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Ferryman’s job may be collateral damage of ethos in Eilean Eisdeal

[18.30 updated version] There are also community land ownership issues on the horizon.There is a man who has lived on Easdale for 11 years with his wife and 2 children, the youngest of whom goes to...

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Council supports Easdale Island ferryman

Argyll and Bute Council has considered the series of complaints by community company Eilean Eisdeal against the respected ferryman for Easdale Island at a meeting in Oban this afternoon.The meeting was...

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More shenanigans as Easdale puts it on the slate

In a continuing stand off on Easdale Island, testifying to the troubled relations between the Eilean Eisdeal company and the landowner, a consignment of slate skimming stones from Easdale appears to be...

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Easdale gearing up to welcome RIB owners for 2013 RIB Rendezvous

In what is becoming a major feature of the marine leisure year in Argyll waters, Easdale is getting ready to welcome all RIB [Rigid Inflatable Boat] owners for the 2013 RIB Rendezvous.For those who are...

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Easdale Island dump on a deadline

There was a meeting on Easdale Island on 19th December 2012 with Argyll and Bute Council’s planning department and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency [SEPA].This was to discuss the materials...

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Eilean Eisdeal Burns Supper

2013 is the 10th Eilean Eisdeal Burns Supper – on 2nd February – designed to follow in the footsteps of the previous years’ enjoyable evenings.For the event to be as successful as possible, it relies...

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Easdale Island dump: situation to be resolved by ‘change of use’ application

In the continuing issue of the unauthorised material dumped at the shoreside area of Easdale island known evocatively as the ‘Rush and Gush’, council planners met back in December 2012 with Eilean...

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Negotiations on Seafari Adventures’ proposed fuel facility at Ellenabeich

[Updated below 16th February] An issue has come up at Ellenabeich in Easdale which demonstrates the tightrope that has to be walked by both sides where a successful active enterprise exists in a small...

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Oban Lifeboat still on search for sinking fishing boat

[Updated below 10.30 26th April] Oban Lifeboat remains involved in the search for the fishing boat, reported to be sinking to the west of Easdale Island.At 13:08 today, the crew of the Lifeboat were...

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Marine carnival time at Easdale – 2013 Easdale RIB Rendezvous

They call the Easdale Rib Rendezvous ‘ERR’ – maybe trying to be, err, modest about so full-on a fabulous spectacle.The 2013 ERR [full-on fabulous spectacle] is on 3rd, 4th and 5th May and already looks...

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Easdale Island emergency evacuation exercise identifies fixed link issue

Earlier this year this year, Argyll and Bute Council’s Civil Contingencies Manager held a very useful  ‘table top exercise’ on Easdale Island, to co-ordinate protocols for the emergency evacuation of...

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Galley Aileach can be like this again – can you help?

Following Dee Rudiger’s article on the restoration of the replica highland galley, Aileach, here are some photographs of her in action in midway through the first decade of this century.On this...

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Councillor Semple clarifies the communications issue on Easdale and Luing...

Argyll and Bute Council’s Infrastructure Spokesperson, Councillor John Semple, has helpfully clarified the issue over officers communications with the slate islanders over recent changes to the...

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Easdale Island Burns Supper

2014 is the 11th Eilean Eisdeal Burns Supper, set to follow in the footsteps of the previous years’ enjoyable evenings.The event – in the unique Community Hall on the island and om Saturday 1st...

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Council puts employee on notice in major breach of its own policy on...

As is commonly known, the island of Easdale is a deeply divided community. For Argyll has researched and reported on this previously and it is too tedious to rehearse again.This factionalism, with one...

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Indictment of council handling of Easdale junta’s serial abuse of ferrymen

For Argyll has been working through several dossiers of papers in relation to the persistent harrassment and abuse by an unrepresentative local junta of a series of ferrymen employed by Argyll and Bute...

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Monty Halls at Easdale Island Hall tomorrow

Tomorrow – Friday 23rd May at 6.30pm in Easdale  Island Hall, Monty Halls, whose television series featuring exploration, adventure, challenge and wildlife, is giving a presentation. The little ferry...

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After 14 years Tiree will have a Community Council but can it speak with one...

And no, the Tiree Community Council has not resigned in its entirety to bring about this situation. They’ve just not needed to have a Community Council for fourteen years.The islanders’ habit of...

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2000th shout today for Oban Lifeboat – to a diver with suspected bends

Oban Lifeboat was requested by Stornoway Coastguard this afternoon, 12th July, to launch to pick up a diver from his mother ship, Sound Diver. between Oban and Easdale Island.The diver had surfaced...

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Tonight: Summer Salon Easdale photography event

Tonight, 16th August, Eilean Easdeal is hosting a free event  at Easdale Island Community Hall – 745pm to 945pm – showcasing work by contemporary photographers.Document Scotland is presenting their...

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