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DisCHORD: Break down of procedural integrity and democracy over Helensburgh...
A significant dispute is in train in Helensburgh, by far the major town in Argyll and Bute and, like the others, long allowed to run down at heel.The area’s five main towns were put into in a...
View ArticleSad loss of Councillor Al Reay
In what is the third loss of a local councillor and the fourth of a local political figure in under a year, Councillor Al Reay, Councillor for Helensburgh Central, has died suddenly today, 25th...
View ArticleCouncillor Robb resigns from Helensburgh CHORD Board
Helensburgh Councillor James Robb has this morning tendered his resignation from the Board of the Helensburgh CHORD town centre regeneration project.He has found it impossible to do his job on the...
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Helensburgh Winter Festival photo competition winner
An eerie photo of a ship at the Faslane fuel depot was the unanimous choice of judges in the Helensburgh Winter festival photographic competition – and it’s easy to see why.It’s not only mysterious –...
View ArticleFirst Winter Festival for Helensburgh
Off to a cracking start with a great winning photo carrying all the shiver and tease of winter with the frisson of a warship, the promotional campaign to flag up the first Helensburgh Winter Festival...
View ArticleOutcome of SNP group’s bare knuckle crisis meeting
We are hearing that yesterday’s crisis meeting of SNP Councillors was, shall we say, robust – a political bare knuckle occasion.The current suspension from the party of Dunoon’s Councillor Michael...
View ArticleThe first battle at Thursday’s council meeting – and predictions
The first – and possibly the decisive battle – at Thursday’s meeting of Argyll and Bute Council will be on an apparently minor procedural point: who will take the chair for the session.The Provost is...
View ArticleNew council administration appears not to be what it seemed
We understand, on good authority, that the proposed new administration for Argyll and Bute Council has not emerged from a sound or indeed, a proper, decision taking process.Two Conservative...
View ArticleCouncillor Gary Mulvaney: Response to council meltdown
This statement has been received from Helensburgh Councillor, Gary Mulvaney, leader of the Conservative group in Argyll and Bute Council:‘A week is a long time in politics and I think that I’ve just...
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Triumph for Helensbugh CHORD as Summer Festival gets going
We paid an impromptu visit to Helensburgh last Thursday 17th July, to check out the work being done under the CHORD town centre and waterfront regeneration programme in advance of the start of the...
View ArticleCastle Toward a gone deal
[Updated below 18.30] In the succinct words of Councillor Michael Breslin:‘They stuffed it. Motion from Mulvaney and McAlpine and my amendment ruled incompetent. Democracy it is not.’We are confounded...
View ArticleCastle Toward: the Mulvaney motion
It’s worth looking objectively at what Councillor Gary Mulvaney proposed at yesterday’s, 12th February, Special Meeting of Argyll & Bute Council on the Castle Toward sale.It is no more than...
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