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Ardbeg to launch Ardbog at Ardbog Day in Islay Festival
You have to smile. You have to be there. You have to taste it and you will certainly want to have it.Islay’s renowned Ardbeg single malt whisky distillery is calling its latest whisky – Ardbog.With an...
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Arctic Convoy navies celebrated at Loch Ewe as surviving veterans receive...
High on the hillside above Loch Ewe yesterday, 9th May 2013, the Gods smiled with sunshine, warmth and no wind on an assembled crowd of veterans of the World War II Arctic Convoys to north Russia;...
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The Campbeltown Picture House Centenary
With the centenary of Campbeltown’s joyful little waterfront Picture House coming up, preparations for an appropriate celebration began shortly after the turn of the year, 2013.Feverish activity in the...
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Ellie Donald and Olivia Kerr of Lochgilphead High School blogging on...
Two Lochgilphead High School pupils, Ellie Donald and Olivia Kerr, feature as bloggers for the most recent, 20th June, entry on the Scottish Natural Heritage [SNH] website, Scotland’s Nature.Snapberry,...
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Western Ferries’ Sound of Soay launched, Sound of Seil due Thursday
It’s not only royal progeny being launched this week. Argyll’s Western Ferries saw the first of its two new ferries for the Dunoon-Gourock route, MV Sound of Soay, launched yesterday, Monday 22nd July,...
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Check out this Mail Online story sent us by a reader who is still grinning.Perhaps they didn’t have an ‘H’ template in the box? They did add include ‘C’, after all.Congratulations – with some envy – to...
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The encore: Sound of Seil on her way back from the bar
Off the Perch Rock Lighthouse on the return part of her sea trials yesterday, Western Ferriess’ new Sound of Seil came back into the River Mersey from the Liverpool bar. As she came in past the...
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Roy Elwood wearing his Arctic Star medal in Remembrance Day wreath-laying
Roy Elwood is am exhibited photographer and a former member of the crew of the destroyer HMS Zambesi on Arctic Convoy escort duty.He did his torpedo training in Loch Long, he has written for us several...
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Lording it on the new Mallaig-Lochboisdale winter service
Photographer, Martin Briscoe, has given us these shots of an early passage by CalMac’s new three year pilot of a winter-service between Lochboisdale in South Uist in the Western Isles, across the Minch...
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Andy Mahon: Cammell Laird – and the mystery visit of damaged new superyacht,...
Cammell Lairds has moved from SOS [Sound of Soay & Seil] to SOS [Super Ostentatious Solandge].Since the departure of Western Ferries’ Sound of Seil & Soay on the 30th November2013, Cammell...
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This is the New Year for Norfolk folk made homeless by December storm
On 5th December 2013, the biggest storm surge in 60 years came charging straight into the Norfolk coast.On the cliff top at Hemsby, three homes fell into the sea and four more were seriously damaged –...
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Any answers to this Kintyre puzzle?
Can we do a collective favour for Martin Claxton, the Norwich photographer who let us have some of his photographs of the catastrophic impact of the 5th December 2013 storm surge on Norfolk’s seaside...
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Andy Mahon: Seil’s and Soay’s wetbasin mate leaves as Hamnavoe comes in to...
It’s a busy time at Cammell Lairds at Birkenhead now that the ferry maintenance period is here. We’ve borrowed the Hamnavoe so that we have something different to photograph.The Northtlink Ferries...
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Martin Claxton: St Conan’s Kirk in pictures
In return for readers’ help in identifying the strange structures he had photographed on the south east coast of Kintyre, north of Campbeltown – which turned out to be an uncompleted World War II gun...
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Martin Briscoe: Sounds to Lochs: meet Sunart and Scavaig
Look familiar? Remember Sound of Sanda and Sound of Scalpay? Sound of Soay and Sound of Seil, their replacements in the Western Ferries vehicle and passenger ferry fleet are busy crunching the numbers...
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Martin Briscoe catches Loch Sunart on the move
Martin Briscoe has been keeping a weather eye on the movements in Loch Linnhe of the two former Western Ferries boats sold to the Fort William Underwater Centre to work as dive boats.On Thursday, the...
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Jan Nimmo: With the cork oak harvesters of Sierra de Huelva
This piece of superb photojournalism has been created by Jan Nimmo in response to the interest of our readership in her careful observation of the people and culture of the Sierra de Huelva in Spain’s...
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Andy Mahon: a photo-by-photo tribute to Draken Harald Hårfagre as she arrives...
Well she made it, maybe not fully intact [minus her mast] - but a magnificent sight, none the less.Draken Harald Hårfagre took her pilot [Alan] shortly after 07.30 this morning, 17th July, arriving...
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Cybernats savage Paul MacCartney for ‘Let’s stay together’ plea
[Photo update below] Given the way things are here, it was inevitable. Like JK Rowling before him, the Cybernats and IndyTrolls have lit upon musician and composer, Paul McCartney, dumping vitriolic...
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Mary Gillies solo photographic exhibition
Work by photographer Mary Gillies, member of Mid Argyll Camera Club, is the subject of the Club’s second solo exhibition which opened on Monday this week at the Lochgilphead Community Centre and runs...
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