Audit Scotland response on failure to engage in Rothesay Joint Campus situation
For Argyll asked Audit Scotland for an indication of its thinking in refusing to engage with the group of parents who wrote to the commission, asking it to intervene in the serious situation obtaining...
View ArticleThuggish Yes campaign benefits from media’s artificial ‘balance’ as Murphy...
The national media, whether by intimidation or endemic fearfulness, has presented a dangerously distorted view of the campaigns contesting the Scottish Independence referendum. They impose a wholly...
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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 ArticleSNP irresponsibly fuelling dangerous inflammation when Scotland needs calm
This morning at 10.40, a Saturday and one day after Scotland was shown to have expressed an unequivocal decision to remain within the United Kingdom, the SNP media team sent out a press release...
View ArticleTatterdemalion Named Person provision in Children and Young People [Scotland]...
The Scottish Goverment’s provision of state guardians for every child from birth to 18 – euphemistically known as ‘Named Persons’ - in the recent Children and Young People [Scotland] Act 2014 – is a...
View ArticleIf you agree Tony Blair should not have been given the Save The Children...
… please sign the petition linked below. It already has almost 100,000 signatures [99,150]. It needs a signature from everyone who feels that this award is an affront to the memory of children whom Mr...
View ArticleCrown Office sets our social media prosecution policy
In the run up to the Independence Referendum, with a variety of abuses taking place on social media, principally on Twitter, causing concern about the legality of some such behaviours, the Lord...
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Welcome to Argyll’s Loch Litter-side and to Loch Litter and the Tossers...
A resident of Argyll has drawn our attention to a growing litter problem on the A82 along Loch Lomond-side in Argyll, in the hope that the responsible authorities – either or both of Argyll and Bute...
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The real ‘relationship difficulties’ at the heart of Argyll’s dysfunctional...
At every point where anyone has raised the issue of the continuing dysfunctionality of Argyll and Bute’s Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP], funded by the Scottish Government to the tune of £1.2...
View ArticleMore trouble as ADP orders handover of personal details of service users
Argyll and Bute’s Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP] is trying to force the pace to install in six weeks the single contractor they have appointed in a controversial process to deliver all addiction...
View ArticleIs Audit Scotland taking the low road on investigating Argyll’s ADP?
Taking the line of least resistance, Audit Scotland simultaneously gives hope and takes it from many of those local service providers abused and the vulnerable service users under-served by Argyll and...
View ArticleWhere is there reason for 3rd Sector partners to trust the Alcohol & Drugs...
There has just been yet another systemically critical report on Argyll & Bute’s Alcohol & Drugs Partnership [ADP]from a commissioned consultant, Bill Breckenridge. He was brought in to...
View ArticleSNP candidate for Argyll & Bute in major own goal?
The SNP’s candidate for Argyll and Bute, Brendan O’Hara from Helensburgh, said in his address to SNP party members during his successful fight for selection to represent his party in the contest for...
View ArticleState Guardians / Named Persons a situation out of control
An Aberdeen parent yesterday, 26th March 2015, reported here an experience of her 13 year old daughter, now an S1 pupil at a school in the city.The girl was taken out of her class for ‘an appointment...
View ArticleGovernment prepared to invest in Campbeltown Creamery – but what about action...
In welcome news for Argyll’s struggling dairy industry, the Scottish Government stands ready to invest in Campbeltown Creamery. This has been confirmed by Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead.The...
View ArticleWhat’s the fuss about Zero Hours contracts?
Once the UK Government made illegal Zero Hours contracts which precluded people from taking other work, Zero Hours contacts became no more than ‘temping’ – without the cost of paying an agency...
View ArticleWill Council’s Planning Committee finally take action against Helensburgh...
In what will be a test of Argyll and Bute Council’s will to uphold the authority of law, this morning, 14th April, David Adams, Helensburgh Community Woodland Group [HCWG] Convenor, personally handed...
View ArticleDead in the water: Oban transit marina
This morning, 15th April, saw the dead end of eight years of dedicated effort by a team that have taken all sorts of abuse and misrepresentation on the chin in order to remain faithful to the trust of...
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Novel skillset discovered in Argyll and Bute Council Planning Committee
The rest of us might look at piles of miscellaneous debris lying together in the same location and be unable to distinguish between them.But Argyll and Bute Council’s Planning Committee can – without...
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SNP shuts down local branch Twitter proving witch hunt against Carmichael
An SNP branch Twitter account has been abruptly shut down with no explanation.This site carried communication demonstrating the existence of a vicious organised witch hunt against the local Orkney and...
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