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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...

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Council 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...

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Is 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...

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Council 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...

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Council 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...

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Good 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...

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Jo 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...

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Argyll 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...

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Kilcreggan-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...

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Mull, 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...

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The 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...

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RMT 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...

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Protest 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...

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Labour 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...

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Unite’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...

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Lamont 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...

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CalMac 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...

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Clegg 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...

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Jack 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...

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Expect 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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