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400 Rosneath residents protest in person on Kilcreggan Pier on SPT ferry plans
Over 400 residents from the Rosneath Peninsula gathered at Kilcreggan Pier on the Clyde on Saturday 24th March to join a sit-in protest.They were there to show their concerns over the way Strathclyde...
View ArticleKilcreggan Ferry website
The new Kilcreggan to Gourock ferry service website is a distinct improvement on the former Seabus one.It carries Service Status information, which Seabus did not – and, as well as an upfront visible...
View ArticleNew CalMac MD agrees fare structure change helpful to Mull and Iona
Martin Dorchester, CalMac’s new Managing Director, has agreed a change to the company’s fare structure between Oban and Mull which will be of significant help to accommodation and holiday providers on...
View ArticleCalMac services into Port Ellen on Islay resume Sunday 1st July
A CalMac spokesperson has confirmed that CalMac’s ferry service between Kennacraig and Port Ellen will resume its normal published timetable in Sunday 1st July with the 09.45 sailings from each of the...
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Alistair Strang: Meatloaf, Draghi and the Futsie. And the DOW. And Elvis of...
Our subscribers at Interactive know we’re pretty good with the FTSE and Dow Jones. I use each to provide final confirmation of what the next day holds for the individual shares, literally running index...
View ArticleGourock-Dunoon ferry: the authoritative position
Last week Cabinet Secretary Alex Neil chaired a meeting with interested parties on the Argyll Ferries passenger service between Gourock and Dunoon.An unconfirmed and unofficial account of this meeting...
View ArticleNew Chair of SPT to consider Kilcreggan ferry
Local MSP, Labour’s Jackie Baillie, met with the new Chair of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) last week, to discuss the on-going saga with the Gourock-Kilcreggan ferry service.Councillor...
View ArticleCalMac geared up to start Campbeltown-Ardrossan ferry service on Thursday night
Ferry operator, Caledonian MacBrayne [CalMac] are counting down to the start of Caledonian MacBrayne’s (CalMac) new ferry service linking Ayrshire and Kintyre, which starts this Thursday, 23rd May.The...
View ArticleScottish Government forced to intervene on loose-mouthed Russell gaffe in...
A senseless act of folly by Argyll’s own blunderbus MSP, Michael Russell has now hit the national media and the twittersphere, with the Scottish Government forced to issue a statement to try to put out...
View ArticleUists get involved in the issue of the Campbeltown to Ardrossan ferry
An unlikely participant has emerged in the imbroglio around Argyll and Bute MSP, Michael Russell’s unfortunate suggestion that the marketing slogan for the new CalMac ferry from Campbeltown to...
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Second Western Ferries boat launched in a week
MV Isle of Seil followed her sister ship into the waters of the Mersey this afternoon, 25th July 2013, from the Cammell Laird Construction Hall in Birkenhead.MV Sound of Soay made her own splash a...
View ArticleWestern Ferries forty years on: youngest fleet in the Clyde, 1.3m passengers...
As Argyll’s Western Ferries prepares today to welcome its two new ferries to the fleet for its Dunoon-Gourock vehicle and passenger service, it is looking at running the youngest fleet on the Clyde,...
View ArticleTransport Scotland running pre-tender Information Day for Gourock-Dunoon...
This Friday, 18th October, at Transport Scotland’s Victoria Quay offices in Edinburgh, the Scottish Government is hosting an Information Day for potential operators of a vehicle and passenger ferry...
View ArticleCalMac HQ party disappointed not to be on inaugural Lochboisdale-Mallaig sailing
CalMac sent its Chair, CEO, Communications Director and another staff colleague on the Oban ferry to Lochboisdale on Monday, so that they could be on the MV Lord of the isles’ inaugural run of the new...
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Indictment of council handling of Easdale junta’s serial abuse of ferrymen
For Argyll has been working through several dossiers of papers in relation to the persistent harrassment and abuse by an unrepresentative local junta of a series of ferrymen employed by Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleMcGrigor blanked again in quest for Deputy First Minister’s conclusion on...
Following yet another in the prolonged series of stonewalling responses to his parliamentary questions attempting to discover the Deputy First Minister’s conclusions on the future of the Gourock-Dunoon...
View ArticleCoruisk deployment: McGrigor probes prove major embarrassment to DFM
Highlands and Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor has pursued Transport Scotland on the detail of the quite scandalous use of public money to pacify the vote in Dunoon this September for Scottish independence....
View ArticleTransport Minister politely puts ill-briefed MSP back in his box – and dances...
As For Argyll reported recently, Labour Highlands and Islands MSP, David Stewart. offered his credibility as hostage in submitting a fleet of parliamentary questions to the Scottish Government which...
View ArticleMcGrigor reminds Deputy First Minister she owes Dunoon her decision on MV...
Yesterday, 13th August, in the Scottish parliament Jamie McGrigor MSP called on the Deputy First Minister to make known before the second parliamentary recess of this summer, her decision on whether or...
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Ferry schedule for Ullapool during harbour upgrade works with enhanced...
Ferry operator CalMac has published details of its services from Stornoway during the period when the Ullapool linkspan will be closed to vehicle traffic from the end of February 2015 due to...
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