Online voting opens for Gaelic short films
FilmG, MG ALBA’s Gaelic online media shorts competition, has received an outstanding number of entries this year. All 54 of them are now available to view online and to vote for there – see link...
View ArticleVote Bute: BBC Scotland news clip on Rhubodach forest buy-out
A BBC Scotland unit visited Bute on Tuesday (2nd February) to film a clip on the proposed community buy-out of Rhubodach forest for the morning, midday and evening news programmes on Monday 8th...
View ArticleBute urged to vote on Rhubodach forest buy-out as BBC features community...
In its morning, lunchtime and evening news bulletins today 88th February), BBC Scotland is featuring Bute Community Land Company‘s initiative to buy Rhubodach forest at the north end of the island.The...
View ArticleBute Community Land Company gets the perfect storm – media storm
Yesterday (8th February) was all about Bute – and the largest Community Ballot ever undertaken in Scotland – island wide.As we’d reported, BBC Scotland had been over to the island to film some local...
View Article94% YES vote for Bute Community Forest at Rhubodach
(Updated below) The Isle of Bute voted today on the proposed community buy out of Rhubodach Forest for the Attenboroughs. Whatever the community decision was to be, it needed 50% of the entire islands...
View ArticleSpecial events and special rates at Arduaine Garden Spring Festival
This coming weekend, 16th-18th April, Argyll’s famous west coast Arduaine Garden, on Loch Melfort, south of Oban will showcase the beauty of springtime in Argyll in a special festival.As well as the...
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New BBC series: ‘Making Scotland’s Lanscape’ starts on 24th October
The first of five programmes in a new series, Making Scotland’s Landscape, airs on BBC One on Sunday 24th October 2010 from 8.00pm-9.00pm.Taking a fresh look at Scotland’s landscape – and how much man...
View ArticleWeather cancelled: Brian Taylor’s Big Debate at Ardrishaig
The Met Office has issued an early warning of severe or extreme weather for Thursday and Friday for western areas of Scotland including much of Argyll and Bute.The forecast warns of heavy snow...
View ArticleMiliband forgets the name of the best current Scottish labour leadership...
Evidence of the distance of Scotland from the consciousness of the UK Labour party came when party leader, Ed Miliband, was being interviewed by BBC Scotland.Predictably, the questions turned to the...
View ArticleAudience opportunity for Labour leadership candidates’ Newsnight Scotland debate
Newsnight Scotland is hosting a special candidates’ debate on Monday 5th December 2011 as part of its Scottish Labour Leadership Election coverage.All three candidates Tom Harris, Johann Lamont and Ken...
View ArticleA83 issue features on national news
Argyll First’s campaign to see the thorough stabilising, upgrading and full trunking of the vital artery the A83 is to Argyll, is continuing to attract widespread attention .BBC Scotland’s national...
View ArticleBBC ALBA to broadcast Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2012
As six finalists compete to take the prestigious title of BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2012, for the first time ever the awards ceremony will be televised as BBC ALBA cameras capture...
View ArticleNew MG ALBA chair gets down to work
The new chair of Gaelic media body, MG ALBA, Maggie Cunningham,yesterday (2nd July) started her role with the body responsible for Gaelic programming in Scotland.Appointed for a four year term by...
View ArticleBBC ALBA only broadcaster of newco Rangers’ first match
BBC ALBA, the Gaelic television channel, is the only one to broadcast newco Rangers first match – a cup match with Brechin they eventually won 2-1.Curiously, BBC Scotland’s television news at 18.45, in...
View ArticleScottish Government reshuffle: the media, the strategy, the challenges, the...
The first thing to be noted about yesterday’s modest reshuffle of his ministerial team by Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, is the sheer selective parochialism of its reporting by BBC...
View ArticleBBC has some problems in Scotland
Today’s BBC webpage for Scotland carried a story on the concerns expressed by Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee on the Department for Transport’s plans to close down ten coastguard stations...
View ArticleReports of SSE giving out false information on Campbeltown ‘reconnection’
We are being told by an angry resident of Campbeltown that SSE are repeatedly giving inaccurate information to the media on the status of the supply to the town.This resident turned on the radio at...
View ArticleVisit Arran scores a hit in advance of Scottish Tourism Expo tomorrow
Today, Visit Arran got a link to BBC Scotland for the lunchtime news, focusing on a herd of hampers they had made up and asking who the lucky recipients were to be.They are for all of the SSE engineers...
View ArticlePublicity coup for threatened rural primary school at Baldernock
Baldernock Primary School in East Dunbartonshire has just been a major feature on BBC Scotland’s evening news coverage around the report issued today by the Commission on the Delivery of Rural...
View ArticleUKIP complaint against BBC Scotland
UKIP is in the process of making a formal complaint against BBC Scotland for excluding it from participation in two hustings last week in connection with the Aberdeen Donside Holyrood by-election.The...
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