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This was Inveraray’s Dun na Quaich yesterday
For Argyll’s photographer, Rebecca Martin, took this shot in Inveraray yesterday – showing the landmark folly, Dun na Quaich, on the hilltop above the Loch Fyneside town. Yesterday’s light dusting of...
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Argyll streams to SAMS marine biology Open Day at Dunstaffnage
Who ever thought science was boring and who could have imagined the fascinations revealed yesterday (7th March) to the biggest ever audience for the Open Day at Dunstaffnage at the Scottish Association...
View ArticleThe challengers for Argyll & Bute come clean
The two very real challengers to the sitting tenant in the Argyll & Bute Westminster seat at the next General Election have been talking to For Argyll – about themselves, their politics, their...
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2009 Lochgilphead Lantern Parade
These are first shots of tonight’s magical 2009 Lochgilphead Lantern Parade.The procession was led by the Mid Argyll Pipe Band and driven from the rear by the Salsa Band. The lanterns – as you will see...
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Save Our Pool: the day Mid Argyll became a community
Very particularly this was the day Lochgilphead became a community. It moved march organiser Dave Payne, in his speech at the culmination of the rally on Front Green, to say he’d never known what...
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Clydeport: the Loch Striven campaign goes on
And For Argyll has started the year as it means to go on. The For Argyll Awards 2009 introduced two new special awards: the ‘For Argyll’ Award and the ‘Not For Argyll’ Award, given by us, respectively,...
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Loch Striven, Maersk and the media
This is something of a wake-up call. The recent press day on the raft of 6 Maersk container ships in Loch Striven was good for the company – demonstrating its genuine openness and sharing insights and...
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Maersk Mission Loch Striven 2010 meets CBBC Mission 2110
Driving down the east side of a largely frozen Loch Eck, the mooring buoys at Coylet – normally living things in a tug-of-war with the surface water, lie like litter on the ice – more jetsam than...
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Mission 2110 in progress in Loch Striven
Have you seen the fabulous Avatar? That imported, steel, high-tech universe, fuelled by violent imperial intent? The ‘outstation’, like a giant metal portacabin, plonked down and terrifyingly,...
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Transformational funding award for Auchindrain
Thirty five years ago the Trustees of Auchindrain in Mid Argyll built a Visitor Centre. This greatly improved the accessibility to the public of Scotland’s last unimproved farm township which has been...
View ArticleSnow Show for Oban FM, hero of the hour as town gets blizzarded out
On Saturday evening, while For Argyll’s guest photographer, Rebecca Martin, was stuck in her car at Rest and Be Thankful (later to be freed by a snow plough and a friendly Landrover driver with a set...
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Hay flags up Auchindrain
As Gilbert and Sullivan said: ‘Here’s a how-de-d0′. Having instructed that a specific flag ceremony at AuchindrainFarm Township in Mid Argyll should be kept private because otherwise it might wrongly...
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