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Two things …
One - mind what you Google! The website of the old Arran Voice is still out there, but as you will know if you are reading this online, the new paper, Voice for Arran, appears on its new website, www.voiceforarran.com. If you hear of anyone complaining that they can’t find it, please point out that they may have been clicking on the old site that still comes up top of the Google list. We’re trying to shift this, but it should be no problem to anyone who makes sure to click on www.voiceforarran.com.
Two - for anyone reading Voice for Arran in its paper form. Someone with a computer has kindly printed off the copy you have in your hand. It’s a kindness that we appreciate immensely, as commercial printing is too expensive for us to consider at present – but the person who printed your copy of the Voice has bought the printer cartridges and provided the paper. It has cost them money. So we have to ask, would you be willing to chip in a few pence to recompense that person for his or her expenses? We’d like to provide a contributions tin at any place where you would normally expect to buy a newspaper, to drop a few coins in if you choose. This will not go to the Voice, but straight to whatever kind person has printed your copy.
We would like to get an A3 printer that will provide free paper copies of the Voice to circulate to doctors’ surgeries, the library and all public places, as a public service. Supplying them to every individual who cannot see the paper online (or prefers not to) is a separate and larger question.
What do people think about this? The computer-savvy can put their opinions on our blog page or e-mail us on info@voiceforarran.com, but you can also write to us c/o Burnfoot, Whiting Bay, Arran KA27 8QLDon’t bin the Twickers letter
If you live alone, watch out for a letter from NAC asking you to confirm that nobody else is sharing your house. If you don’t reply within two weeks, you will lose the 25% Single Person discount on your Council Tax. But the tricky thing is, the envelope containing this letter makes no mention of North Ayrshire. It has a Twickenham PO Box address on the back and looks like junk mail.
Why Twickenham? Because NAC is using ‘an external agency’, it says, to tell people to tell them they still live alone. Is it impossible for NAC to conduct this simple task itself? Or could this be an elaborate way of maximising Council Tax by snaring the unwary? We can’t imagine – but be warned. You must answer the Twickenham letter with all speed. Even if you are on Council Tax Benefit, you’ll still lose your 25% allowance if the people in Twickers don’t get your form back pretty damn quick.
Programme for Scottish Chamber Orchestra Concert
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s acclaimed string ensemble, SCO Strings, performs an exciting programme of music in Whiting Bay Hall on Thursday 10th June.
Chamber music is played without a conductor and is simply led by one of the players. In the Whiting Bay concert, celebrated Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen will direct the 24 strings while herself playing the lead violin part. Isabelle enjoys a varied career as both violin and viola soloist, as well as chamber musician and director/soloist. She was appointed Director of Music at the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra at the start of the 2009/10 Season.
Isabelle describes Mozart’s Serenata Notturna (‘Night Serenade’) as ‘a charming piece, perfect for opening a programme, and because of the scoring, with timpani and solo violin parts, it gives a special colour to an all-string ensemble.’ The concert continues with Taktakishvili’s Second Violin Concerto, written two years before the Georgian composer’s death in 1987. This, too, is an enchanting composition. Taktakishvili based much of his music on Georgian folk music, and it is immensely tuneful, full of thrills because of its sudden key changes. The highlight of the programme is Tchaikovsky’swell-loved Serenade for Strings - a ‘big hit’ for any string orchestra. Isabelle van Keulen describes it as ‘lots of fun to play, and very appealing for the audience.’
The SCO Strings performed in Whiting Bay Hall in June last year, and when people heard how brilliant the sell-out performance had been, there was much regret among those who had missed it. All the more exciting, then, to have this second chance to hear a world-class orchestra. The Whiting Bay concert starts at 8.00 pm, Thursday 10th June.
Tickets are on sale at Inspirations of Arran, Shore Road, Brodick, tel. 01770 302990. You can also book online at www.thebooth.co.uk . Tickets cost £12 for adults, £8 for senior citizens, £6 each for people with a disability and carer and £5 for children, students or anyone unemployed.
New music centres for Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute Council is setting up five new music centres as part of a reorganisation of their musical instrument provision in schools.
