Two staff suspended from Argyll and Bute Council Press Office
What is going on at Argyll and Bute Council Press Office? The national press are all over this at the moment.The initial story was that the entire council press office had been suspended following the...
View ArticleCouncil statement on press staff suspensions and more leaked information
Argyll and Bute Council’s CEO, Sally Loudon, has just placed the following statement on the council website:‘Two members of Council staff have been suspended pending an investigation. This...
View ArticleIs there anyone left in the council communications office?
(Updated below) Argyll and Bute Council is advertising for a Communications Officer. But who would apply to work there in the current circumstances?Its present Communications Manager is suspended...
View ArticleCouncil information on resignations of two suspended press officers
Argyll and Bute Council has replied to our requestfor confirmation of the resignations of the two senior press officers who had been suspended. As we had published earlier following The Herald’s...
View ArticleCouncil suspends Helensburgh CHORD Colquhoun Square redesign
The new administration of Argyll and Bute Council has taken the decision to suspend the redesign of Helensburgh’s Colquhoun Square until council officers respond to the instruction to come up with two...
View ArticleGood appointment to council press office
Argyll and Bute’s press office has been left bereft of reputation and senior staff. The remaining rump has been rudderless and incapable – most evidently so in the disastrous handling of the return to...
View ArticleJo Smith dismissed as Council Communications Manager
Yesterday, on Monday 20th August, Argyll and Bute Council dismissed its suspended Communications Manager for bringing the council into disrepute.A disciplinary hearing at Kilmory last week saw Ms Jo...
View ArticleArgyll Ferries Gourock-Dunoon service suspended
[02.45 update 25th September - Situation review at 06.00] Yesterday – 24th September, with NE winds gusting to to over 40 knots, Argyll Ferries suspended its Gourock-Dunoon passenger service from...
View ArticleKilcreggan-Gourock ferry service suspended
[17.30 update - suspended for the rest of today] The same strong and gusting NE winds that have seen a range of Calmac’s west coast ferries and that around 14.00 but with a situation review due shortly...
View ArticleMull, Dunoon, ferries and storm winds
CalMac’s ferry from the Isle of Mull to Oban yesterday took six bours to compete a normally 45 minute passage.Argyll Ferries passenger service between Gourock and Dunoon had to be suspended in the same...
View ArticleThe West Coast Rail tender foul-up cannot have been ‘a mistake’
[5th October update below] The UK Government’s ‘explanation’ for why it has found it imperative to retire the entire tendering and contracting process for the West Coast rail franchise utterly lacks...
View ArticleRMT calls off Northern Isles ferries strike
Following what both sides describe as significant progress, the RMT Union has suspended the planned days of strike action on Serco’s Northern Isles ferry routes over the Christmas and New Year...
View ArticleProtest at CHC heliport suspended after employers agree union terms tonight
Agreement reached with oil industry employers in talks this evening has seen offshore union, RMT suspending a protest planned for tomorrow morning at the heliport of Super Puma operators, CHC.The...
View ArticleLabour has no hope unless it cleans up
The Labour party has inflicted two bad strikes upon itself this weekend.First of all, its Leader, Ed Milliband [and only the desperate would imagine that David would be any better], reacted to the GMB...
View ArticleUnite’s Grangemouth Convener resigns after completion of Ineos investigation
Stephen Deans, Convener for the Unite Union at Grangemouth and the trigger for Unite’s disastrously misjudged strike threats to Ineos, owner of the complex, resigned from his job today.He had been...
View ArticleLamont looking for an acceptable solution to Labour’s Falkirk crisis
More revelations have emerged about the Unite trade union’s attempt to manipulate the selection of the candidate to represent the Labour party in the Falkirk constituency at the 2015 General...
View ArticleCalMac has relief vessel on way for Tarbert Portavadie route
A recently recurring technical problem in its new hybrid diesel-electric ferry, MV Lochinvar, has led to CalMac, the west coast ferry operator, having to cancel services on the route and yesterday to...
View ArticleClegg dreams of threesome coalition for Westminster in the face of the...
Sky pilot Lib Dem Leader, Nick Clegg, is likely to break up on re-entry to earth’s atmosphere following the May 2015 General Election. With the party’s abject performance in the recent by election at...
View ArticleJack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind caught offering to sell influence for cash
In a Daily Telegraph classic sting to be published and broadcast tomorrow, 23rd February, Former Home and Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw and former Secretary of State for Scotland, Defence and Foreign...
View ArticleExpect two days of disruption to ferry services
With strong southerly winds, gusting to Force 8/9 forecast for 23rd and 24th February, disruption to ferry services is to be expected.At the time of writing, 08.30 23rd February, the only CalMac ferry...
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