School Dinners stooshie: young Martha Payne has the right pedigree
No one can say that nine year old Martha Payne doesn’t know what she’s talking about.She is the Lochgilphead Primary School pupil who has the council on the back foot over the grim and miserly school...
View ArticleIt’s goodbye from Martha as Council switches off her dinnercam
Young Martha Payne went to school today as usual – and was taken out of Maths class to go to the Head Teacher’s office.She was then told she was not allowed to take any more photographs of her school...
View ArticleCouncil issues prompt response on Martha Payne’s NeverSeconds clampdown
(Updated below) The new administration at Argyll and Bute Council has reacted swiftly to the widespread concern at the attempt to gag a young child whose interest in what she was given to eat at...
View ArticleMartha Payne and NeverSeconds hit fund raising target: new kitchen for Mary’s...
A spokesperson from the children’s food aid charity, Mary’s Meals, has just thanked young Martha Payne who, through her school dinners blog, NeverSeconds, has actually completed her self-set fund...
View ArticleNew Council Leader’s unambiguous clarification on Dinnergate
Councillor Roddy McCuish, the new Leader of the new administration of Argyll and Bute Council has issued a press statement to clarify, without equivocation, the council position on matters relating to...
View ArticleNeverSeconds: time to let Martha Payne recover anonymity
One might say that young Martha Payne’s points-and-pics in the saga of her school dinners has led Argyll and Bute Council to an unexpectedly neat wheeze - how to stimulate economic growth in the...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council ‘Martha’s Blog’ press release under scrutiny
Try this.How not to write a press release, Argyll and Bute Council Style.
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Mary’s Meals and friends say ‘Thank you’ to Martha and friends
Hungry kids in Malawi, who now have the chance of a brighter future thanks to the incredible efforts of nine-year-old Martha Payne and her friends, have sent a heartfelt message of thanks.Martha and...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute’s new council: First ‘term’ report
New administration. New coalition. New broom. How have they done at the end of their first ‘term’, now that we’re in the summer recess?A great deal of hopes for better were – are – riding on the new...
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Scottish Gas and biomass ‘Carry’ MACPool to success
Who were these members of the Mid Argyll Community Pool [MACPool] Dolphins Swimming Club listening to so intently this morning, 3rd June?It was someone very well worth listening to – and they knew...
View ArticleSNP in Argyll and Bute post May 2012: Post mortem Part 2
What happened to lose the SNP so golden an opportunity in Argyll, their first ever leading role in local political management?Throughlack of faith in its local representatives,lack of familiarity with...
View ArticlePlayschool for backward councillors tomorrow
We have been given sight of a hilarious email from Argyll and Bute Council’s Executive Director for Customer Services, Douglas Hendry, to all elected members.This follows the Audit Scotland report...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council on track to lose £80k per annum to Waitrose
The opening on the outskirts of Helensburgh last Autumn of the elite supermarket Waitrose’s 6th store in Scotland is costing Argyll and Bute Council dear.In a patter of behaviour familiar to any of us...
View ArticleUpdate on Waitrose profit at council expense
Our earlier article on the impact on Argyll and Bute council finances in relation to the provision of school dinners at Hermitage Academy of the adjacent new Waitrose store showed pupils abandoning...
View ArticleWill Argyll and Bute Council change its name?
Yesterday, 13th March, the agenda for the next administration meeting, scheduled for Tuesday 18th March, was circulated to councillors.A stand-out item is the proposal that the council should change...
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