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Innovation-rich Cowalfest gets going: Friday 9th October

Argyll’s Cowalfest – an innovative event from the outset in its marriage of walking and the arts, is always one to serve up surprises. The 2009 event is no exception.Topping a programme of walks,...

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See it: Seil Natural History Group’s survey walk to Dunollie

This is about learning to look at where we are, at the UK’s richest biodiversity hosted in Argyll. The level of expertise and commitment amongst the 100+ strong Seil Natural History Group combine to...

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Seil Natural History Group field trip in Glen Gallain

The always active Seil Natural History Group – must partly be why it has an astonishingly large membership (over 100) – is off on its February midweek field trip on Tuesday 23rd – in Glen Gallain,led...

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Spring Fayre, Cairndow Village Hall

The Cairndow community at the head of Loch Fyne is running a Spring Fayre at Cairndow Village Hall on Sunday 28th February 2010, from 11.00am to 3.00pm.Stalls include books, craft, soaps, plants, local...

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Argyll and Cowal lose the Bruces

Two key assets in Argyll’s and Cowal’s cultural tourism industry have quietly slid away south, back to the Scottish Borders.Russell and Dorothy Bruce, founders and annual engines for seven years of...

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Hydro-power, fairy hills and gunpowder: field trip to Loch Oude

Twelve members of the specialist Seil Natural History Group met at the north end of Loch Oude, in a small car park by the bridge for a field trip walk to Melfort.  The track started directly from the...

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Crarae Garden’s summer programme – and get Scrufts

The summer programme for the dramatic Crarae Garden in Mid Argyll has been unveiled by the National Trust for Scotland – with plenty of events to keep visitors of all ages entertained across the spring...

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Spectacular gift for 2012 from Scottish Natural Heritage

Adding to the compelling results of its 15 subsea surveys undertaken in 2011. covering 2,000 square miles of Scotland’s sea bed,. Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has another present for those...

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Gardens Day at Arduaine

The National Trust for Scotland’s Arduaine Garden, on the shores of Loch Melfort, is hosting a special Gardens Day, in support of Scotland’s Gardens Scheme on Sunday 13th May.Begun more than 100 years...

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Ardrishaig en fete

The sun shone for Ardrishaig Gala this afternoon. With marquees, stalls, crafts, plants and goodies of all kinds and every conceivable thing for children to swing from, climb up, slide down and splash...

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Argyll and the Isles tourism and partners launch free Art in Nature workshops...

As the Year of Natural Scotland comes to a close, Argyll and the Isles Tourism’s Nature’s Paradise initiative – with its partners, Artmap Argyll, Forestry Commision Scotland and the Glorious Gardens of...

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Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society honours Stonefield Castle’s Head Gardener

Stonefield Castle, the baronial estate on the shores of Loch Fyne, is enveloped by an abundance of species of plants, trees and flowers within it’s expansive 60 acres of woodlands and gardens. This...

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Gigha Hotel’s all day meals make a day trip a delight

‘God’s island’, they say, is the meaning of ‘Gigha; the little inshore seasnake of an island on the west side of Argyll’s Kintyre peninsula.Yesterday, 26th June, it was hard to argue with that, on an...

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Dalmally Grow Wild Community Orchard hosts Beechgrove Garden

This week, the Glenorchy & Innishail Community Orchard near Dalmally played host to the ever-popular BBC2 gardening programme, the Beechgrove Garden.When members of the Community Orchard team heard...

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