Education Director, Cleland Sneddon, seems unable to play a straight bat.Just after midnight on Monday 8th December – at 00.49 on 9th...
View ArticleDefence Secretary Liam Fox messed with installation of Tornado collision...
The SNP has revealed a Freedom of Information release containing more disturbing evidence about Ministry of Defence failures in the installation of a collision warning system in RAF Tornado aircraft.Dr...
View ArticleUK response to the Russia-Crimea situation: selfies, posturing and dangerous...
When the Prime Minister of the UK tweets ‘selfies’ of himself on the phone to the President of the USA, discussing the situation in the Crimea, we have to ask what sort of a nation we have become?The...
View ArticleMoD actions BAE Systems contract for three OPVs
The United Kingdom government has actioned the contract to BAE Systems on the Clyde to build three new River class OPVs [offshore patrol vessels] for the Royal Navy.That this contract would go to BAE...
View ArticleGlobal combat ships for the Clyde
[Update note below] Two weeks ago, First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir George Zambellas, caused a right old stooshie when he was quoted as saying that the new Type 26 Frigates, the Global Combat Ships, would...
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