11th April: George Berry chairing hustings for Oban Wards 4 and 5
(Updated 11th April below) Tomorrow night, Wednesday 11th April, George Berry is chairing hustings for Oban Wards 4 and 5 in the coming local authority elections. The event runs from 7.00pm-9.00pm and...
View ArticleOban South and the Isles to ready for by-election as Councillor Hall stands down
[Updated 8.45 below with personal statement from Councillor Hall] Argyll and Bute Council Ward 4 will have a by-election following the decision by Councillor Fred Hall to stand down as a councillor.The...
View ArticleFred Hall now a free man
Yesterday, 14th March, Councillor Fred Hall completed outstanding work for his constituents, cleared his desk, returned his council kit, had his councillor’s official email account stopped – and walked...
View ArticleMore concerns on SNP candidate selection for Oban Ward 4 by-election
For Argyll has learned from informed sources that the Oban Branch of the SNP is divided over the choice of candidate for the by-election coming for Oban South & the Isles [Ward 4] on 22nd May...
View ArticleCandidates and issues in Oban South and the Isles by-election
[Updated 11.58] There are five candidates for the vacant seat for Ward 4 of Argyll and Bute Council – Oban, South and the Isles, to be contested on 22nd May 2014, at the same time as the Europe-wide...
View Article4 candidates for Oban South and the Isles by-election today: the team roles...
When For Argyll published profiles of four of the five candidates for the Oban, South and the Isles by-election, on 15th May, we set our readers a challenge: to look at the nine team member types...
View ArticleCouncil by-election result: Labour takes first seat in Argyll and Bute...
[Updated below] In a personal and political triumph, Neil MacIntyre has won the Oban South and the Isles by-election [Ward 4] for a seat in Argyll and Bute Council.Neil MacIntyre is a familiar...
View ArticleNew councillor, Neil MacIntyre, clarifies position he will adopt at council
Readers have been wondering aloud whether newly elected Labour councillor for Oban South and the Isles, Neil MacIntyre, would:ally himself to any existing group in the chamber,or act independently,...
View ArticleScottish Labour responses to Oban South and the Isles and Fife council...
[Updated] Scottish Labour, locally and nationally, has issued press releases marking the breakthrough for the party in Argyll with its first seat in Argyll and Bute Council in fifteen years, won...
View ArticleMacGregor to stand in Oban North and Lorn by-election
Oban businessman, John McGregor, is to stand as an independent candidate in the forthcoming by-election for Argyll and Bute Council’s Ward 5 – Oban North and Lorn, which follows the resignation of...
View ArticleAndrew Vennard selected by Scottish Conservaatives for Ward 5 by election
Oban solicitor, Andrew Vennard, who stood recently for the Scottish Conservatives in the Oban South and the Isles [Ward 4] by election, has been selected by his party to represent it in the forthcoming...
View ArticleSNP in serious split in Oban North & Lorn by election
First of all, there are five candidates nominated for the Oban North and Lorn by-election on 17th July 2014, for one vacant place on Argyll and Bute Council. They are, in alphabetical order:Gerry...
View ArticleOban SNP horrified as local MSP sets up event competing with next week’s...
The Oban branch of the SNP has not had its sorrows to seek – and from its own party. Since the local elections in 2012, when it took four of the eight seats in the two Oban wards of Argyll and Bute...
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‘Voice of Oban’ a clear SNP smear attempt on Councillor Roddy McCuish
A long anonymous tract was circulated electronically yesterday – as ‘The Voice of Oban’, graced by no names but working hard to smear the now Independent local Councillor and former SNP Leader of...
View ArticleSNP lose another Argyll & Bute councillor
[Corrected below] SNP Councillor John Semple of South Kintyre has stood down from Argyll and Bute Council.He has give us this personal statement: ‘I am still a member of the SNP but no longer a...
View ArticleWhat has Argyll & Bute Council done with the mini-count data from...
Some Scottish councils chose to release local breakdowns of the vote in their area on 18th September 2014 in the Scottish Independence Referendum.Amongst those who did were:Glasgow City...
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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