After-school music centres will be established in Campbeltown, Lochgilphead, Oban and Dunoon, and a Saturday centre will open up in Helensburgh.
In addition, individual solutions will be devised for the area’s island communities.
A Best Value Review of the Council’s arrangements for formal tuition in a range of musical instruments was started in March 2009. and its findings revealed significant inequality in access to tuition across Argyll and Bute and a restriction in the range of tuition on offer. It also highlighted the fact that music instructors currently spend a considerable amount of time each week travelling between schools, resulting in a reduction in the amount of tuition time available.
Councillor Isobel Strong, spokesperson for Education and Lifelong Learning, said the new music centres would address many of the concerns.
At present, musical instruments are available on loan from A&B Council for up to two years. However, this is only accessible to 30% of pupils currently receiving tuition due to the restricted number of instruments available. The Council has also now agreed to charge a nominal rent for the use of its instruments. This will create additional resources to repair, replace and increase the current stock.
In addition, in order to allow for sufficient flexibility in instructor timetables, the minimum number of instrumental lessons available to pupils per year is to reduce from 30 to 26.
Councillor Strong said: ‘These changes will result in greater equality of access to instrumental tuition … and a sustainable solution to the continuing provision and maintenance of our stock of instruments. We have so many talented young people in Argyll and Bute, and these measures will ensure that as many as possible of them will be able to take up formal music tuition in the years ahead.’
If North Ayrshire Council proposes a scheme of this kind, we would be delighted to know.
Strathclyde police taser plans ‘illegal’ (A Taser is an electroshock weapon that uses electrical current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles)
Amnesty International has said the decision by Strathclyde police to issue tasers to untrained officers is potentially illegal. Amnesty has received legal advice that the pilot scheme has failed to secure proper Ministerial authorisation for the arming of non-specialist officers, given that tasers are covered by the same legislation as other firearms.
The Green MSP Patrick Harvie said: ‘We accept that there are situations where armed police must be deployed, but this pilot scheme for regular officers in Strathclyde to have tasers is both inappropriate and potentially illegal. As the legal opinion obtained by Amnesty International shows, tasers are firearms, and as such can only be bought with Ministers' explicit approval, a safety check which has not been sought by Strathclyde Police.
‘The public have a right to know that armed police can be called upon in extreme circumstances, but they must also know that firearms are only being used lawfully and by properly trained officers. These are potentially lethal weapons, and must be managed responsibly. It is now time for this pilot to be halted, and for Ministers to accept that a fully armed police force would be a step in the wrong direction. The future use of tasers in Scotland must be kept within proper control.’
Do readers have views on this? We’d be glad to know what you think. Contact us about this – or anything else - on info@voiceforarran.com .
Notes
1. For more information on this, including a summary of the legal opinion obtained, please contact Amnesty International.
Siobhan Reardon
Tel: 0131 313 7010
Mob: 07855 196422
New face at the top for CalMac
Mr Archie Robertson OBE is to be the new Chief Executive of CalMac. Mr Robertson, 56, was for 20 years with BP, working in Singapore, New Zealand, Rotterdam and Brussels. Following that he was Operations Director at the Environment Agency of England and Wales, and most recently he has been the Chief Executive of the Highways Agency. He spent his early years on Skye, and still has strong family connections there.
Mr Robertson said: ‘David MacBrayne is a name I grew up with on Skye, and I am really excited to be joining an organisation with such a rich community heritage stretching back more than 150 years. I am greatly looking forward to playing a part in the next important chapter of its development, with NorthLink’s Northern Isles contract due for re-tender soon and the CalMac contract for the Clyde and Hebrides services up for grabs the following year.’
For more information see http://www.calmac.co.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-031new6m0.RefLocID-03107500x.Lang-EN.htm
Marine News
from John Kinsman
An unusual feature of the Fishing 2010 Exhibition at the SECC in Glasgow this weekend is the ‘Bush Tucker’ available on the Fishermen’s Mission stand. This is a trial of what food can be eaten raw if all else fails, and it includes such unlikely delicacies as fish eyes and raw shellfish.
(Our Marine Editor chewed his way through several of these offerings at last year’s show and survived the experience, but he doesn’t say whether he is up for trying it again!)
