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• A815 CLOSED AT WHISTLEFIELD

  Created: Monday, 08 March 2010 16:19 Author: Gordon

  posted Monday. 4.23pm Strathclyde police advise that the A815 Dunoon to Cairndow road has been closed following a serious accident at Whistlefield. Alternative routes are via Ardentinny, or Glen Lean. Police advise that the road will be closed for some...

• ARGYLL TEACHERS MARCH IN GLASGOW

  Created: Saturday, 06 March 2010 19:18 Author: Gordon Neish

  OVER 8,000 teachers and parents from all over Scotland marched in Glasgow today (Saturday) in protest at education cuts being imposed by councils. A healthy Argyll and Bute turnout marched in the knowledge that 30 teachers jobs are set to go in the region...

• INVERARAY PARKING CHARGES – OBJECTIONS MUST BE IN BY THIS FRIDAY

  Created: Monday, 22 February 2010 10:37 Author: Colin Cameron

  posted Monday February 22, 10.35am Inveraray people have reacted with anger and frustration as Argyll and Bute council announced plans which could mean year-round parking charges in the Royal Burgh, with Luss on Loch Lomond-side facing the same fate.Loca...

• A816 CRASH CYCLIST HOSPITALISED

  Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 14:23 Author: Gordon Neish

  A cyclist is in a serious condition in Glasgow’s Soutern General Hospital after being hit by a car on the A816 near Lochgilphead.The 41-year-old man was struck by a Vauxhall Corsa on the northbound A816, one mile north of Lochgilphead, at about 9.10pm o...

• ARGYLL AND BUTE BUDGET

  Created: Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:13 Author: Gordon Neish

  posted Thursday, February 11; 5.14pm Argyll and Bute Council has isued a press release concerning today’s budget announcement. which is reproduced blow.A detailed analysis of the budget will follow shortly – after we have had time to analyse the figu...

• NEW STRACHUR PAVEMENT - AT LAST

  Created: Monday, 08 February 2010 19:57 Author: Gordon Neish

  Posted at 8pm, Monday February 8 AFTER a long wait, Strachur residents will soon have a footpath linking Forest View and the main A815 road - making the walk to school safer for children - and a pavement from the end of Forest View to the new shinty park...

• CALMAC FERRY COLLIDES WITH PIER

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2010 14:04 Author: Gordon

  At 9.40am today (Saturday) Clyde Coastguard received a report from Caledonian MacBrayne ferries stating that the MV Isle of Arran had been in collision with the pier at Kennacraig, West Loch Tarbert in Argyll.The ferry was carrying 14 passengers, two co...

• KILFINAN FOREST DREAM NEARS REALITY

  Created: Friday, 05 February 2010 10:07 Author: Colin Cameron

  The rural community of Kilfinan parish has ambitious plans to revitalise its fortunes in a way which might well point the road ahead for many other villages and towns up and down the west coast of Scotland.     ...

• OPINION – ONLINE PUBLIC NOTICES

  Created: Thursday, 04 February 2010 16:26 Author: Gordon Neish

  MSPs voted by 76 votes to 48 last Friday for the Scottish government to abandon plans for public notices carried in newspapers to be displayed online.At first glance this would seem an easy way for cash-strapped councils to save some money. Argyll and But...

• £30m SEWERAGE WORKS START IN DUNOON

  Created: Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:02 Author: Gordon Neish

  THE DIGGERS arrived at Dunoon’s West Bay this week as Scottish Water started preparatory work on its Dunoon waste water plant.The first, and largest, of a series of seven pumping stations is to be constructed beside the Glenmorag toilet building, with t...

• DUNOON BURGH HALL – help from an apprentice

  Created: Friday, 22 January 2010 09:16 Author: Aileen MacNicol

    As Dunoon's Burgh Hall gears up for next Saturday’s public meeting, where the latest plans for its exciting future will be unveiled, the team behind the hall is excited to be welcoming some very special guests.Tim Campbell, who won the first ‘Ap...

• JOB CUTS AT GTi

  Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 09:54 Author: Aileen MacNicol

  Local company GTi has confirmed that a number of jobs will be cut at its Sandbank operation. ...

• UFOs SPOTTED OVER COWAL

  Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 09:50 Author: Gordon Neish

    FOR some time now Bathgate has been known as the UFO capital of Scotland – is Dunoon now taking over this mantle?After a report in last week’s Standard of strange lights in the sky seen from Ardentinny on January 1 a number of people have report...

• Ferry Bids Invited

  Created: Thursday, 07 January 2010 16:46 Author: Colin Cameron

  THE Scottish government has published a notice inviting ferry operators to tender for the Gourock-Dunoon service, with a subsidy available only for carrying passengers.The tender process follows an investigation by the European Commission into the state s...

• SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT SET TO ALLOW ONLINE-ONLY COUNCIL ADS

  Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 11:50 Author: Gordon Neish

  Similar proposal reversed in England in Wales THE SCOTTISH government has announced an eight-week consultation which could allow councils to advertise public notices online rather than in local  and national newspapers.This would mean that people who do...

• STRACHUR BOXING DAY SHINTY

  Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 11:07 Author: Gordon Neish

  YOUNG GUNS TRIUMPH IN NIALL CAMPBELL MEMORIAL MATCHStrachur Over 30s 1, Strachur Under 30s 2THE annual Boxing Day fixture at Strachur produced yet another enthralling encounter on a frozen pitch more suited to ice-skating than shinty.The youngsters were...

• CASTLE TOWARD SELL-OFF THREAT

  Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 10:50 Author: Aileen MacNicol

  “It means so much to so many - please save it” ARGYLL and Bute Council has confirmed that it is considering the sale of all or parts of Castle Toward.The centre, which has provided arts, drama and outdoor activities for an estimated 500,000 young p...

• Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

  Created: Wednesday, 23 December 2009 12:44 Author: Gordon Neish

  'Twas the nightmare before Christmas… Sunday saw heavy snow throughout the district and Monday morning saw the first serious wintry weather of the season – and a miserable commute for those not yet on holiday. ...

• Cowal Hospice – NHS HIGHLAND SPEAK OUT

  Created: Wednesday, 23 December 2009 12:27 Author: Gordon Neish

  VIV Smith, Cowal and Bute Locality Manager for NHS Highland, spoke to the Dunoon Observer on Monday about the ongoing closure of Cowal Hospice. ...

• School merger slammed

  Created: Friday, 18 December 2009 11:08 Author: Gordon Neish

  A CAMPBELTOWN councillor has criticised plans to merge Dunoon’s three primary schools into one campus before building a new Campbeltown Grammar School. ...