Tribute to Colin McRae with 1,300 Subarus in motorway convoy south
In a stunning tribute to Colin McRae, Scotland’s World Champion rally driver, the McRae Gathering, a rolling convoy of around thirteen hundred Subarus growing eventually to twenty miles long, will take...
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This Is Who We Are
We’re about to describe a journey so start seeing it in your head. The first step is a drive east to Calgary, then north to Airdrie, back south to Calgary, then north west to Banff and south west...
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This Is Who We Are – photographs from the journeys to find out
For Argyll has published a feature article – This Is Who We Are – on the exhibition of that name, the most inspirational of the main Homecoming Scotland 2009 commissions. Its creators are Graeme...
View ArticleMcGrigor puts Inveraray & District Pipe Band on the record
Stuart McMillan MSP, put down a Scottish parliamentary motion to congratulate Simon Fraser University Pipe Band on its Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championship success and to express concern on Strathclyde...
View ArticleWorld Solo Drum Championships
The World Solo Drumming Competition is this Saturday (24th October) at Glasgow Caledonian University. Four – well three and a half - Argyll Pipe Bands are sending competitors – Inveraray &...
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Inveraray’s Stuart Liddell wins The Glenfiddich Piping Championship
We have it on good authority that there are 2 minibus loads of ‘highly elated’ supporters of World Champion Inveraray & District Pipe Band’s Pipe Major, Stuart Liddell, on their way home from Blair...
View ArticleAnother prestigious piping award for Stuart Liddell and a win for Willie...
Stuart Liddell, now the effective world champion solo piper after winning The Glenfiddich 2009 Solo Piping Championships last Saturday, is on a roll.Yesterday he won the Bratach Gorm – the blue banner,...
View ArticleHaddington Pipe Band see Inveraray off in Hands Up For Trad Awards
As they say, you can’t win ‘em all. Inveraray & District Pipe Band, whose stunning achievement in 2009were regarded with open-mouthed awe, could not muster enough votes to win the Pipe Band of the...
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Vancouver 2010: Scotland posted missing
‘Why is Scotland not here?’, a friend in Vancouver asked me at the end of the first week of the Winter Olympics. I explained that we were there: that nineteen members of the fifty- two strong British...
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Helensburgh’s Gordon Reid: one to watch for 2012 and on Monday night
When UK-wide newspaper – the Daily Telegraph – puts you in their top ten ‘one to watch for 2012′ list, it means something. It means you’ve made your mark.18 year-old Gordon Reid from Helensburgh,...
View ArticleResults: Scottish Cup Open Knockdown Karate Tournament
In a first for Lochgilphead, spectators were treated to plenty of action during some great fights (including knockouts) at the Mid Argyll Sports Centre in Lochgilphead on Saturday 6th March during the...
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Mid Argll Pipe Band releases The Mid Argyll Collection
The independent-minded and innovative Mid Argyll Pipe Band has just released The Mid Argyll Collection – a unique collection of Highland Pipe Tunes, compiled by Rod Buchanan as a labour of love over...
View ArticleThree Argyll pipers in the hunt fot the 2010 Glenfiddich
Argyll has three pipers in the ten competing for the 2010 Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Championships. The event – effectively the world championships for solo pipers, is held on 30th October...
View ArticleKatherine Grainger: another golden post box headed for Scotland
The splendid Katherine Grainger has at last got the Olympic Gold with Anna Watkins in the Women’s Double Sculls – that has eluded – winning by a length and a quarter from the rated Aussie pair in...
View ArticleSusie Wolff sets ninth fastest time in F1 Pirelli Young Driver testing
Susie Wolff, Williams F1 team development driver, tested at Silverstone yesterday, 19th July, in the full current race-level track car. She set the ninth fastest time over the three day testing in...
View ArticleShame on BBC for relegating Paralympic Anniverary Games to Radio
The BBC has learned nothing from the huge success of Channel 4′s screening of the London 2012 Paralympic Games – with the BBC having made no serious effort to screen these themselves.One year on, we...
View ArticleTriumphant Ascension concert for Inveraray & District Pipe Band
A packed audience in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall saw dancing in the aisles on Wednesday night, 14th August, at the Ascension concert from Inveraray & District Pipe Band.They also enjoyed a...
View ArticleSteven McWhirter of Inveraray & District Pipe Band wins World Solo Drumming...
Steven McWhirter, who leads the drum corps of the Grade 1 Inveraray & District Pipe Band, last weekend held his title of World Champion Solo Drummer by winning the 2013 World Championships.This was...
View ArticleSusie Wolff promotion meshes with return of Williams as major F1 contender
In another promotion, and with her husband Toto at Mercedes for the last year, no snide hints at nepotism can cut the mustard in the Oban-branded Susie’s Wolff’s move from Development Driver to Number...
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