David MacBrayne Group says review of coastguard services should ‘save lives...
Major ferry operators, the David MacBrayne Group, know a thing or two,from long experience, about the waters of Scotland’s inshore and offshore west and north coasts.Only a month ago on 18th April,...
View ArticleDevelopers target Scottish Government as easiest route to large windfarm...
We have information that developers now see Scotland as the most profitable area for subsidy picking in wind farm proposals, with the attitude to windfarm consents and therefore to the subsidy regime...
View ArticleDisappointing stunting from Michael Russell
Local MSP Michael Russell has decided to champion a campaign in the name of the Isle of Bute community to control the Mount Stuart estate - a recently launched initiative of dubious foundation from...
View ArticleFerry operator David MacBrayne Group 2011-12 Annual Report published
In a performance that bucked the trend, the David MacBrayne Group, Scotland’s principal operator of domestic ferry services, has revealed that it paid back £5.8m to Government as a result of efficiency...
View ArticleSerco Northlink loses commercial director
Serco Northlink began operating the Northern Isles ferry services in July this year, after a legally disputed award of the contract by Transport Scotland.Within months of starting operations, it has...
View ArticleRussell hissy-fit over Stow College director rumbles on
(Updated) On Saturday 10th November The Herald captured Argyll and Bute’s MSP, Education Secretary, Michael Russell, in a fit of the screaming ab dabs, reporting that he was imperiously demanding – in...
View ArticleRussell back in the bathtub, now trying to sink Keith Brown’s boat
In his desperate struggle to recover and defend a reputation now driven to a low discount by an unable and controversial performance at Education and in the necessary decorum and fair treatment of...
View ArticleFor Argyll’s FOI shows Transport Minister misled Scottish Parliament on...
For Argyll can show, on documented evidence, that Transport Minister, Keith Brown, misled the Scottish Parliament in answers he gave on 5th September 2012 to questions on the award of the Northern...
View ArticleSerco grows business in tough times
Serco, the controversial supplier of services of all kinds to governments of all kinds, seems to have the perfect recipe for growth in these difficult economic times.Sometimes Serco’s actual...
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Does the new ticketing arrangement for Gourock-Dunoon ferries make Argyll...
The Scottish Government has just issued the following press statement on a new ticketing agreement for the Gourock-Dunoon ferry services.The statementReproduced here verbatim:‘Gourock – Dunoon ferry...
View ArticleScottish Government response to failure of Orkney ferry service exposes key...
With the Northern Isles ferry service from the Caithness mainland at Scrabster to Stromness on the island of Mainland in the Orkney Isles crippled by the terminally damaged crankshaft on the MV...
View Article2012-13 report from David MacBrayne Group
The David MacBrayne Group Ltd, the main ferry operator serving the Clyde and Hebridean routes, today [14th October 2013] published its latest annual report and accounts.Group Chair, David McGibbon...
View ArticleResponses to Scottish Government’s Information Day on potential...
The Scottish Government hosted an Information Day in Edinburgh on Friday, 18th October, targeted on private sector ferry operators potentially interested in tendering for a hybrid commercial risk /...
View Article‘Significantly more potential operators’ interested in Gourock Dunoon ferry...
It has been locally reported that, since the Scottish Government’s Information Day on 18th October, ‘Significantly more potential operators’ have expressed an interest in the proposition for a second...
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Stramash award underlines sense of company’s big investment decision
Stramash, the Argyll-born and based specialist outdoor nursery and outdoor adventure provider, has been awarded the top Rural Innovator Award in the inaugural Scottish Rural Parliament awards – of...
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