More at http://www.fishingexpo.co.uk/
The SeaWise Stability Monitor was developed by Hook Marine of Troon following a major study by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) that showed around 60% of vessel losses at sea are due to foundering or capsizing. The device provides early warning of the development of a potentially dangerous situation by continually monitoring the roll of the boat at sea. Ken Smith, Managing Director of Hook Marine said: ‘Perhaps the most significant finding in the MAIB analysis was the fact that while the accident rate in other industries has been dropping in recent years, there has been no corresponding reduction in the UK fishing industry. We believe the SeaWise monitor will play a vital role in protecting the lives of fishermen and will be providing demonstrations of it in action at Fishing 2010.’
Police have confirmed that the body found in the River Clyde last week is that of Mr Conn Nelis, who lived at Doune Gardens, Gourock. Mr Nelis had been missing for several weeks. His death is not regarded as suspicious.
Help to end secret lobbying
As most of us have known (or at least suspected) for years, big businesses have always lobbied the government in their own interests. This process secretly ensures that new legislation is rushed through or else binned, according to the way it affects the big boys. But last week the new government announced plans to introduce a register of lobbyists. If this happens, the register will force big business to be more transparent about lobbying. We'll have a right to see who is meeting whom, who they're working for and how much they're being paid.
But there are two remaining problems:
The time-scale hasn't been announced. Right now big business is still allowed to lobby in secret and call the shots from behind closed doors. The new plan needs to be passed into law quickly.
Big business pressure could change the government's mind again. Hours after the plan was announced a powerful group of lobbying firms vowed to fight it.
More ‘people power’ is needed to make sure we ban secret lobbying this year. If you want to put in your vote for transparency, click on http://www.38degrees.org.uk/ban-secret-lobbying-now
The 38 Degrees site provides you with a pro-forma letter to e-mail David Cameron and Nick Clegg, urging them to introduce the new rules as soon as possible. If you prefer, you can use the form to write your own letter. It’s very easy to do. You don’t even have to dial the address. And it leaves you feeling just a tad more democratic.
Drumlanrig Castle is the ancient Douglas stronghold and Dumfriesshire home of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry. Although relatively close to Arran, its spectacular 80,000 acre Queensberry Estate, complete with Country Park and Victorian Gardens, is not the easiest place to get to from the island – which is why Arran Civi c Trust has organised a trip to Drumlanrig on Wednesday, May 26th.
There are spare places open to non-members. The cost is £18 per person and includes coach travel and guided tour. To book a place e-mail noj673@tiscali.co.uk or phone 810659. Have a look at Drumlanrig on the Internet if you want a taste of its delights – the Castle is brimming with centuries-old heritage and culture, period furnishings, fine art and antiques.
The Lochranza Choir's Summer Concert promises some great delights on the coming Sunday, May 23rd. With music ranging from the Fauré Requiem to Les Misérables, it also features flute and cello in a beautiful number called A Song for the Mira. The concert starts at 7.30 in Lochranza Hall. All welcome.
Bill Morris
Countless people in Whiting Bay and beyond were saddened this week to hear of the death of Bill Morris, who had struggled with cancer for several years. Bill brought joy to many an audience through the comedy parts he played in the Whiting Bay Drama club, where he and Julie Nelson presided over a talented group of actors, notably in the Summer Play that ran throughout the visitor season. We hope to print a full obituary in our next issue, but meanwhile, Bill’s kindness and his quirky sense of humour are greatly missed.
Buy Machrihanish for £1?
by John Kinsman
The MOD is prepared to sell the 1,000-acre former RAF Machrihanish site near Campbeltown – for just £1. A community buyout of the ex-airfield, one of Scotland’s biggest Cold War sites, was proposed on Tuesday May 18th. A postal vote is now under way in South Kintyre on the proposal. The result is crucial, as half of the electorate needs to vote to go ahead if the bid is to be valid.
Although there was little opposition to the idea at the initial meeting, supporters are worried that the turnout may be too low. While there is no organised opposition, there are sceptics, who either want to know more or question what the buyout will actually achieve.
