McGrigor targets support from Single Farm Payments for deer farmers
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands and Islands MSP and Conservative candidate for Argyll and Bute in the Scottish Election 2011, has raised the issue at Holyrood of the application to deer farmers of support...
View ArticleJamie McGrigor: My Argyll
Argyll for me started at the age of 6 when my family moved from Stirlingshire to a hill farm on the banks of Loch Awe.My early memories of Cladich School and my exceptional school teacher, Mrs Keith,...
View ArticleAndrew Vennard on Oban North and Lorn
A project which I believe would make a big addition to the ward of Oban North and Lorn would involve working with the staff at SAMS to develop their ongoing marine research programmes into business...
View ArticleThe For Argyll Ward 5 Challenge
For Argyll invited all five candidates standing in the Oban, North and Lorn [Ward 5] by-election on 17th July to: ‘propose a single addition to the constituency which YOU personally feel would be...
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 ArticleSpot the candidate?
[Updated below 7th February] Which 2014 candidate for a seat on Argyll and Bute Council paid off Rangers Football Club debt three years ago and can’t wait for the forthcoming EGM?We will reveal the...
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