More support at Holyrood for Mid Argyll Pool
Update 17th November: The SNP’s Highlands Islands MSP, Dave Thompson, who had already signed Jamie McGrigor’s Pariamentary Motion, in adding his support to the motion, has issued a statement saying:...
View ArticleLatest on Mid Argyll Swimming Pool
(Updated again 15.00 3rd December) This article supplies new information and insights and covers a note on Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather’s meetings with Mid Argyll Board members and with members of Argyll...
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Join the Demo of the year for Mid Argyll Swimming Pool
This will be fun, fast and furious – and it matters. You can help it to succeed in its purpose of hammering home to Argyll & Bute Council that this facility is important to all of its community and...
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Meeting of minds on Mid Argyll Swimming Pool
Jim Mather managed the all-but-impossible, chairing last night’s meeting (15th January) on the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool. With no obvious hands on the wheel, he steered what could have been an angry...
View ArticleSo did these sharp shooters outmanoeuvre dopey Argyll in the COSLA budget...
We’ve now seen the financial figures for the local authority share out of the critical reintroduction of some old ring-fenced grants and their impact on the annual revenue grant for 2011-12 of each of...
View ArticleDick Walsh wasnae tellt how bad Argyll’s budget would be – so didnae know
Council Leader Dick Walsh has defended himself – uninterrogated (they don’t like that) – in The Buteman against The Press & Journal’s and For Argyll’s highlighting of the fact that he and his two...
View ArticleAnswers: official means of holding the council to account
For Argyll has had queries from site readers, publicly in comments on published stories and privately in direct emails, on what routes are available to bring the council to account and to bring...
View ArticleArgyll’s budget crisis: Council Leader’s defence testifies to negligence
Councillor Dick Walsh’s Leader’s Report, prepared for the meeting of the Executive Committee on Thursday 27th January 2011, says: ‘I am taking the unprecedented step of up-dating the Leaders Report on...
View ArticleCOSLA starved Argyll of funding but cries crocodile tears over Scotland’s...
The President of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), Pat Watters, today issued a pantomime statement that all of Scotland’s political parties are feeding the Scottish people political...
View ArticleOpposition Leader calls on Council to accept Government revenue settlement...
Following yesterday’s announcement by The Scottish Government of next year’s funding levels for local authorities, Robert Macintyre, SNP leader of the opposition has called on Argyll and Bute Council...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council has £12.832 million of additional revenue for 3 years...
The surplus of £4.454 that Argyll and Bute Council has declared disguises the existence of an unflagged but substantial £12,832 million of additional revenue funding over three years from 2012-13 to...
View ArticleRevelatory response from Swinney to increased borrowing powers
The Scottish Government had initially – and rightly – complained that devolution had not given it borrowing powers, pointing to a ridiculous situation where local councils had the statutory authority...
View ArticleScotland’s poor roads – is ring fencing on GAE now an issue?
Highlands & Islands Conservative MSP, Jamie McGrigor, has today highlighted constituents’ concerns about the poor condition of many local roads in the Highlands & Islands.The MSP questioned...
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