Revised plans announced for new Kintyre creamery
First Milk and the Scottish Government have together announced a revised plan for a new creamery in Kintyre.Following extensive discussions between them, a brand new cheese-making facility will be...
View ArticleCrinan Classic Boat Festival to take a sabbatical in 2012
It has to be a confident event that chooses to take a sabbatical and the glorious Crinan Classic Boat Festival – with five years of success and an entry and an audience that together have built...
View ArticleAppeal upholds council decision to reject wind farm at Kilchattan on Mull of...
The appeal following Argyll and Bute Council’s decision to reject an application for a wind farm at Kilchattan, at Todd Hill, near Southend on the Mull of Kintyre has concluded and reported.The...
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Kintyre Express collects third – and 75th – Redbay Stormforce 11
Joining the Kintyre Express team in Campbeltown yesterday, crossing the North Channel to pick up their third fast passenger ferry, brought an unexpectedly bright day. You could call it ‘RedBay...
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2012 Scottish Islands Peaks Race Oban to Troon – just finished
The mighty challenge of the Scottish Islands’ Peaks Race was all over Oban on Friday (18th May).The moorings at Oban Sailing Club were swollen by just short of 50 boats in a huge fleet for the 2012...
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Brave: Scottish tourism development strategy
VisitScotland has put £7 million into the promotion of Scotland on the back of the Disney/Pixar animation, Brave. It has done so in the hope that the film becomes a cult success and that its...
View ArticleMachrihanish Dunes offers fabulous ‘Stay and Play’ for groups and societies
Groups of golfing enthusiasts will be teeing up for Kintyre at the news coming out of the Machrihanish Dunes group.A cluster of local high-end sporting, accommodation and transport businesses have got...
View ArticleNew boat and increased demand for charters at Kintyre Express
Due in Mid August, the second new boat this season for Campbeltown-based Kintyre Express will nevertheless be named KE1. She will replace the first boat in the fleet of three, leaving them all under 18...
View ArticleJura’s search for an island doctor to be on BBC lunchtime news
The determined islanders of Jura are campaigning hard to recruit a doctor for their island practice.Their greatest score to date is about to hit the television screens – on the Scottish section of the...
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MOKBIKE 2012 ramps up the rides to The Ultimate
Following last year’s successful inaugural event, MOKBIKE (Mull of Kintyre Bike) is adding new rides to the menu from family rides to testosterone-charged challenges.Sunday 14th October 2012 is the...
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Campbeltown lifeboat launches to distressed yacht off the mull
Yes, there are something like two geographical conundrums here – but on Sunday 19th August Schiehallion was NW of the Mull of Kintyre and required the assistance of the Campbeltown lifeboat.At 13.45 on...
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Haydn Chambers: South Africa’s Wayne Soutter conquering the North Channel
This is one of the advantages of being a skipper with Kintyre Express. Haydn Chambers had immediate access to the progress of the first man to swim the notorious North Channel between south Kintyre and...
View ArticleWitty and clever promotion from Machrihanish Dunes
The latest promotional news from the Machrihanish Dunes team is clever, fun, contextualised, utterly memorable and is a major prompt for marketing Campbeltown.Headlined ‘Choice Kintyre Holiday’, the...
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Kyles Too escorted to safety by Campbeltown lifeboat
This should not be read as any sort of prediction on the result of tomorrow’s all-Argyll Camanachd Cup shinty final at Oban’s Mossfield Park between Kyles Athletic and Inveraray. Argyll has everything...
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Oil exploration opportunities for Scotland off Kintyre and Islay?
Providence Resources Plc, an Irish based oil and gas exploration company, holds a 100% interest in six offshore oil exploration blocks in the Rathlin Basin [P1885] and one onshore licence [PL5/10] on...
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Ayrshire Cattle Society of GB and Ireland brings 2013 Conference to Campbeltown
The Ayrshire Cattle Society of Great Britain & Ireland is bringing its 2013 Conference to Campbeltown from 16th to 18th May.It is clear from the programme that a major part of the national...
View ArticleNever let bureaucrats near anything that requires imagination: voting opens...
Voting on the shortlist to name the world’s second sea going hybrid ferry opens on Friday 1st March and closes on Sunday 31st March 2013.The first of this breed of ferry has gone into service on the...
View ArticleKintyre suffering badly from impact of snow and high winds
See 25th March reports here.[Updated below - 24th March] 5,000 folk in Kintyre have been without power now for two days. The A83 has been closed since yesterday morning with weather-related driving...
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Kenny Campbell wins 2013 MOKRun Half Marathon
[Updated 28th May with photo of Saturday's kids' runs.] In a time of 1.16.11, Kenny Campbell of Campbeltown – above, yards from the line – took the Mens’ Half Marathon at MOKRun [Mull of Kintyre Run]...
View ArticleHolyrood Public Petitions Committee progresses Argyll First’s A83 petition
Petition PE1428 was submitted to the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee on 22March 2012 by Councillor Douglas Philand, on behalf of Argyll First, on improvements for the A83.It has been...
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