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As someone who has already complained about Dunoon’s “interesting” attitude to large capital projects on this website, to read the headline today on forargyll.com regarding “competition” for funding for regeneration in Argyll between our five major towns is deeply distressing. No-one seems to be taking the council to task on this, especially those [...]
As a teenager when I heard the Sex Pistols on old analogue radio for the first time, I knew, with many of my contemporaries, that I was hearing history in the making, even out in nowhere-near-anything-north of England. That day burned bright in every teenager’s consciousness – radio had allowed us to activate in a [...]
Will both warring wings of the flightless bird that is currently the Oban Airport project decide now on their priorities? What’s important - scoring points, airing faults on both sides in public in an expensive legal battle funded by the taxpayer or retrieving what’s left of Argyll’s corporate credibility after this juvenile schoolyard brawl?
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Argyll & Bute Council have been talking up a major redevelopment of the historic waterfront of the town, and their favoured option is to demolish the pier, which is a listed structure. Particularly galling is that at a public meeting in November last year non-definitive, non-official soundings were taken over 4 possible designs for the [...]
