2009 For Argyll Awards: get ready
This is advance warning on the award categories, timetable and procedure for this celebration of the real wealth of achievements in Argyll this year.They’re nearly upon you – and us. They’re the...
View ArticleCommunity Conference for Bute and Cowal
Residents of Bute and Cowal are invited to attend a community conference on Saturday 6th March 2010 from 10.30am to 3.45pm at Dunoon Grammar School.Funded by Working and Learning Together, the event...
View ArticleSorting Errors, Databases and Caching on ForArgyll.com
We’re moving steadily in the right direction on the issues we have been experiencing on the site.The first element of the solution has been to upgrade our servers. An overdue move for sure, but...
View ArticleThe Arbroath Schools Review: traffic risk to small children on the Westway...
The busy town bypass beside the new build school, the Westway, was a clear danger to the children and would be exceptionally difficult to be made safe for a school of 500 primary age children.The...
View ArticleFor Argyll website transfer
Our Internet Services Director is still working on the transfer of the site to a new host, in the light of poor performance following still greater traffic volumes.We hope this weekend will see the end...
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Russell launches another push on threatened Clyde and Forth coastguard...
Clyde Coastguard station, threatened with closure in 8 days time on 30th September 2011 – alongside its peer on the Forth. This is planned as part spending cuts decided by a metropolitan administration...
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Argyll First to campaign for full A83 trunking – support them and see...
This is a campaign that should unite Argyll and the Isles – led by the Argyll First group of councillors whose group and manifesto has always aimed to do just that.Councillors Donald Kelly from South...
View ArticleSpygate: Fruitlessly Trawling for Trolls
Since Spygate broke I have been examining our database for evidence that we have suffered from a council-led attempt to undermine the comment forums on this site. No such evidence is there. Either it...
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A83: Scotland Transerv bed in at Old Military Road as Task Force meets
As Cabinet Secretary Alex Neil’s Task Force on the landslide-prone A83 meets for the first time, Scotland Transerv, the action arm of Transport Scotland is today setting up shop at the entrance to the...
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ForArgyll goes transparent on traffic stats
Today we have published our vital statistics for the last two years, not just the total visitors in that time (nearly half a million) but on each and every day. The reason? Well, we felt that our...
View ArticleA82: southbound slip to Erskine Bridge closed
[Update: now cleared] The slip road from from the Southbound A82 onto the Erskine Bridge closed around 11.45 this morning [23rd December] with the recovery of a road traffic accident.This will affect...
View ArticleForArgyll.com gets speed bump
Our visitor numbers are ever-increasing. We’re now regularly topping 6,000 individual visitors per day. And because we’re topping that figure the website has had trouble coping — we’re a victim of our...
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Tarbert jam-packed as scarecrows invade Kilberry
[1st April: new photos added] A thumbnail sketch of how the Easter holiday is panning out in Argyll is roads busy with incoming traffic, Tarbert in Kintyre thronged with cars and the Kilberry peninsula...
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ForArgyll.com continues to improve its reach
Our periodic analysis of our stats shows that ForArgyll.com has increased its reach year-on-year by 30.9% or 483K to 633K visits per annum.We use the industry standard analytics service from Google,...
View ArticleThompson calls for early monitoring of Average Speed Cameras on the A9
Following a spate of serious road traffic accidents, with heart breaking fatalities, on the busy east coast A9, Transport Scotland’s ‘s prescription has been the installation of the Average Speed...
View ArticlePossible weekend flooding and traffic disruption in Kintyre and the islands
The weather forecast is for heavy rain over the Kintyre peninsula from around 10pm tonight, clearing Kintyre and moving north west to cover Islay and Jura [but not Colonsay] by 01.00 tomorrow morning,...
View ArticleSerious motorbike crash at Strone Point on Bank Holiday Sunday
Two motorbikes collided yesterday morning, 29th September, at the accident black spot of Strone Point, on the A83 north of Inveraray on the northern headland of Loch ShiraAt about 11.45, a Honda going...
View ArticleMessers Blair & Bell Consider Taking Action Against ForArgyll.com
Today ForArgyll was contacted by the Cowal Courier with the following:——————————————-“Good morning, I have tried to contact you by telephone but it has been engaged and I can’t hang around for a...
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£5m Crianlarich bypass open today
Today marks the first opportunity for users of the A82 and A85 to use the new Crianlarich Bypass – pictured above. The £5 million bypass includes the construction of a new 1.3 km stretch of the A82. It...
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Stand off at the OK A814 as Council Roads Department promise remains unfulfilled
The photographs reproduced here were taken on the A814 on the morning of 21st April.The coach in the photographs reversed down the road and after some tricky time manoeuvering into the entrance of a...
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