Will the Internet of Things erode privacy?
Is collecting data from the Internet of Things another step on the way to a nanny, Big Brother state?
Columnists
Columnists
Google guitarist in tune for OAPs
Guitarist Arran McAllister volunteered at a Campbeltown event.
Columnists
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK, February 1, 2019
In the olden days, Candlemas was the day when children brought candles to school so that the classrooms would have light on dull days.
Columnists
Leader: Karen’s donation is selfless and inspirational
Our front page article, about Karen Thomson Hickson’s journey through bone marrow donation, is eye-opening and inspirational.
Columnists
A musical education
There is much about the Grammar School’s progress watching Jamal and Jâms perform was equally an education.
Columnists
Thought for the week, January 15 2019
Children are growing up into a country divided and are certainly not learning the art of skilful conversation or respectful debate from our politicians.
Columnists
Cycling event treads in runner’s tracks
If the End of the World (EOTW) event proves popular, May could be bookended by national level events.
Columnists
Thought for the week, January 4 2019
However Sister Wendy, the self effacing nun who lived in poverty, unexpectedly became a TV celebrity.
Columnists
The 21st century’s final teenage year
Disruption has been the major theme of the 21st century.
Columnists
Community rallies round
Kintyre and its diaspora once again proved this community is very giving during the past 10 days.
Letters
Letter: Support the RAF Benevolent Fund
Put simply, the RAF Benevolent Fund looks after the RAF family.
Letters
Letter: District news disappoints
Are we to have a regular feature on the wonderful works and world of the all-conquering Alastair?
Letters
Letter: Thanks to the graveyard grafters
Perhaps in the future the council should make sure it clears this stretch of road.
Letters
Letters extra: Cut non-statutory services
It is time that the council put ever reducing statutory services first.
Letters
Letter: Still the wrong H Shapiro
They hailed from Glasgow and had three children, a boy and two girls, who attended the same school as I did.
Letters
Letter: Fake hospital consultation?
When there are genuine consultations they will be ignored because people will think it is a waste of time as the decision has already been made.
Letters
Letter: Named person scheme is ‘complex and confusing’
The panel’s chair also outlined concerns that this complexity could damage support for children and families.
Letters
Letter: Kintyre needs a modern connectivity system
The communities of Kintyre need a modern connectivity system, fit for purpose, if this area is to have any credibility in the big wide world.
Letters
Letter: Kintyre Recycling Limited information
It was Rory Colville, not Donald Kelly, who put the motion to Argyll and Bute Council to increase the funding of KRL.
Obits
OBITUARY: Rev Catriona Anne Hood – ‘Gracious and gentle, funny and faithful’
Occasionally in life, if we are fortunate, we meet someone who makes a difference.
Obits
Obituary: Regius professor and Scottish law commissioner
Many former students have tweeted their sadness at the news of his death. One wrote: ‘Who could ever forget the lesson from a tale that began: ‘Imagine I wished to enter into a contract to purchase some black silk sheets…’
Campbeltown
Crafting group’s tribute to a ‘brave’ member
Not only did Mary benefit from the recreational event, the group was also greatly inspired by her positive manner, and her wish to help others by giving something back.
Campbeltown
Maurice McMillan Duncan: August 29, 1954 – August 11, 2017
Obituary for musician, composer, adjudicator and tutor
Campbeltown
Farming pillar was was a truly good man
The farming community in Kintyre has lost one of its best-known figures.
Obits
Adam Bergius 1925-2017
A NAVY man who feared battleships and volunteered for ‘special service of a hazardous nature’, surviving the Second World War, was laid to rest in Kintyre last weekend.