Russell welcomes Transport Minister’s public commitment to vehicle and...
In the best possible news for Dunoon, Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson MSP gave a public commitment to a combined vehicle and passenger service on the Dunoon / Gourock route in the Scottish...
View ArticleHas Stewart Stevenson now slugged the Scottish Government with the Scottish...
A major visceral issue for Scotland is what happens to Scottish Water – and the name of the company says it all. It is actually still ours – not sold, or not yet, to some multinational beyond Scottish...
View ArticleLibDems call for Scottish Government statement on Dunoon-Gourock ferry
Following the publication of CalMac’s 2011 summer timetable with the Dunoon-Gourock service missing, Alan Reid, Liberal Democrat MP for Argyll & Bute, and Alison Hay, the party’s prospective...
View ArticleFreedom of information forces disclosure of Transport Scotland inactivity on...
Would you describe two emails in six months between Transport Scotland and the all-important European Commission as ‘continuing to work with the European Commission on that very important...
View ArticleProfessor Neil Kay on what has driven his FoI pursuit on the Dunoon-Gourock...
(Updated in comment from Professor Kay.) It was recently revealed in the national press and reported by For Argyll that Professor Neil Kay had discovered, through Freedom of Information (FoI), that...
View ArticleTransport Minister resigns
We have just had it on good authority that Scotland’s Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson has resigned. (16.00 11th December 2010).This appears to be true – and the irony is that this was not the...
View ArticleLabour pressures Scottish Government on Dunoon-Gourock ferry
Andy Kerr, shadow Finance Secretary, has, in a Sunday Herald exclusive today, put pressure on the Scottish Government to bring the new contract for the Dunoon-Gourock ferry service to completion.He has...
View ArticleMcGrigor runs out of patience on Dunoon ferry as Kay looks for world’s most...
Patience understandably lost with the continuing absence of action on resolving the future of the Dunoon-Gourock ferry service, Jamie McGrigor has challenged new Transport Minister, Keith Brown to ‘get...
View ArticleToday’s Herald article on Dunoon-Gourock ferry situation wide of the mark
Today’s (17th February 2011) edition of The Herald carries a major feature on Page 8, headlined ‘Race is on to stop EU rule sinking vital Clyde ferry’.This, of course, relates to the Dunoon-Gourock...
View ArticleDunoon ferry story: no centre-to-centre vehicle ferry but why was tender left...
When Dunoon folk talk about the ferry service from Dunoon to Gourock, they’ve not simply got an old ferry service in mind. They mean a vehicle and passenger service.And the Scottish Government has now...
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McGrigor asks how community enterprise could participate in Dunoon-Gourock...
Jamie McGrigor has engaged with the announcement that the long delayed tender for the Dunoon-Gourock ferry route will not be for a replacement of the vehicle and passenger service but will be...
View ArticleHerald reveals depth of Stewart Stevenson’s mendacity
Today’s (23rd February 2011) edition of The Herald is carrying an exclusive by David Ross and Damien Henderson which gets light into some more of the dark corners of the tenure at Scotland’s Transport...
View ArticleLord Robertson witnessed former Transport Minister’s covert offer to Western...
It is now in the public domain that former Transport Minister, Stewart Stevenson, made a covert request to Western Ferries to run some of its services between McInroy’s Point and Dunoon.It had been...
View ArticlePublic meeting on Dunoon Gourock Ferry tender
There is to be a public meeting on 8th March 2011 at 7.30pm in Dunoon’s Argyll Hotel with speakers:David Stewart, Labour Highlands and Islands MSPProfessor Neil KayMick Rice, Labour candidate for...
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Souter’s firm withdraws from Dunoon-Gourock ferry tender?
We understand that Brian Souter’s firm, Highland and Universal Securities Ltd, has withdraws from the tender process for the 6-year passenger-only ferry service between Dunoon and Gourock.This is said...
View ArticlePost-Dunoon meeting, Mick Rice foregrounds Dunoon ferry issue
Mick Rice, Labour candidate for the Argyll and Bute seat in the Scottish Election 2011, was one of the speakers at the recent public meeting in Dunoon on the tender issue for a passenger only...
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The Dunoon passenger ferry experience
Yesterday (8th August 2011) we bench tested the new Argyll Ferries passenger service between Dunoon and Gourock – and checked out the wrap around experience of using it.It was an absolutely gorgeous...
View ArticleCabinet Secretary for Infrastructure to invite Dunoon ferry interests to meeting
Following Argyll and Bute MSP, Michael Russell’s representations to him of the outcome of the meeting on 9th December of various interests in the Dunoon ferry provision, the Cabinet Secretary for...
View ArticleTransport Minister answers McGrigor’s questions on ferries and A83
Jamie McGrigor MSP recently submitted a series of written parliamentary questions to Transport Minister Keith Brown on matters to do with the Dunoon-Gourock ferry, the tendering of the CalMac ferry...
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Western Ferries: new sailings, inflation rises in fares – and protection for...
[15th March: Updated below with Western Ferries' comparative fares] In a ‘good news’ announcement, Gordon Ross, Managing Director of Western Ferries, has earlier today announced that from 25th March,...
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