2 more shouts for Oban lifeboat: 4 in 39 hours
With two recent shouts already behind her, the Oban lifeboat, Mora Edith Macdonald, launched again this morning – in the small hours, at 00.51 hours. The launch was in response to a report from the...
View ArticleThe Buteman and the Bute FM schism
There has been much media fascination recently on the subject of the internal combustion at community radio station, Bute FM.Whatever the ins and outs of the situation, it seems to focus on a core...
View Article19th Argyll Cub Scouts need a leader
Since it’s relaunch 18 months ago, the 19th Argyll Cub Scouts have gone from strength to strength and regularly attract 20 Cubs to their Tuesday evening meetings. Recently 2 Cubs have successfully...
View ArticleGeorge Berry saga moves from toxic to evil
George Berry, the popular volunteer presenter at community radio station, Oban FM, in its now former Sunday Morning with George Berry show, was, as we published last week, forced out of this job. This...
View ArticleBogus charity collector warning from Dunoon Burgh Hall
On the morning of Tuesday 8th November 2011 one of the volunteers at Diunoon’s Burgh Hall came across a young man collecting door-to-door in the town - with a stolen Burgh Hall Collection can.Ann...
View ArticleOban lifeboat out in storm force 9-11 winds
This is what lifeboat crews have to do.In one of the worst storms the Scotland and the west has had for 10 years, Oban lifeboat crew responded extremely quickly to their pagers at 16.59 this evening –...
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Mull Eagles fund Mull and Morven Agricultural show’s new Highland cattle pens
The Mull and Morven Agricultural Show has been able to buy new cattle pens and hurdles for its Highland cattle – thanks to grants of £250 from the Sea Eagle Partnership and £220 from Mull...
View ArticleArgyll volunteer in Mombasa needs cotton handkerchiefs for orphanage
Lisa Masters from Furnace in Argyll is currently working for two months as a volunteer at an orphanage in Mombasa in Kenya.The orphanage has 50 children, aged between 5 and 18.Every single one of them...
View Article10th anniversary AGM for Argyll and Bute Citizens Advice Bureau
Argyll and Bute Citizens Advice Bureau is to celebrate its 10th anniversary at its AGM on Friday 12th October 2012 at 11:30 in the Council Chamber at Kilmory on the fringe of Lochgilphead.Everyone...
View ArticleMSP supports drive to recruit ‘citizen archaeologists’
Talk about good timing. Today the academic archaeologists and scientists of Leicester University drove sky high the attraction of this particular science by revealing that the skeleton they unearthed...
View ArticleHelp marine charity volunteer to clean up Inveraray’s two beaches
Photographer Richard Hunt-Smith – who knows Inveraray and its beaches well from the far side of a lens, is about to get down and dirty to clean them up.He’ll be havoing a long exposure to Newtown Bay...
View Articleiomart brings basketball coaching from the cloud to Lochgoilhead
They either grow ‘em tall in Lochgoilhead or they’re planning to. The Argyll community of Lochgoilhead has launched its first basketball coaching programme for local children thanks to Glasgow cloud...
View ArticleNational Trust award for Helensbugh volunteer
A volunteer who has dedicated three decades to supporting the work of the National Trust for Scotland will receive a special award from the charity.Nancy Craig from Helensburgh will receive a...
View ArticleRenewed funding support for volunteer Scottish shark tagging project
The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network [SSACN] are delighted to announce that they have received funding support for the next three years from Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the Heritage...
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Tobermory Lifeboat crew commended for 31 hour shout to grounded cargo ship
Tobermory RNLI’s volunteer crew have been commended for their ‘commitment, perseverance and professionalism’ in carrying out a marathon 31 hour rescue mission to a cargo ship – the MV Fri Ocean –...
View ArticleFor Argyll 2013 tributes: to the awarded
This reminds us of the enterprises whose competitive success has been recognised in a variety of awards and nominations in 2013 – and the spectrum of businesses involved, from transport to eating out,...
View ArticleDunoon Burgh Hall: Pondlife McGurk on 21st and YouthSTUFF back on 27th February
The Catherine Wheels Theatre Company is presenting the gloriously named ‘Ballad of Pondlife McGurk’ at Dunoon Burgh Hall on Friday 21st February at 1.30pm.This is suitable for Primary 5 – 7 and S1...
View ArticleLoch Awe Lochwatch starts search today for boat that lost four lives
Today, 15th March 2014, the volunteer Lochwatch safety patrol boat on Loch Awe starts a search for the boat concerned in the tragic loss of four lives on the loch almost five years ago.In the small...
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New volunteer group, Helensburgh & Lomond Autism/Aspergers Society, takes the...
Helensburgh & Lomond Autism/Aspergers Society was formed around 6 months ago, initially through Facebook, when parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders [ASD] recognised that there was no...
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Champagne farewell to Tobermory lifeboat ‘s retiring shop manager
Tobermory Lifeboat station sent its shop manager, Eilidh Wilshire,into retirement with a champagne reception and presentation at the station.Elidh’s family has a committed relationship with Mull’s...
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