Latest Argyll Ferries Gourock-Dunoon scare story is mischievous untruth
A story was circulated by a comment posted to For Argyll that, last week, the passage between Gourock and Dunoon of one of the Argyll Ferries boats was so unstable that frightened passengers were told...
View ArticleHilarious contradictory scare tactics on post-independence defence
Former First Sea Lord and Labour Junior Minister, Lord West of Spithead has delivered himself of a veritable political boomerang in the latest in a series of attempts to frighten Scots on...
View ArticleHerald loses judgment in blatantly political excursion on school closures
Saturday’s edition of The Herald (14th April 2012) went spectacularly off piste in an astonishing series of items on the school closures issue.The initial impactThese pieces were immediately over the...
View ArticleDunoon ferry services: facts and fancies
Dunoon is on the south east coast of the magnificent Cowal peninsula, on the inner Firth of Clyde. Just across the water is the major conurbation of Inverclyde, virtually a continuation of Glasgow,...
View ArticleResearch reveals shock insights into reality of Dunoon ferry service provision
Research on statistics and some number crunching draws a very interesting picture of the services currently delivered to Dunoon by its two ferry services.These are: Argyll Ferries’ passenger-only...
View ArticleArgyll Ferries delighted to assist Cowal Games
An Argyll Ferries spokesman, responding to the successful completion of the company’s special service schedule to support the attraction of the annual Cowal Gathering to visitors, has just said:‘The...
View ArticleUK Energy Minister lays out specifics of Scotland’s inability to fund North...
In a fringe session at the ongoing Conservative Party conference, Michael Fallon, UK Energy Minister, spelled out the scale of the commitment the UK Government has made to the oil and gas industry to...
View ArticleConcerns raised on loss of perspective in Salmond’s rant at Spain...
Two senior British civil servants were recently invited to Madrid by Spain’s Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, to discuss with Spanish civil servants the independence referendum to take place in Scotland...
View ArticleNIESR paper looks at the fiscal challenges and opportunities for an...
The independent National Institute of Economic and Social Research has just produced a series of six research papers looking at aspects of the fiscal challenges and opportunities for an independent...
View Article19th September and after
Alex Bell, Alex Salmond’s former Head of Policy, has recently said that the SNP’s planned response if it lost the Independence Referendum vote, was immediately to start campaigning for more powers for...
View ArticleSillars no authority but authentic voice of ‘Yes’ culture of intimidation and...
[Updated below 14th September] Jim Sillars has no power to put into action one iota of what he threatened last night and withdrew this morning – with the hilarious cover story that he had foamed at the...
View ArticleRetiral at the first fence – Salmond will not challenge Danny Alexander
Former First Minister, Alex Salmond, let it be made known – for a week or so with no denial – that he was considering standing against Liberal Democrat Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander, in Inverness...
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