The RAF Machrihanish site includes a 10,000ft (3,000m) runway - one of the longest in Europe. Since the military pulled out in the ‘90s, much of the area has been empty, and supporters of the community bid hope the buyout could give them the chance to develop the site and create jobs. The alternative is for the MOD to sell the site on the open market. Highlands and Islands Airports leases part of it for use as Campbeltown airport. This would not be part of the sale.
Flying Dustbins at High School
Neither vandalism nor gales last Saturday, just a phenomenal
film about the Fulmar, the ‘flying dustbin’ of the ocean. Raymond Besant (pictured), who single-handedly shot the film and recorded the narration, was in the Community Theatre to introduce the showing. Anyone who has tried to keep a camera focussed on a fast-flying bird will know what a fine skill this is, specially in stormy conditions, and Raymond’s extraordinary photography, much of it on the isle of St Kilda, was breath-taking.
Jigsaw Pieces on stage
Two plays, Pieces of a Jigsaw and Someone, Somewhere, were performed last Friday and Saturday at the Community Theatre and at Whiting Bay Hall, attended by 35 and 45 people respectively. After each performance, the audience joined in a discussion about the warning signs of depression that could, if left unnoticed, result in the tragedy of suicide. Different issues were raised each night, and a lot of views were expressed. Everyone agreed that the project had been very worth while.Young Film Fund
If you are under 18 years old and keen on film-making, here’s a good opportunity. First Light Movies provides grants that enable young people to participate in all aspects of film productions. It has already enabled over 12,000 young filmmakers to write, act, shoot, light, direct and produce over 800 films. The funding is available to organisations such as schools, youth services, community and voluntary groups that work with young people aged between 5 and 18.
Every year First Light Movies provides approximately £700,000 of grants through three funding streams. Its Studio Awards can provide grants of up to £30,000 for between two and four films of up to 10 minutes. Script Awards can provide grants of up to £3,000 for script writing projects that team young people with script professionals. The Pilot Awards can grant up to £5,000 for one short film of up to five minutes in duration. This year’s Fund is due to be open for applications on August 10th 2010, so you have time to get a proposal together. The closing date is October 5th 2010. Click this link for details:
http://www.firstlightonline.co.uk/funding/young-film-fund
Go Green for free!
In the wake of the coalition government, the Scottish Green Party has offered a year's free membership to any disaffected voter leaving the Liberal Democrats or the Labour party. The offer will run over the next fortnight until midnight on Wednesday 26th May.
The discount membership form is available here:
http://www.scottishgreens.org.uk/uploaded/joinSGPbargain.pdf
Or e-mail communications@scottishgreens.org.uk. Or you can talk to James Mackenzie, Communications Coordinator of the Scottish Green Party, on his mobile,
07909 933 074.
No new Heathrow runway
While we’re on about things green, here’s a triumph to report. There will be no third runway at Heathrow. Local residents have been up in arms about the proposal ever since it was first mooted, and Greenpeace supporters have combined by the thousand in co-ownership of an inconveniently central patch of runway turf, right where the air-liners would touch down. Cynics will pooh-pooh any such influence and claim that the sheer cost of the project made the incoming government quail, but there is a certain amount of green jollity going on.
Dish of the Week
By Anne Adams
Chocolate Strawberry Sandwich
This cake combines strawberries and cream with a lusciously moist chocolate sponge.
INGREDIENTS
60g cooking chocolate, chopped
200g plain flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ teaspoon salt
100g caster sugar
75g butter or margarine
225ml buttermilk2 tablespoons orange liqueur, such as Grand Marnier
1(284ml) pot double cream, whipped
2 punnets fresh strawberries
60g plain chocolate, chopped
Preparation method
1. Preheat the oven to 200c/ Gas mark 6. Grease and flour 2 (23cm) sandwich tins. In the top of a double boiler, heat 60g cooking chocolate, stirring occasionally, until chocolate is melted and smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool to lukewarm.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt and sugar. Rub in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Blend in buttermilk and melted chocolate. Divide cake mixture into prepared tins.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. When cool, sprinkle cakes with orange liqueur.
4. Reserve 8 to 10 strawberries and slice the rest. Place one cake on a serving plate, top with half of the sliced strawberries and half the whipped cream. Garnish with whole strawberries. In the top of a double boiler, heat plain chocolate, stirring occasionally, until chocolate is melted and smooth. Drizzle over the strawberries.
