Scottish Government in the dock on Shetland Times’ revelations on 2012...
Every one is well aware that there was dirty work at the crossroads, as they say, on Transport Scotland’s 2012 award of the contract to provide ferry services to the Northern Isles.With four finalists...
View ArticleCrown Prosecution wrong on Janner: evidence against him must be heard in public
The Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] has made a grievously wrong decision not- for the second time – to prosecute Lord Greville Janner for historic sexual abuse of children.There is a profound...
View ArticleTwo potential bidders for Clyde and Hebridean Ferry Services contract
Midday yesterday, 31st March, was the deadline for the submission of Pre-Qualification Questionnaires for intending bidders for the retendering of the contract to deliver the network of Clyde and...
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 ArticleFOI documents on Castle Toward support Actual Reality’s allegations against...
Documents received by For Argyll from Argyll and Bute Council on 23rd December 2013 under Freedom of Information legislation and relating to Castle Toward and Actual Reality Learning and Leadership...
View ArticleSalmond judgment under question in second deception on EU membership
The core issue arising from Alex Salmond’s deceptive presentation of a letter on Scottish membership of the EU at yesterday’s First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood is less about the act of deception...
View ArticleCouncil Leader briefs councillors – confidentially – on Castle Toward
The following document was sent to all elected members by Council Leader Dick Walsh, with Deputy Leader, Councillor Ellen Morton. Note that in its latter paragraphs it refers to the legal action which...
View ArticleShould Transport Scotland now count passengers and vehicles on Serco...
Is this another case where ‘best value’ may prove to be anything but that?Serco, the giant service supplier to public sectors across the world, has already admitted to the falsification of data on an...
View ArticleWilliams F1 team pursues Icelandic bank for default on acquisition and...
The financial avalanche of 2008 rumbles on – now tumbling on to the glamorous international race tracks of Formula 1.A case went to trial in Iceland on Friday last, 15th February, brought by the...
View ArticleScottish Natural Heritage statement on controversial Angus red deer cull
Scottish Natural Heritage [SNH] is embroiled in a controversial order to estates in Angus to cull 700 red deer hinds and their caves.Estates which have failed to meet their cull targets have been given...
View ArticleCourt of Session decision sees Serco awarded 6 year NorthLink ferries contract
A decision at a hearing of Edinburgh Court of Session on 29th May was worth £243 million to Serco.It saw Serco confirmed as the Scottish Government’s contractor of choice for the lifeline ferry...
View ArticleSupreme Court ‘first’ for campaigner fighting to protect St Andrews from...
A St Andrews resident facing a huge legal bill in her fight to guard the town from developers has had her liability limited by the Supreme Court after being granted a Protective Costs Order.This is...
View ArticleWhat did council pay for legal advice on failed Helensburgh CHORD tender?
With the hot topic of the moment Argyll and Bute Council administration’s bizarre determination to force through the re-tendering of the Helensburgh CHORD project’s disastrous plan for Colquhoun...
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Muirfield Action Group lays bare derelict Angus Council case
The latest revelations on Angus Council’s presentation of its case to close Muirfield School have borne fruit. Ewan Smith of the Muirfield Action Group has today written to Jonathan Moore, Head of the...
View ArticleIs Gordon Ross of Western Ferries a vexatious litigant?
Former employee of ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne and seemingly a man obsessed, Gordon Ross, now Managing Director of independent Western Ferries, is at it again. He has launched yet another sally...
View ArticleClydeport’s tax avoiding billionaire owner now plans profit from dirty coal...
For Argyll has long been focusing on the absence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy from Clydeport and from most of the businesses held under Peel Holdings, the private sector mega-group...
View ArticleA tale of two protests – and a tale of none
A protest rally was planned for Holyrood for this afternoon (21st January) by the Liberal Democrats against the Scottish Government’s proposed forest leasing scheme. This is one of the lowest points in...
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