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Robbie the Pict asks Prince Charles for help – but not humbly, reminding him...
A genuine hero for our times, Robbie the Pict, who virtually single-handedly won the battle of the Skye Bridge tolls, is in action again. He is fighting to have the criminal records purged of those...
View ArticleHow many Argyll & Bute Council officers can enter your home without consent,...
This is a serious question and it is one that, to date, the Council has refused to answer. It comes in the wake of significant national concern on the growth of the number of employees of Councils and...
View ArticleMcGrigor tables parliamentary motion on Oban marina
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands and Islands MSP, today (10th September 2010) tabled a motion at the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood on the fate of Oban Bay Marine’s proposal, adopted by the Oban CHORD...
View ArticleFurther serious question on FoI document from Oban CHORD transit marina project
This relates to the document described by the Council in the release of three documents under Freedom of Information legislation (FoI) as: ‘The Financial submission submitted by AECOM for their...
View ArticleFreedom of information forces disclosure of Transport Scotland inactivity on...
Would you describe two emails in six months between Transport Scotland and the all-important European Commission as ‘continuing to work with the European Commission on that very important...
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Legal victory by Garelochhead Minibuses and Coaches forces council to...
In a landmark ruling at the Edinburgh Court of Session, Argyll and Bute Council has been found to be in breach of the law in its conduct of tendering and contracting school transport for the...
View ArticleInformation Commissioner to order government to open up on fish farm seal...
Another Rob Edwards exclusive in today’s Sunday Herald reveals that the Information Commissioner, Rosemary Agnew, is tomorrow [3rd December 2012] to rule against the Scottish Government and compel them...
View ArticleArgyll’s successful anti-wind farm campaigner making presentation to Holyrood...
Christine Metcalfe from Loch Avich, a determined and strategic campaigner against wind turbines, this year saw her pioneering use of the Aarhus Convention, to which the UK is a signatory, bring her a...
View ArticleEvidence indicates CEO never intended Castle Toward affair to be investigated
The documents For Argyll obtained from Argyll and Bute Council under Freedom of Information demonstrate the monkey business that was the Chief Executive’s request to Audit Scotland to conduct a...
View ArticleDavid Stewart’s Parliamentary question and FOI release show Transport...
Transport Minister, Keith Brown MSP, has been shown, materially and knowingly, to have misled a fellow MSP in a written answer he provided to Dave Stewart MSP on 24th January 2013 – an answer to a...
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Jamie McGrigor’s parliamentary question and FOI release reveals DFM’s misuse...
The unravelling of what is a massive and wilfully conscious waste of public money for intended political gain began with the latest in a persistent series of questions from Jamie McGrigor MSP, related...
View ArticleReach of Freedom of Information extended from Tuesday
From this Tuesday, 1st April, new legislation extends the reach of Freedom of Information requests to ‘arm’s length’ sports and cultural and recreational facilities.The new legislation reinforces the...
View ArticleThe Oban North Pier Panto: writs, gazebos, TIFs, making millions [?] and...
‘Oh no they won’t.’ ‘Oh yes they will.’Oban’s father and son businesses team of Alan and Callum McLeod have singlehandedly regenerated what had been an unattractive and prominent part of the town’s...
View ArticleSlavery today – and in Scotland
In one of the most indefensible actions, in 2012 the current UK Government amended the conditions laid down in the 1998 Overseas Domestic Workers Visa provision, a conscious reform of working...
View ArticleInformation Commissioner rules against Police Scotland on withholding...
In an incident which appears to add to the weight of indications that Police Scotland is a law unto itself, Labour candidate Gemma Doyle and local MSP Jackie Baillie have called on Police Scotland to...
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