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IN Strachur’s traditional Boxing Day shinty match, the over 30s beat the under 30s.Pictured above is goalscorer Duncan McNicoll Snr (right) in action today.In Arctic conditions, and with knees as blue as their shirts, the young bucks were thrashed by 4 ...
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The staff and directors of the Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard would like to wish all our readers a merry Christmas, and offer greetings of the season to all.
"Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” (From A Miracle on 34th ...
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EDUCATION expert Keir Bloomer has been dramatically dropped from Argyll and Bute Council’s primary school closure consultations.
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Dunoon Grammar School’s pantomine opened today (Wednesday) and we caught up with some of the cast in a break from yesterday's dress rehearsal.
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In an uncharacteristically hard-hitting statement Jim Mather MSP has attacked the current consultation on school closures being progressed by Argyll and Bute Council.
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Council begins budget awareness programmeRead more http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/content/news/general/3310904...
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THE new political makeup of Argyll and Bute Council was agreed at a Kilmory meeting today (Monday).
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A COWAL Councillor became a victim of weather conditions this morning (Monday) as his car plunged into Loch Eck, near Dunoon.
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Strachur, Strone, Sandbank, Tighnabruaich and Kilmodan Primary Schools have been closed today (Monday) because of the weather conditions. Some others are expected to close at lunchtime....
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CAMPAIGNERS have introduced a new seasonal recruit in their fight to keep Strone Primary School near Dunoon from closure – and he was spotted in Blairmore this week.
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DUNOON has won a Scottish government grant to improve business development.
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COWAL was gripped by icy weather today (Monday) after yesterday’s heavy snow - with more forecast this evening.
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MEETINGS were held in Kames and Strachur last week as part of a NHS Highland consultation into out of hours medical cover in north Cowal.
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ARGYLL and Bute Council voted today (Thursday) by the narrowest of margins to go ahead with consultations to close 25 primary schools.
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ARGYLL and Bute Council lost political leadership as the SNP group dramatically left the ruling coalition over the issue of school closures.
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NEWS that the Scottish government has declared April 29 next year to be a public holiday may not be greeted with enthusiasm by Cowal parents.As the Standard reported in May, the way the school holidays fall means that Cowal schools were scheduled to be op...
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Parents from closure-threatened Argyll and Bute primary schools are to meet at 8pm on Wednesday (November 24) at Lochgilphead Community Centre to discuss the formation of a forum to fight council proposals to close 25 schools.
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Argyll and Bute Council has extended the statutory consultation period on its school closure programme from the minimum six weeks to eight weeks – but the council’s consultation timescale leaves a possibility that parents will not know if their scho...
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THE Dunoon Observer understands that a recommendation to remove Luing Primary School from Argyll and Bute Council’s list of threatened primary schools has been made by officers – but, in Cowal, Kilmodan, Strone and Toward will remain under threat.
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