Machrihanish airbase: minefield of nightmares: Part 2
Yesterday we exposed the disturbing manoeuvres in the Ministry of Defence proposal to grant a new and much more advantageous lease – in advance of sale – to Highland and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL),...
View ArticleHolyrood question from McGrigor on Machrihanish Airbase Community Company
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands and Islands MSP, has just put a question in Holyrood on issues around Kintyre’s Machrihanish Airbase Community Company’s initiative in working to secure as a community asset...
View ArticleBallott on Machrihanish airbase community buy-out underway
The Machrihanish Airbase Community Company has now got ballot papers out to most people in the PA28 6 voting area. The result of this community ballot will shortly determine whether or not the planned...
View ArticleAre establishment cards stacked against Machrihanish community buy out?
As we are progressively doing the forensics, so to speak, on the first batch of Freedom of Information (FoI) material we have had from the Ministry of Defence, we have come across an illuminating and...
View ArticleMcGrigor contacts Defence Secretary on Machrihanish Airbase situation
New Shadow Environment Spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives, Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands MSP, attended Friday’s Open Forum in Campbeltown organised by the Macrihanish Airbase Community...
View ArticleHuge turnout and all-but-unanimous YES vote for community buy out of...
The Machrihanish Airbase Community Company (MACC) members will not be expecting to sleep tonight.Scotland’s biggest ever community ballot has just resulted in a massive YES vote, a success for the...
View ArticleTwo major winners last weekend: Mach 1 Stages Rally and Kintyre community
Reports coming in from a range of sources testify to on the outstanding success of the first – but not, surely, the last – Mach 1 Stages Rally held at the now community owned Machrihanish Airbase at...
View ArticleAlan Reid visit supports Machrihanish Airbase campaign for United Kingdom...
Alan Reid, Argyll & Bute’s hard-working MP, paid a visit to Machrihanish Airbase west of Campbeltown in Kintyre last Tuesday.The MP was there to hear about the plans being put forward in the...
View ArticleIgnition on. Countdown to start of Kintyre’s 2015 MACH 1 Stages Rally
Only in its second year at Machrihanish Airbase on the Mull of Kintyre, the MACH 1 Stages Rally – a revving success first time out, has already become one of the most talked about dates in the rally...
View ArticleCars, team back up wagons and food vans on A83 for weekend MACH 1 Stages...
The A83 south to the Machrihanish Airbase track for the MACH 1 Tarmack Stages Rally tomorrow and Sunday, 11th and 12th July, has seen a trail of cars on trailers, back up team trucks and food vans...
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