Local press on current state of play in school closures
The best of Argyll’s local weekly newspapers, the Dunoon Observer has posted the following piece on its website: School closures probe demanded. This is a careful and accurate piece of reporting on a...
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Major opposition Councillor calls for intervention by auditors at Argyll and...
For Argyll has acquired this information which has already been leaked from within the council in apparently strange circumstances.It reveals correspondence between a councillor and a noted independent...
View ArticleEducation Secretary appeals Judicial Review decision in favour of Western...
It has been announced that the Scottish Government is to appeal the recent Judicial Review decision where Lord Brailsford upheld the challenge by Western Isles Council to the Education Secretary’s...
View ArticleSchool closures: fascinating Court of Session opinion on Scottish Ministers’...
At least there has now been some movement in the appeal by the Education Secretary [aka Scottish Ministers] against the Judicial Review opinion issued in June 2012 by Lord Brailsford in favour of...
View ArticleSo what’s the position with school closures now?
Following the appeal opinion delivered by Lady Paton, supporting the substance of the June 2012 Judicial Review decision in favour of Western Isles Council [and against the appealing Scottish...
View ArticleSchool closures: Lady Paton’s appeal opinion in favour of Western Isles Council
Lady Paton’s recent opinion on Scottish Ministers’ Appeal against Lord Brailsford’s June 2012 Judicial Review opinion in favour of Western Isles Councll’s petition on a schools closure call-in...
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Scott Ryder wins World Caber Tossing Championship
Yesterday’s 2013 World Caber Tossing Championships took place with an international field of heavy athletes at the Inveraray Highland Games.This was held in the grounds of Inveraray Castle and was a...
View ArticleLocal Government Boundary Commission for Scotland starts new stage of fifth...
With some procedural thinking seeming less than secure, the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland has today begun another stage of its review of Scotland’s local government electoral...
View ArticleStewart Hosie MP to address Kings College audience on Scottish independence
Speaking at a debate in London this evening, 4th March, organised by the polling company IPSOS/Mori and Kings College, SNP Treasury spokesman Stewart Hosie MP, is to set out the party’s plans for what...
View ArticleCrown Office statement following AAIB report on 16-fatality 2009 North Sea...
It was announced today that, five years after the event, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch [AAIB] report on the Super Puma crash in the North Sea in 2009 had found that the accident had been...
View ArticleWhere is there reason for 3rd Sector partners to trust the Alcohol & Drugs...
There has just been yet another systemically critical report on Argyll & Bute’s Alcohol & Drugs Partnership [ADP]from a commissioned consultant, Bill Breckenridge. He was brought in to...
View ArticleTransport Scotland’s position on the 2012 Northern Isles Ferry services...
This afternoon, 6th May, Transport Scotland sent For Argyll, voluntarily, the following position statement on the 2012 award of the Northern Isles Ferry Services contract, an issue on which, as we...
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