Oban Lorn and the Isles community police meeting
Tuesday 3rd July saw the community police meeting for Oban Lorn and the Isles held at Atlantis Leisure in Oban, chaired by Chief Inspector Brian Auld, with his second in command, Inspector Julie...
View ArticleWhen the cat’s away from Tiree – it needs a Police helicopter from Glasgow to...
Argyll’s sister Atlantic islands of Tiree and Coll share a lone policeman, PC Stephen Tanner, who stays on Tiree.He’s away on holiday and. for whatever reason, the authority concerned, Strathclyde...
View ArticleOban Councillor raises issue of closure of town’s only play park
Councillor Fred Hall, representing Oban South and the Isles – who is putting himself up for re-election as an independent councillor, has raised the issue of Oban’s loss of its only play park for...
View ArticleFred Hall now a free man
Yesterday, 14th March, Councillor Fred Hall completed outstanding work for his constituents, cleared his desk, returned his council kit, had his councillor’s official email account stopped – and walked...
View ArticleMore concerns on SNP candidate selection for Oban Ward 4 by-election
For Argyll has learned from informed sources that the Oban Branch of the SNP is divided over the choice of candidate for the by-election coming for Oban South & the Isles [Ward 4] on 22nd May...
View ArticleCandidates and issues in Oban South and the Isles by-election
[Updated 11.58] There are five candidates for the vacant seat for Ward 4 of Argyll and Bute Council – Oban, South and the Isles, to be contested on 22nd May 2014, at the same time as the Europe-wide...
View ArticleBit of fun at last night’s Mull hustings for Oban, South and the Isles...
An audience of around 25 at Craignure Village Hall last night, 6th May, saw in action all five candidates for the by election on 22nd May in the council’s Ward 4, Oban, South and the Isles.The...
View ArticleOban South and the Isles by-election: Neil MacIntyre in profile
Neil MacIntyre has, in what must seem like a previous incarnation, worked for 20 years for Argyll and Bute Council. These days he works night shifts at Tesco. His wife works in the health sector. One...
View ArticleOban South and the Isles: David Pollard in profile
‘I’ll be on the pier, wearing my rosette’, texted Dr David Pollard, the Mull-based Liberal Democrat candidate. ‘What? Not a rose between your teeth?’, we replied from aboard CalMac’s MV Isle of Mull,...
View ArticleOban South and the Isles by-election: John Macgregor in profile
Almost as soon as we started talking, John MacGregor said: ‘I always want to be Number One, to be the best, to win. I’m not anywhere to be Number Two.’This wasn’t said in relation to the forthcoming...
View ArticleOban South and the Isles by-election: Andrew Vennard in profile
Andrew Vennard is a young solicitor who came to Oban in 2006 to do his two year professional apprenticeship and has since chosen to make his home in the town, working with E.Thornton & Co.He is the...
View Article4 candidates for Oban South and the Isles by-election today: the team roles...
When For Argyll published profiles of four of the five candidates for the Oban, South and the Isles by-election, on 15th May, we set our readers a challenge: to look at the nine team member types...
View ArticleCouncil by-election result: Labour takes first seat in Argyll and Bute...
[Updated below] In a personal and political triumph, Neil MacIntyre has won the Oban South and the Isles by-election [Ward 4] for a seat in Argyll and Bute Council.Neil MacIntyre is a familiar...
View ArticleNew councillor, Neil MacIntyre, clarifies position he will adopt at council
Readers have been wondering aloud whether newly elected Labour councillor for Oban South and the Isles, Neil MacIntyre, would:ally himself to any existing group in the chamber,or act independently,...
View ArticleScottish Labour responses to Oban South and the Isles and Fife council...
[Updated] Scottish Labour, locally and nationally, has issued press releases marking the breakthrough for the party in Argyll with its first seat in Argyll and Bute Council in fifteen years, won...
View ArticleSNP in serious split in Oban North & Lorn by election
First of all, there are five candidates nominated for the Oban North and Lorn by-election on 17th July 2014, for one vacant place on Argyll and Bute Council. They are, in alphabetical order:Gerry...
View ArticleJohn MacGregor
Where does one start? Oban businessman, John MacGregor who had so recently won the Oban North and Lorn by-election to Argyll and Bute Council, died suddenly earlier today, 28th July 2014.Everyone who...
View ArticlePro-indy Sunday Herald seen utterly to concoct smear on Labour
[Updated 17.30 below] In Today’s edition of the Sunday Herald, which declared firmly for the pro-indy campaign back at Easter, attempts to make a blatant and utterly groundless smear on Labour. This...
View Article‘Voice of Oban’ a clear SNP smear attempt on Councillor Roddy McCuish
A long anonymous tract was circulated electronically yesterday – as ‘The Voice of Oban’, graced by no names but working hard to smear the now Independent local Councillor and former SNP Leader of...
View ArticleDecent politics in Mull
David Pollard, the Liberal Democrat candidate in the May 2014 by-election for the council seat of Oban South and the Isles, ran a local campaign as part of his wider campaign for the seat – he came...
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