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McGrigor slams HBOS on Islay businesses left beached
If you were a business on the Isle of Islay, would you see the offer of access to a Call Centre in Edinburgh as an acceptable exchange of your local bank, with a manager to consult?Idiot question,...
View ArticleIslay business banking crisis: updates from Mather and McGrigor
Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP and Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, is in touch with the Bank on this urgent matter and sees value in the suggestions For Argyll has made in a previous article on...
View ArticleBank’s latest message to Islay: ‘amputees get used to it’
Yes, this headline is tasteless but it is the heart of the message Susan Rice, Managing Director of Lloyds Banking Group in Scotland, has sent to Gus Newman of Stormcats in Islay.The matter in question...
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Record results: the 2010 Stormcats Islay Tope Fishing Competition
The annual StormCats Islay Tope Fishing Competition took place on Lochindaal last weekend – in variable conditions.Over the 21st and 22nd August there were heavy swells to start each day but improving...
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Islay’s StormCats’ innovation recognised in 2010 Crown Estate Marine Business...
StormCats, the Islay boatbuilder whose name says everything about the sort of boats they build, was given The Crown Estate One to Watch for Excellence in a Marine Business Award 2010.The presentation...
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Islay Marine Centre announces a new Stormcats Tope Hunter
Islay Marine Centre, run by the ever innovative Gus Newman of Stormcats, has brought out a new version of its hardy staple, the Tope Hunter’.The new boat – pictured above – is a 5 metre fitted with a...
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