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Work has started on five play parks in and around Campbeltown, thanks to an £186,000 share of £938,000 of funding, allocated to PվɫÇéƬ and Bute, by the Scottish Government.

Tarbert’s newly refurbished playpark will be named for the late John McAlpine, the former councillor who played a key role in campaigning to ensure the project was able to secure the funding it needed to make it a reality.

Funding from HITRANS, totalling over £1.5m, will be used to develop improved connections between Islay and Jura, and Seil and Luing.

A huge amount of work is ongoing in PվɫÇéƬ and Bute to tackle the area’s housing emergency.

PվɫÇéƬ has nominated four island projects in the area for a share of funding from the Scottish Government’s Islands Programme.

At a meeting of the council’s Environment, Development and Infrastructure committee, councillors agreed to introduce the new grant scheme to support owners and tenants of empty business properties to return their properties to productive use.

PվɫÇéƬ, on behalf of Food Standards Scotland (FSS), is making local shops aware that they may have received and are selling Jolly Rancher confectionery products manufactured by ‘The Hershey Company,’ in Canada, some of which contain mineral oil.

Staff, children and young people from every school across PվɫÇéƬ and Bute have worked hard to put children’s rights at the heart of school life, where children feel respected and their talents nurtured. The hard work has now paid off with all schools achieving Gold, Silver or Bronze UNICEF Rights Respecting Awards.

The next critical stage in replacing Balliemore Bridge, Glen Lean, Cowal, took place recently.

PվɫÇéƬlors today agreed a statutory education consultation, as part of proposals to relocate the existing 2-18 campus to a new location to the southern edge of Tobermory next to the A848 (Tobermory South).