Kintyre Autumn Pairs Classic at Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club
The Kintyre Autumn Pairs Classic takes place on Saturday 12th October 2013, hosted by the Village at Machrihanish Dunes Golf ClubThe event is open to Ladies’ pairs, Mens’ pairs and Mixed pairs.It’s a...
View ArticleHot winter golf offers at Machrihanish Dunes
Whatever the winter weather does, Mach Dunes has just announced some very hot winter offers for golfers, friends and family.‘Mach Dunes’ is the local name for the marriage of the the celebrated...
View ArticleInheritance, birth, blood, guilt and currency: the shaping of multiple...
Perhaps it is the issue of currency that obliquely brings into focus the implicit meaning, the as yet undefined nature of our currently joint ‘British’ identity.It’s not about flags, anthems,...
View Article4 of the 12 Days of Christmas left for special offer at Machrihanish Dunes
For anyone who’s fed up with the wind and the rain, a break in the pampered surroundings of Machrihanish Dunes’ luxury Victorian grand hotel – or a stunning self catering cottage with all mod cons,...
View ArticleArgyll’s Friday storm experiences: batten down for tomorrow
These websites are well worth checking out to see just how hard coastal areas of Argyll were hit by the storm surges, high tides, winds and rain on Friday 3rd January.Tomorrow is promising more of the...
View ArticleWill Argyll and Bute Council change its name?
Yesterday, 13th March, the agenda for the next administration meeting, scheduled for Tuesday 18th March, was circulated to councillors.A stand-out item is the proposal that the council should change...
View ArticleTransport Minister didn’t turn up to the A83 Task Force meeting he called
The press statement issued by Transport Scotland last night, 18th March, in the immediate aftermath of a meeting in Arrochar of the A83 Task Force, brought forward by the Transport Minister himself...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Call for volunteers as HWDT launches vital new research expeditions on...
The United Kingdom’s only known resident population of killer whales is at risk of imminent extinction. Tobermory-based Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust [HWDT] has this week launched a new series of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kintyre Express in June trials of Caledonia on Campbeltown-Ballycastle route
Kintyre Express, sister company of West Coast Motors and delivering a fast passenger summer ferry service from Campbeltown to Ballycastle on Ireland’s Antrim north coast, is trialling a bigger boat on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Checking out Caledonia’s first trial passage for Kintyre Express
On Monday morning, 9th June, Campbeltown’s Kintyre Express passenger ferry company put RedBay Boats’ 16 metre to the first test of its nine day trial.Caledonia, the pilot boat version, ran the return...
View ArticleRecord entries in Kintyre Mach 1 Stages Rally: 101 teams confirmed
With only weeks left until the inaugural Mach 1 Stages rally at Machrihanish Airbase in Kintyre, its on 5th and 6th July – potential entrants had better be quick off the mark. Spaces are filling up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Draken Harald Hårfagre on passage through Argyll waters
[Position updates below] The 114ft long replica Viking longship that left Haugesund in Norway on Wednesday 2nd July, in her first year of operation, was en route for scheduled repair at Birkenhead,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two major winners last weekend: Mach 1 Stages Rally and Kintyre community
Reports coming in from a range of sources testify to on the outstanding success of the first – but not, surely, the last – Mach 1 Stages Rally held at the now community owned Machrihanish Airbase at...
View ArticleNo nationalist politicisation of the Games?
It was revealed late last night that the Ministry of Defence [MoD] had been approached with a request that the Res Arrows – who overflew Glasgow and Celtic Park in the Commonwealth Games opening...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cybernats savage Paul MacCartney for ‘Let’s stay together’ plea
[Photo update below] Given the way things are here, it was inevitable. Like JK Rowling before him, the Cybernats and IndyTrolls have lit upon musician and composer, Paul McCartney, dumping vitriolic...
View ArticleTry another vote
With voting the ‘must do’ for today, why not vote again – this time for an Argyll nomination in Bunkered Magazine’s 2014 series of Scotland’s Best Golf Resort Experience awards.The Village at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hebridean sightings leap for harbour porpoises but dive for basking sharks
Harbour porpoise sightings off Scotland’s west coast increased by 25% in 2014 compared to the previous year; while sightings of basking sharks unexpectedly fell by 33% during marine research...
View ArticleCampbeltown meetings on Ben Ghulean Community Woodland and community land...
Campbeltown sees two important and consecutive meetings this week – one on Tuesday 3rd March and one on Wednesday 4th March – both at 7pm and both in the Argyll Arms on Main Street.Each meeting relates...
View ArticleAppeal for local knowledge from Kintyre
Does anyone know how those intriguing rocks below the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse got their name?The Merchants of Three Pedlars name is the title of Eleanor Carlingford’s solo exhibition which opens at...
View ArticleAlan Reid, Jamie McGrigor and the righting of a serious wrong
On 2nd June 1994, an RAF Chinook Mk2 helicopter, ZD 576, crashed into the hillside near Argyll’s Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse, in heavy fog, at speed and at low altitude.It was carrying 25 of the leading...
View Article
