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Hugh Reilly In The Scotsman – Offensive?
Last week’s article in The Scotsman by Hugh Reilly was, in the Editor’s opinion, amazingly distasteful. The piece was intended as a ‘slagging off’ of Scottish Labour’s leader Johann Lamont. Mr Reilly said “The First Minister-in-waiting (waiting like Godot but for a far longer period, I hope), told of her childhood on the island of… »
RSPB Report for December 2011
The extremely wet and windy weather continued unabated through December with a hurricane strength storm on 8th causing widespread damage across the island. A few birds got into trouble in the high winds and there were reports of a swan in a garden at Scarinish and a Cormorant on the road at Balephetrish. Unlike in… »
No Tiree Array
What’s Happened Since Our Last Newsletter The visualizations seen on the visit to Morecambe Bay highlighted many of the issues if the development goes ahead. SPR’s June visualizations were in all probability based upon the wrong foundation type . These were based on Monopile Foundation. Of interest, at Scottish & Southern Energy’s Greater Gabbard Array,… »
Reid & Hay Welcome Fuel Duty Cut
Alan Reid, Liberal Democrat MP for Argyll & Bute, and Alison Hay Scottish Parliamentary Candidate welcomed the announcement by Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, that a 5p per litre cut in fuel duty would be piloted in the Inner & Outer Hebrides and the Northern Isles, subject to agreement from the European Union…. »
Beetle Bonanza and Bumblebee Safari’s
Coll and Tiree provided a ‘hive’ of activity, with experts converging on the islands during National Insect Week. Visitors included Bob Dawson representing the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and a group of four entomologists; including Darren Mann (Oxford University Museum of Natural History), Geoff Hancock (Hunterian Museum, Glasgow), Garth Foster (Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust) and Jeanne… »
