US Naval units at sea as Operation Joint Warrior ships assemble at Faslane
Air, sea and ground ‘assets’ from allies and NATO forces are already arriving at Argyll’s Faslane to take part in Operation Joint Warrior 092 in Scottish waters and coastal areas. This is a coalition...
View ArticleHMS Argyll to Babcock yard in Rosyth for 12 month refit
The Type 23 Frigate, HMS Argyll, is now at Babcock’s at Rosyth in Fife for a year-long refit that will employ 120 staff at the Yard.She will have a new weapon control system, new electronic guns, an...
View ArticleExercise Joint Warrior versus conservation warriors
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) is warning that the move by Exercise Joint Warrion into the approaches to the Moray Firth threatens a pod of bottlenose dolphins.The Society says that...
View ArticleMull earthquake Sunday 13th
Just as well it wasn’t Friday 13th or it might have been worse.Argyll’s Isle of Mull got hit by an earthquake yesterday morning (Sunday 13th December) at 5.39am. The island trembled and Dave Sexton,...
View ArticleThe aircraft carriers: flog one, share one?
The Strategic Defence Review is offering us a positively gladiatorial sport – watching the MoD as shape-changer, desperately trying to square the circle in its attempts to get whatever it is that it...
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One real issue and some strange arguments against Cove Community Wind Farm
The Cove Community Wind Farm proposal in the Rosneath peninsula seems to have become the butt of ‘tall poppy’ syndrome in a variety of ways.It is facing objections from all over the place, some...
View ArticleExercise Joint Warrior 131 in operation
The first of the two annual multi-national combined military exercises known as ‘Joint Warrior’ is in operation.Its formal start date is 15th April but the exercise was already engaged in an ‘attack...
View ArticleOban lifeboat in rescue of canoeist from Loch Leven – in silence from MCA on...
Oban lifeboat was on a shout to Loch Leven at 14,30 on Saturday 26th April when an over-turned canoe was reported seen two miles from Kinlochleven at 2.30pm.Coastguard Rescue teams from Fort William in...
View ArticleRobert Wakeham: What’s cooking around our coasts?
Tuesday evening’s fire on a ship carrying radioactive waste across the Moray Firth appears to have been put out without causing serious harm, and the ship towed to safety, but how risky are the current...
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