Government extends scheme to help people struggling to pay fuel bills
If you’re having problems paying to keep warm enough as winter sets in – or you know someone who is – read on. The Scottish Government has extended its £60 million Energy Assistance Package to cover...
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Suzanne Pilley search: a PR exercise?
Lothian and Borders Police trumpeted a massive search in Argyll this weekend for the body of Edinburgh woman, Suzanne Pilley, missing, presumed dead, since 4th May 2010.Last night, in the light of...
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Scottish Water thanks Rothesay by taking kids to see Edinburgh’s Giant Pandas
Earlier this week Scottish Water took primary school pupils from Rothesay to Edinburgh Zoo to see the Giant Panda, Tian Tian and Yang Guang, which arrived in Scotland last December on a 10-year loan...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute’s new council: First ‘term’ report
New administration. New coalition. New broom. How have they done at the end of their first ‘term’, now that we’re in the summer recess?A great deal of hopes for better were – are – riding on the new...
View ArticleGrant award to Helensburgh and Lomond Carers Project
The Bank of Scotland Foundation’s Small Grants Programme has awarded Helensburgh and Lomond Carers Project over £4,900.Over 2012, the Foundation has awarded a total of £829,850 to one hundred Scottish...
View ArticleMull’s Inverlussa Marine Services wins one year work boat contract from...
Inverlussa Marine Services – a family owned business based on the Isle of Mull – has been awarded a 12 month contract to supply a 21 metre purpose built vessel, Margaret Sinclair, to support The...
View ArticleA83 diversion route may not be quite so near readiness as Transport Minister...
Transport Minister, Keith Brown, talked yesterday, 18th February, of convoys about to start testing the new diversion route up Glen Croe, for use when the A83 suffers a landslide. He also indicated...
View ArticleKidneys now off the PR menu for Health Secretary
It must have looked like a good wheeze to take the media focus off the fiddled waiting time statistics and with the worst waiting times for A&E since 2007 about to be published.Health Secretary,...
View ArticleKintyre and Arran emergency situation on 26th March
[Regular updates on the situation at 27th March can be accessed here.][Update 23.00 below] It is important, with familiarity and roads reopened, not to lose focus on just how many households remain...
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BOWfest 2013 hits the spot
Well, it’s over for another year – but the 2013 Best of the West Festival was a howling success – and that’s not just the wind.30% up on its first day numbers from last year; the festival finished...
View ArticlePR gaffes in Community Land Scotland’s ‘Bunchrew Land Declaration’
The public relations device beloved of Scotland’s First Minister, of giving portentous sounding names to the conclusions of negotiations is a tedious and tacky tactic that can easily backfire.The first...
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Ardbeg space comms: ‘Ground control to major dram, Supernova on the way’
You have to laugh out loud at the insouciance and sheer fun of Islay’s Ardbeg distilllery’s latest press release from Weber Shandwick.‘Gound control to major dram’, it sings, in celebration of the...
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Is Scottish Government taking out Campbeltown to give Prestwick a clear run...
On 3rd March 2015, Highlands and Islands Airports Limited [HIAL] made a curious and little noticed statement on the very tail of the UK Government announcement that it is not to consider the RAF bases...
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David MacBrayne Limited, Marchwood Military Port contract – and consequences
[Updated at foot 1 June 2015] Back on the 3rd March 2015, it was announced by the Ministry of Defence [MoD] that Solent Gateway Ltd was the preferred bidder for the contract to run the 91 hectare...
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