Investment in people and place: the Kintyre Club and the Village at Mach Dunes
Presentations of one kind of investment in Kintyre communities took place yesterday afternoon, 2th July, at the Ugadale Hotel in Machrihanish, part of Southworth Developments’ breathtakingly vast...
View ArticleLooking at Dunoon: where next?
We’ve looked at the good, the bad and the downright ugly in Dunoon – and there are plenty of all of them.The question is what the town can do with itself as it stands on the edge of being...
View ArticleColonsay looks to buy out its hotel and pub
After a prolonged period of ‘now it’s open, now it’s not’ – including three months when the community stepped in to rent and run it, the Colonsay Hotel is for sale, with the island’s community...
View ArticleBBC ALBA’s ‘From Harris with love’– putting us through the wringer
Called ‘A chronicle of life in a unique island community’, BBC ALBA’s upcoming Chì Mì’n Tìr / From Harris with Love airs on Monday 16th September for a scant 30 minutes – 20.30-21.00. The good news is...
View ArticleMcGrigor calls on consumers to choose mackerel source carefully
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands Conservative MSP and the Scottish Conservative Fisheries Spokesman, has repeated his call for Scottish consumers to be careful in choosing Scottish and EU-caught...
View ArticleSustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust calls for more ambition in management of...
Pointing to the fact that the existing system of Inshore Fishery Groups in Scotland is massively under-resourced compared to the parallel system in England, the Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust...
View ArticleInvest in Mull: community share offer to raise £1m to generate 1100 MWh pa...
Green Energy Mull, a newly formed Community Benefit Society. went public yesterday, 8th November, on Garmony Hydro, an inspirational development scheme.Green Energy Mull is born of an initiative by...
View ArticleOpen Day at Cairndow’s Here We Are
The unique Here We Are at Cairndow is so ‘here’ that it hardly needs its name to announce it these daya. It is not only ‘here’ but everything it has done and is doing, with its characteristic...
View ArticleKey battle for rural schools is on
Tuesday 21st January’s session of the Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee was fascinating as much for what was below the surface as for what was said.The event was the committee stage of the...
View ArticleNIESR paper looks at the fiscal challenges and opportunities for an...
The independent National Institute of Economic and Social Research has just produced a series of six research papers looking at aspects of the fiscal challenges and opportunities for an independent...
View ArticleRSPB Scotland calls for a new independent body to regulate the open cast coal...
RSPB Scotland is this week calling for the creation of a new, independent body to ensure that the open cast coal industry in Scotland is properly regulated in future.This move comes after the...
View ArticleStuart Owen
Stuart Owen, the successful and committed manager of Mid Argyll Community Pool in Lochgilphead, collapsed suddenly and later died on Saturday morning while – typically – contributing to the Lochgair...
View ArticleHistoric Scotland gives Auchindrain two years to prove itself
With the Auchindrain farm township, south of Inveraray, known last summer [2013] to have hit the buffers in its attempt to keep alive what is, in its entirety, a unique historic artefact testifying to...
View ArticleAfter 14 years Tiree will have a Community Council but can it speak with one...
And no, the Tiree Community Council has not resigned in its entirety to bring about this situation. They’ve just not needed to have a Community Council for fourteen years.The islanders’ habit of...
View ArticleArthur Blue: An energy island
I was in Denmark recently, enjoying herring on rye bread, blethering with old friends and brushing up my rusty Danish.Economists of the Anglo-American persuasion are convinced that the Danish economy...
View ArticleA rock and a hard place for Scottish Government on post-indy UK renewables...
[Updated below 7th July] It’s not hard to see why the No Tiree Array campaigners saw off Scottish Power Renewables [SPR] and the Scottish Government on the favoured proposal to lassoo the tiny Atlantic...
View ArticleLuss Estates supports three community renewables projects
Luss Estates, which owns around 45,000 acres to the west of Loch Lomond, is supporting plans by three local development trusts to create renewable energy projects which will generate significant sums...
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 ArticleAuchindrain hosting Social Investment Scotland workshop
A forward diary note for 29th September is the Auchindrain Trust’s hosting of a free workshop by Social Investment Scotland for local third sector organisations.Social Investment Scotland [SIS] is a...
View ArticleInsights from Andrew Neil’s look at the impact of independence on the rest of...
Last night’s BBC 2 programme [12th August] presented by Andrew Neil – Scotland Votes: What’s at stake for the UK?, looked at the impact of Scottish independence on the nature, standing and...
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