Pragmatism rules: state of play on issue of new alcohol licences in Argyll
Last weekend’s papers were full of alarmist stories about the nation’s pubs and off-licences being shorn of alcohol licences as struggling local authorities slowly sank under the burden of...
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Mark Carter’s campaign to stop seal shootings includes letter to Queen
Lord Privy Seal? Actually the tireless Mark Carter, as well as exchanging letters with Buck House, has done the same with the UK Department for Rural Affairs (DEfRA) and with Government Ministers and...
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IslayFisher fishes the Kilmelford Hill Lochs
Brian Turner (of the IslayFisher website) and Jim Campbell made the journey through from the Borders to Kilmelford in Mid-Argyll last week.They were here for three days in ‘mixed’ weather conditions...
View ArticleAbout time: Crown Estate role in Scotland under review
Richard Lochhead MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, has been in discussion with Michael Moore MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, about the accountability of the Crown...
View ArticleOfcom: no mobile phone licence for boat based station connection
Ofcom has today (19th November 2010) published proposals to allow the use of mobile phones, connected via mobile base stations on boats, without the need for a licence.This implements a European...
View ArticleCrown Estate Commissioners overreach themselves at Skye
The Crown Estate Commissioners have licensed Bristol-based Marine Current Turbines Ltd to install a 4-turbine 40 million tidal energy farm at Kyle Rhea in the Sound of Sleat between Skye and the...
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Does Crown Estate lack rights to ‘Mines Royal’ on which Commissioners exact...
Thanks to an assiduous researcher with a serious personal interest in river gold, there are now very real questions to be asked on the matter of exactly what rights the Crown Estate does and does not...
View ArticleKilcreggan Ferry: Inverclyde Now reports ‘new’ boat may not be ready by 1st...
If ever there was an inauspicious date for the start of a controversial replacement service on a necessary route, it is this one.After all of the shenanigans and manoeuverings by SPT and Clydelink, the...
View ArticleScrapping metal theft: Justice Secretary’s steely measures against the rip...
Scores of scrap metal dealers will be subject to licensing regulations under tough new measures to clamp down on metal thieves.Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, made the announcement today as he...
View ArticleEwan Kennedy: Regulation of fish farms and sympathy for council planners
Those of us actively involved in the saveseilsound Campaign Group have found that trying to come to grips with the present system for the regulation of industrial fish farms is a bit like trying to...
View ArticleNew SNP group leader unable to keep the sheep in the pen
Now on its third leader in a year, the SNP group of councillors’ latest incumbent with the velcro-backed stripe on his sleeve, rookie Councillor Sandy Taylor, has just seen two sheep leave the...
View ArticleStory of extraordinary way EU prevented eurozone meltdown in 2011 and 2012
It is still as likely as not that this meltdown will come because little has really changed in the fiscal position of the EU’s cluster of crisis-ridden member states.However, we now know the substance...
View ArticlePatients’ bodies now graffiti sites for alpha male surgeons
A consultant surgeon at Birmingham University Hospital has been suspended pending an internal hospital investigation of misconduct.Colleagues said to be conducting a routine inspection of a...
View ArticleDonors, public money and funding the independence referendum campaigns
Alastair Darling, frontman for the supposedly pro-union campaign that is, in every way, better described as the ‘No’ campaign, has been vociferous in recent days on the subject of the funding of the...
View ArticleRussell to ask Marine Scotland to accelerate SSE replacement of power cable...
With the subsea power cable to Jura out of action now for six months, the islands of Islay, Jura and Colonsay have been dependent upon emergency power generation for that full period.The diesel standby...
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