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Argyll Array Project Update #23 – February 2012
Community Partnership Fund The first meeting with Tiree Community Development Trust to discuss this initiative took place on the 24th of January. A joint report of that meeting appears elsewhere in this issue. Marine Traffic Survey As I said in the last update, there are due to be two surveys of marine traffic on the… »
Argyll Array Project Update #22 – January 2012
Welcome to the first Argyll Array Project Update of the year. I and the rest of the Project Team would like to wish everyone a happy, peaceful and healthy 2012. Community Partnership Fund The first meeting with Tiree Community Development Trust to discuss this initiative will take place during the week beginning 23rd… »
Reid Calls For Inquiry Into Scottish Electricity
Following early January’s storms and the resulting electricity black-outs, Alan Reid, MP for Argyll & Bute said, “I am full of praise for the engineers from Scottish & Southern Energy who worked such long hours in very difficult conditions to restore power to the many affected communities. However, prevention is always better than cure and… »
RET And Hauliers
The Tiree Branch of the Scottish Crofting Federation have been in touch with Keith Brown, Transport Minister in the Scottish Government, with regard to the removal of RET on Commercial Vehicles on ferries. The plan is to replace RET with an amended system of the former “bulk discount rate” which had been in place prior… »
World’s rarest turtle washed ashore
This young turtle was found freshly dead on 9th December, the day after the big storm, and was originally identified as a Loggerhead. However, experts have now re-identified it as Britain’s 36th record of Kemp’s Ridley Turtle (Lepidochelys kempii). A few days later, a second individual was found on a beach in Ceredigion, West Wales…. »
Still nO² Signal!!
O2 customers on Tiree are still without a mobile phone signal following the storm of 8th December!!! Despite numerous complaints from customers, as well as the involvement of Councillor Mary-Jean Devon and a feature on the radio, O2 have failed to recognise or repair the problem with the transmitter. It now seems that O2 have… »
Mod Success for Tiree’s Talented Youth
Tiree once again led the field in the under 19 accordion competition ( March, Strathspey and Reel of own choice) at the National Mod in Stornoway. Pictured are Ian Smith (right) and Eilidh MacFadyen who won Gold and Silver respectively. Also pictured is Jack MacRobbie who has attended Tiree Feis regularly over the years and… »
RSPB information – September 2011
September is the month when large numbers of birds are on the move as they head south once more for the winter. Lying on the East Atlantic Flyway, Tiree is well placed to see migration in action as wildfowl and waders pass through from their Arctic breeding grounds, whilst strong winds from fast-moving Atlantic depressions… »
25th Tiree Wave Classic
Britain’s biggest and best windsurfing competition has just taken place on Tiree – for the 25th year. The week long Tiree Wave classic attracts some of the best windsurfers from across the world. It is also the crucial third leg of the British wave sailing Association Wave Tour. Organisers have gone to great lengths to… »
Argyll Array Project Update 17 October 2011
Offshore wind careers evening There was a good turnout at the careers evening organised by SPR at the end of last month. There were brief talks from two SPR Operations and Maintenance managers and also from a work boat operator, who had travelled from the Netherlands especially for the event. The Careers Service gave their… »
