Mull Rally navigates a special stage
The 2300 Club’s annual Tour of Mull Rally – which we annually insist sees F1 out of sight for sport, skills, risk, excitement and the pendulum of success – is weaving its way round a special stage just...
View ArticleEvent saboteurs exist beyond Mull
2009 saw two major Scottish outdoor competition events troubled by circumstances impacting on their respective programmes.Both incidents were the height of irresponsibility and both could have caused...
View ArticleDeer farmers plight highlighted in McGrigor contribution to Holyrood farming...
The Scottish Parliament yesterday (25th February) debated the Brian Pack Enquiry into the Single Farm Payment.Highlands and Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor, contributed several points of substance to the...
View ArticleMull does self-mutilation: 2010 Tour of Mull Rally lost
This is one of the saddest and most enraging situations we have had to report. The Committee of the 2300 Club, which has run the celebrated Tour of Mull Rally for 40 years, decided unanimously at a...
View ArticleTree planting issues for discussion with Woodland Expansion Advisory Group in...
We have already reported the meeting coming up in Oban on 22nd February with the Woodland Expansion Advisory Group but have been talking to Andrew Barbour, who chairs the group about the background...
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Auchindrain success with inaugural Food Fair
If one can describe great weather as ‘a following wind’ this was how the gods smiled on Auchindrain’s first Food Fair over the weekend of 19th and 20th May.In typical Auchindrain style, the event at...
View ArticleSSE’s record breaking efforts for Kintyre and Arran
All households in Kintyre and Arran were reconnected to network supply by close of play on Thursday 28th March, with SSE engineers using wooden poles to bypass the collapsed towers – which totalled ten...
View ArticleDalmally Show tomorrow
Dalmally Agricultural Society has its annual show tomorrow, 7th September.There will be all the familiar elements of this much loved event – the judging of highland & commercial beef cattle, the...
View ArticlePatients’ bodies now graffiti sites for alpha male surgeons
A consultant surgeon at Birmingham University Hospital has been suspended pending an internal hospital investigation of misconduct.Colleagues said to be conducting a routine inspection of a...
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Moving Minds at Auchindrain
On Friday 25th July, Auchindrain Township, south of Inveraray on the A83, launched an exhibition that runs until late September.Moving Minds aims to do just what it says – and it cannot fail to do...
View ArticleConcerns about new rules on cattle movements
Local farmers have voiced concern about the Scottish Government’s strict new rules on reporting cattle movements.From 1stJanuary 2015, Scotland’s beef farmers face more aggressive cross-compliance...
View ArticleSolicitor General announces review of agricultural crime prosecution policy
The Solicitor General, Lesley Thomson QC, has today, 3rd March 2015, announced a full review of the way agricultural crimes are prosecuted in Scotland.The issue of agricultural crime was recently...
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Trees for Life: Beaver reintroduction offers major benefits to Scotland
With the end of the five year Scottish Beaver Trial, conservationist are gearing up to fight for the permanent freeing of the species to live in Scotland.This is a time for a rational consideration of...
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