Part 2: indicative costs for Struan Lodge
We have come to understand that the Care Inspectorate do not have prescribed staffing ratios when it comes to care homes for the elderly. As part of an individual care home’s ’Conditions of...
View ArticleUnplanned overdrafts possible as Council debits council tax today
[Updated below 14.15] We have had reports that Argyll and Bute Council has debited Council tax today – Thursday 28th April 2013 – rather than on 1st April.One resident discovered this purely by...
View ArticleCouncil minutes of Struan Lodge motion at 21 March meeting raise the most...
[Updated below 15.00 5th April] The minutes of the meeting of Argyll and Bute Council;s meeting on 21st March were finally published this morning, 4th April.The ‘Struan Lodge motion’Item 1 on the...
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Bonfire of insanities at Argyll and Bute Council: but where now?
By the end of Thurday’s meeting of Argyll and Bute Council, we had seen an orchestrated internal conflict in the SNP administration group come to a head following sudden, contradictory and politically...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: the horsetrading begins
There is a meeting being arranged for tomorrow between a curious collection of councillors:The SNP’s Sandy Taylor is rumoured to be the likely next party leader if Roddy McCuish decides to step down in...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: the serious stuff
On the agenda of tomorrow’s council meeting, 23rd May 2013, is a matter of real concern to Dunoon and part of Cowal: the future of three local primary schools: Dunoon, Kirn and St Mun’s – with pre-5...
View ArticleAlert: serious flaw in RBS one-strike system which disables services on...
A personal problem has led to the discovery of a serious flaw in the system by which the Royal Bank of Scotland manages the customer services on its accounts.My debit card – the only card I use –...
View ArticleSNP Group Leader wanted to take them straight into opposition
It transpires that Derek Mackay, Minister for Local Government in the SNP Scottish Government advised that the SNP group of councillors – elected to lead in the political management of Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleTransport Minister asked to reconvene A83 Task Force
Jane MacLeod of the Mid Argyll Chamber of Commerce and Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Argyll, is asking Transport Minister, Keith Brown, to reconvene the A83 Task Force as a matter of urgency, in the wake...
View ArticleMcGrigor repeats call for farmers and crofters to contribute to consultation...
Highlands & Islands Conservative MSP, Jamie McGrigor, has repeated his call for farmers and crofters in his region to take part in the Scottish Government’s current consultations on new Common...
View ArticleScottish Social Attitudes survey shows substantial majority for keeping the...
The 2013 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey – they call it ‘the half-time score’ - interviewed a probability sample of 1,497 adults, face to face, between 25th June and 23rd October 2013.An immediate...
View ArticleCommunity volunteers sought to spread the word on new rights to social care
[Updated 11th April] The Social Care [Self-Directed Support] [Scotland] Act 2013 came into force on 1st April 2014. The Act requires councils to offer individuals receiving social care a range of...
View ArticleWhere now for Dunoon’s town centre ferry service?
There is yet further new information to be considered now on this issue.The past week’s release by the Scottish Government, of the results of its one-to-one engagement with six potential operators of...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: Yes campaign impaled on currency
In Tuesday evening’s [5th August] debate with Alasdair Darling, Alex Salmond railed against food banks in Scotland. He denounced Westminster austerity measures, intimating that John Swinney has...
View ArticleIndy: the constitutional options of the Northern and Western Isles – and...
[Revised 11.45] In an article on this page, Andrew Argyle raises the issue of Shetland at least and possibly the Northern Isles deciding to stay in the United Kingdom in the event of a ‘Yes’ vote. His...
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Indy: NATO, oil and the Northern Isles – a once in a lifetime opportunity
[23.00 update below - this issue is moving, Guardian article this evening] Arguably the most intriguing scenario in the independence referendum lies in the far north – with Orkney and Shetland.If...
View ArticleMeeting of interested parties on A83 makes Oliver Twist move on Transport...
A meeting of parties interested in what they regard as a more permanent solution to the A83′s vulneranility to landslides, along with some local councillors and local MSP, Michael Russell, was held at...
View ArticleGalbraith fighting for restitution of local maternity scanning in Argyll and...
A weak and ill thought decision taken by NHS Highland in the wake of a single unfortunate case, has seen the cessation in Argyll and the Isles of routine maternity scanning carried out locally by the...
View ArticleAs he moves to Cabinet, former Transport Minister tells McGrigor options for...
The outgoing Scottish Transport Minister, Keith Brown – recently promoted by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment & Cities [a portfolio which includes...
View ArticleClegg dreams of threesome coalition for Westminster in the face of the...
Sky pilot Lib Dem Leader, Nick Clegg, is likely to break up on re-entry to earth’s atmosphere following the May 2015 General Election. With the party’s abject performance in the recent by election at...
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