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Olympic ceremony budget doubles but not even auditions until February 2012

The Prime Minister today (5th December 2011) doubled to £82 million the cost of the opening and closing ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.This announcement came as choreographers...

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Queen star of Olympic opening ceremony

Daniel Craig’s James Bond marched authoritatively through the corridors of Buckingham Palace and was ushered into a private study where a a couple of corgis were doing rollies on the floor.A woman was...

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London 2012: how Britain came to feel good about itself

These have been Sebastian Coe’s games.He drove the successful campaign to get the 2012 Olympic Games for Britain. From that award onwards, he has wrestled the nation to the floor to make the Games the...

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Closing the 2012 Olympics

For Argyll published its response to the London 2012 Games (London 2012: how Britain came to feel good about itself) late on the night of Saturday 11th August, when the nation was taking a breath and...

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Literally uplifting Paralympics opening ceremony

A full Stadium for the London 2012 Paralympics has had an opening ceremony uplifting in every possible way.At its start and finish, athletes actually flew – visually beautiful and a poignant and...

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Labour calls for answers from Government on CalMac and future of Clyde and...

Scottish Labour has called for an urgent ministerial statement this week on recent developments within ‘Caledonian MacBrayne’ and its associated companies.This follows three matters which the Labour...

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Russell describes three year delay in west coast ferries contract as ‘a...

And of course, this is all Westminster’s fault – the utterly tedious, one-whinge-fits-all universal let-out clause of the moment.Argyll and Bute’s MSP has issued the following press statement,...

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Sochi Winter Olympics a triumph for Russia and for sport

The closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games at Sochi saw Russia get the last smile in the wit and chutzpah with which it put the pettiness of the western European media in place.Our lot chose...

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Patricia Ferguson asks about those evacuated during Red Road Flats blow-down...

[Updated below 13th April] Labour MSP, Patricia Ferguson, who grew up in Glasgow’s now even better known Red Road Flats, has raised an issue around their proposed mass demolition as a high point in the...

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Am dram wardrobe for Scottish team’s Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony...

The men are going to look like gay fantasies of lairds in Caledonia; and the women like rural hicks in the post-war 1940s.The costumes chosen for the Scottish team to wear at the Opening Ceremony of...

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Has Jilli Blackwood got friends at the BBC?

There is widespread perplexity at the heist launched on the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony by the announcement from BBC staff, supported by unions Bectu and, of course, Unite – that they will...

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Opening ceremony tonight and a big day at the Games tomorrow

[Updated below 23.35] The Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Commonwealth Games is tonight at Celtic Park – and on television [BBC 1] from 20.00 – 23.00. Then, tomorrow, 24th July, the opening day of the...

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No nationalist politicisation of the Games?

It was revealed late last night that the Ministry of Defence [MoD] had been approached with a request that the Res Arrows – who overflew Glasgow and Celtic Park in the Commonwealth Games opening...

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Golden Gates opened – a bridge to the Benmore experience from Glen Massan

Sir Peter Hutchison, Chairman of the Younger [Benmore] Trust [left above] was at Benmore Botanic Garden on Frid12th June 2015 to mark the return of the‘Golden Gates – one of the most cherished...

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