Lamlash Golf scores
Thursday 13th May
Weather conditions reduced the entry and affected the late starters.
Seniors medal from box tees 8 played who had the best of the day. C.S.S. 61
4 magic 2's from I.Grant, J.Templeton, H.McArtur & D.Crawford.
1st H.MacArthur 77-18-59
2nd I.Grant 83-22-61
Summer Cup 22 played 2 magic 2's from D.Robertson & M.Wren
1st N.Mitchell 76 16-60
2nd D.Robertson 69-5-64
3rd J.Murchie 68-2-66 also Scratch
Saturday 15th May
Lamlash were hosts to 16 of the SDGP group (Scottish Disabled Golf Partnership.)
Among the group were men with lost limbs, poor sight and totally blind. A stableford competition was held with members of Lamlash Golf Club. Some of the disabled, despite their handicap, would put able bodied folks to shame with their attitude to life.
Sunday 16th May
Scratch Cup & 2nd Qualifying for the championship. C.S.S 64
1 Magic 2 by Norrie McIntyre. Scratch 69 by Neil Young.
1st Todd Jameson 73-13-60
2nd Neil Young 69-4-65
3rd Lee Girbow 70-5-65
Fixtures:
Every Thursday Seniors and Summer Cup, arranging times with starter.
Championship Qualifiers quarter finals to be played on Saturday 22nd
I.Murchie V E. Evans, D.Robertson V S.Campbell, N.Young V A.Wales & D.Cameron V L.Girbow.
Sunday 23rd Medal ballots at 0930 & 1300
Letter from a blind golfer
Jim Henderson supplies a report of the visit to Lamlash by members of the Scottish Disability Golf Partnership, and since then he has received a wonderful letter from their chairman, Jim Gales MBE. Although completely blind, Mr Gales writes with tremendous warmth and good cheer, and Jim Henderson thought readers would like to share in the pleasure that his letter brought.
Dear Jim
I am writing on behalf of the Committee, members and coaches of the, following our recent visit to your golf club.
We had a most enjoyable trip to Arran, with a special day at the Club, in good company and in some great weather. What more could we have asked for? The course was a good challenge to our members and coaches, and from the feedback I have already received, special mention has been made of the warm welcome, the condition of the greens and the
friendly relaxed atmosphere in the clubhouse. Our compliments to your staff and green keepers.
Accompanying us that day were several new members, who were very impressed with the event, set-up and standard of the Club. They have also stated that they would be recommending the Club to their friends.
The visit incorporated one of our 2009 Scottish Order of Merit competitions for players and coaches, and to stage it on such a highly prestigious course was very welcome. I would be most grateful if you could pass on our thanks and appreciation to all your colleagues at
the Club, who made our visit such a memorable and friendly affair and we look forward to a future visit.
Thank you.
Jim Gales MBE
Chairman
See more at their website at http://www.golfblogger.co.uk/
More local newspapers!
Despite the mutterings of last year that said the local press was doomed, this year has in fact seen an upswing in the number of local newspapers. The Newspaper Society’s chairman, David Fordham, said in his review of the year, ‘Britain’s local media has confounded the doom-mongers and is emerging from the worst advertising recession in living memory with cautious optimism for the future.’ He pointed to a string of launches since the start of the year and added that the picture in terms of advertising revenues across the industry had ‘improved markedly’ in the past six months. Can’t be bad!
See NS Annual Review 2009-10 and Statement of Accounts for 2009 if you are the number-crunching kind
Government Croft Register Plan contested
The Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) warned this week that the Scottish Government plan for a compulsory register of croft-land could lead to many traditional crofting rights being lost.
