Tommy Ralston and Kintyre’s lifeboats: it began with a camera
Tommy Ralston, born in Campbeltown and now an honorary Fifer, left school in 1950 and ‘went to the fishing’ - on ring-netting herring boats. He moved to work on the Mallaig fleet, met a Mallaig girl...
View ArticleScottish Parliament petitioned to commemorate Thomas Muir
One of the five Scottish Martyrs transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay, Glasgow-born Thomas Muir (1765-1799), founder of The Friends of the People in Scotland, has never been commemorated by a...
View ArticleMorphing Scotland: Saudi Arabia to Silicone Valley
Never one to promise small and bringing Scotland right into the local culture, Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond has told a San Francisco forum that offshore renewables will make Scotland the...
View ArticleInternational fleet of classic Fife yachts to create a July sailing spectacle...
This summer, 2013, a fleet of magnificent wooden yachts will be sailing into Argyll’s Secret Coast in the Cowal peninsula, a little-known corner of the west coast of Scotland that’s steeped in nautical...
View ArticleA starter of Fifes – main course for Argyll’s Secret Coast in 5 days
In three days time, Friday 28th June, twenty of the classic yachts they call ‘the fairest of Fairlie’ register for the 2013 Fife Regatta – and the following day they compete on the Round Cumbrae race....
View ArticleCowells gathering at The Cowal Gathering
If your surname happens to be Cowell [and Simon would be welcome], where better to host a family reunion than the famous Cowal Highland Gathering?Living several thousand miles away hasn’t put off the...
View ArticleNorth Sea oil & gas outlook
The North Sea oil and gas industry is facing job losses in the upstream side of operations, with Chevron and Shell having recently announced the cutting of 475 largely onshore jobs in Aberdeen, 250...
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