Candidates 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 ArticleBit of fun at last night’s Mull hustings for Oban, South and the Isles...
An audience of around 25 at Craignure Village Hall last night, 6th May, saw in action all five candidates for the by election on 22nd May in the council’s Ward 4, Oban, South and the Isles.The...
View ArticleOban South and the Isles by-election: Neil MacIntyre in profile
Neil MacIntyre has, in what must seem like a previous incarnation, worked for 20 years for Argyll and Bute Council. These days he works night shifts at Tesco. His wife works in the health sector. One...
View ArticleOban South and the Isles by-election: John Macgregor in profile
Almost as soon as we started talking, John MacGregor said: ‘I always want to be Number One, to be the best, to win. I’m not anywhere to be Number Two.’This wasn’t said in relation to the forthcoming...
View ArticleOban South and the Isles by-election: Andrew Vennard in profile
Andrew Vennard is a young solicitor who came to Oban in 2006 to do his two year professional apprenticeship and has since chosen to make his home in the town, working with E.Thornton & Co.He is the...
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 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 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 ArticleFor Argyll challenge to Oban North and Lorn by election candidates
[Updates on acceptances below.] There are five candidates in the Oban North and Lorn [Ward 5] by-election for Argyll and Bute Council – which takes place next week on Thursday 17th July.In the Oban...
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...
View ArticleOban FM interview tonight with all Ward 5 by-election candidates
Oban FM are transmitting at 22.00 tonight, Saturday 12th July, an interview by Campbell Cameron with all five candidates for the Oban North and Lorn [Ward 5] by election for a seat on Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleVoting and political analysis of Ward 5 by-election results
At the end of a hard fought vote in this ward between the winning Independent, John MacGregor and the second placed candidate, Labour’s Kieron Green, Mr Green lost the by-election for Oban North and...
View ArticleSNP gain a councillor at Argyll and Bute
SNP councillor for South Kintyre, John Semple, stood down from Argyll and Bute Council after last week’s independence referendum.But in the seesaw of local politics, while the SNP have lost one...
View ArticleFailure of affordable housing initiative on Colonsay: the Corncrake’s view
Yesterday, 1st October, For Argyll published a statement to the press from the Colonsay Estate, setting out its frustration at the failure of an initiative to see affordable housing built on the island...
View ArticleFor Argyll challenge to candidates for Thursday’s Oban North & Lorn by-election
[Updated] The three party-based candidates for this Thursday’s [23rd October 2014] by-election for Ward 5, Oban North and Lorn, of Argyll and Bute Council, have one thing in common.They have all...
View ArticleWard 5 by election candidates’ responses to For Argyll’s two questions
Question 1‘You have recently lost an election in this and/or the adjoining Oban South ward. What did you learn from that experience that you have used to develop your campaign for this election?’Kieron...
View ArticleOban North and Lorn by-election count under way: indications, analyses, result
[Updated 12.00 below] The count for the Oban North and Lorn by-election result for the vacant seat in Ward 5 of Argyll and Bute Council, is under way.Indications are that the SNP candiddate Iain S...
View ArticleSouth Kintyre by-election
The next by election to Argyll and Bute Council is in the South Kintyre ward, following the resignation of former councillor, the SNPs John Semple.This will be on 11th December; and the SNP, whose seat...
View ArticleHow to kill one of the most important businesses for Oban: Arygll and Bute...
Argyll and Bute Council’s most pressing responsibility right now and into the future is economic development related to repopulation.Oban is a still lovely but progressively shabby and patched up town,...
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