The proposal for a Register of Crofts to be compiled and held by Registers of Scotland is part of the controversial Crofting Reform Bill, debated in Parliament on May 13th. The Parliamentary committee who scrutinised the Bill questioned the need for there to be two Registers of Crofts, as did MSPs from across the parties in the debating chamber. There is an existing register held by the Crofters Commission, which needs to be completed and would benefit by up-grading to include croft maps, and crofters claim that this will be all that is needed. But the Government is insisting that a second register needs to be compiled, at crofters’ cost, [our italics] to put crofts on to the land register held by Registers of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Crofters have been legally advised that the Keeper of this register is highly unlikely to record all the information that is pertinent to crofts. These include grazing rights, hill share and souming (number of livestock allowed), peat cutting rights, the position of nousts (where boats are kept), rights of access and so on. Norman Leask, SCF’s Parliamentary spokesman, noted that if a title is exchanged without these rights recorded, they are lost forever. He held that the Government’s insistence on a compulsory, more narrowly based mapping of crofts showed ‘nothing short of a colonial attitude’. As he put it, ‘Government officials saying, “You will do it or else” in this age of supposed enlightened government does not go down well at all. Crofting communities are capable of mapping themselves should they wish to.’
Mr Leask concluded, ‘The minister has conceded that she will hold off her dogs for a year, but if there is going to be a compulsory trigger-activated process then a postponement of at least five years is needed to allow communities to map themselves. I will be going down to meet with the Minister next week and this will be top of the agenda.’
John Tilbury of Arran High School interviewed the winners of the Youth Speaks competition, and took the photo that appears here. He says, ‘It was a very hyper interview – they kept going off on tangents and shouting at each other. Quite funny. His report follows:
Asked how they worked towards the competition, Iona immediately said, “Optimism”. They explain that with every round they changed the presentation slightly. And they worked on it every lunchtime at school. What was hard was getting the timing right, and the projection and pronunciation
The subject was The Afterlife, so they talked about Karma, reincarnation, and Egyptology, including how Pharaohs were buried. And they put in the gag “…and don’t forget to pack your servants and relatives!”
The question, “Do you like Stratford-on-Avon?” brought a very enthusiastic “YES” from them.
Iona commented on the beauty of it by daylight, with the old housing architecture. (Also, the funny drunk side to it at night time, when they saw some crazy things – but they didn’t say what, just laughed.) They ate at a thatched pub that reminded them of the Harry Potter Universe. The prize was £50 gift vouchers, mainly for clothes shops “the only ones that count.”
Asked for their best memory of this year’s Youth Speaks, Chris said, the thatched pub meal. Iona liked the first night at the hotel, when she said there was a bed fight, and Katharine bagsied a good bed. Katharine and Catherine loved going to see Antony and Cleopatra at the Courtyard Theatre afterwards. And they’d like to point out that “CHRIS IS AWESOME.”
The four come across as having strong chemistry: the three zany girls creating playful arguments with rational Chris who,though just as wild, tries to keep things under a sense control without spoiling the atmosphere. A great team. No wonder they won!
Festival showcases the wonderful wildlife of Arran
This week has seen the 5th Arran Wildlife Festival get underway with a record number of events and a record number of bookings. Visitors and locals alike have been able to enjoy a wide variety of events that celebrate the exceptional wildlife of the Isle of Arran.
Treats on the programme included popular minibus safaris around the island to visit wildlife hotspots, day hikes to see deer and other mountain wildlife, and a film about the plight of the Fulmar hosted by RSPB Scotland and presented by the film maker himself, Raymond Besant.
On Sunday the Family Funday proved a big attraction to young and old with music, farmers market, a tea room, burgers from Arran Mountain Rescue and lots of activities for children. Highlights here included water tanks stocked with marine and freshwater creatures that could be handled and even viewed under a microscope, lots of creative activities, and the perennial favourite- bird and bat box making.
Arran’s primary schools also received a special visit from the Ranger Services accompanied by Sage the elf, and a myriad of lively woodland puppets.
Many of the events were lead by local volunteers, as well as special guests from the mainland who came over to share their expertise on subjects as diverse as lichens and mosses, moth trapping, and the patient art of seawatching
The festival was well supported by the island’s businesses, with many local sponsors and partners including the Auchrannie Resort, the Co-operative, Altachorvie B&B, Island Cheese, the Glenartney Hotel, Taste Of Arran, ArranShand Business development, Arran Woodfuels, Dyemill Lodges, Arran Adventure, Arran Power and Sail, Ocean Breeze Ribtours and the Folk Festival who provided the fantastic music at the Fun Day.