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• Mothers' Day: Season Kick Off
• Birks Hydro Scheme: What Now?
• Is THIS Democracy?
• After Passion & Participation Fail - What Then?
• The Silent Majority: Democracy (In)action
• Taymouth: Shaping Up for Community Transfer?
• Cyclists' Publication Seeks ACRE's Views on Etape Race
• Bogged Down in Aberfeldy
• Councillor's Response to His Suspension
• Bungee Jumping - and Pitlochry High Street
• Destination Management: Spring Forward for Highland Perthshire
• C'llr Lyall Suspended from P&K SNP Group
• Common Good Fund Rejects Birks' Hydro Application
• Curling Rink Go Ahead Despite 'Ghetto' Fears
• Call for Local By-Laws to Prevent Wild Camping
• Local Broadband Concerns Raised with ScotGov
• Huge Population Increase Forecast for P&K
• Cycle Attack Enquiry: Unfinished Business
• Business Guild Idea for Highland Perthshire Takes Hold
• Taymouth: A Community Version
• Why One Incomer Wants To Invest In Taymouth
• We've Got Your Number: Consultation Warning
• Voices Raised Against Latest Pitlochry Town Centre Proposals
• The Demise of Pitlochry?
• Recent Archives
• Sainsbury's Survey Days: Preliminary Response Figures
• Pitlochry Town Centre: Developments on Hold?
• Village Community Enterprise Failure
• P&K Clearance for Garry Brige Bungee Jumping
• ScotGov Accused of 'Deceit' Over Powerline
• Housing Bill Curb on Right to Buy
• Sainsbury's Pitlochry Event
• WW2 Military Honour for Aberfeldy Native
• Etape Sabotage Charges Dropped Against Local Man
• Local Collaboration Call for 2010
• Warning Bells To Politicians Ring in 2010
• Local Golfing History Query
• Exclusive Local Offer on Single Cask Bottle
• Hogmanay Aberfeldy
• Pitlochry: Crown or Clone?
• Shipwreck Research Request
• Curling Rink Dilapidation
• Supermarkets' Impact Needs Examination: MSP
• MSP's Rail Freight Consortium Call
• Tourism: Perthshire Figures Down
• Local Destination Management Meeting: Outcome
• Santa in Pitlochry
• Broadband: More Local Connections Announced
• Birks Hydro: Mounting Tide of Disapproval
• P&K Chief Chooses to Slur ACRE
• Think Local, Buy Local, Be Local: Campaign
• Our land - Our Asset
• Dutch Researcher's WW2 Quest
• Birks Hydro: P&K Lease Decision Deferred until February
• GrowBiz Reaps Results for Business Startups

• Taymouth Estate
• Taymouth: A Community Version
• Why One Incomer Wants To Invest In Taymouth
• Taymouth Castle Estate: Down to Business
• Shaping Community Ambitions for Taymouth Estate
• Community Buyout Momentum Growing
• Securing A Future for Taymouth
• Taymouth Estate: Community Interest Lodged
• Architectural Heritage of Taymouth Castle
• Time Ticks on Taymouth
• Taymouth Tantaliser
• Taymouth Estate Proposal: Update

Pitlochry Developments

• Alliance Formed Against Latest Pitlochry Town Centre Proposals
• Pitlochry Town Centre: Developments on Hold?
• Pitlochry: Crown or Clone?
• Pitlochry Town Centre Planning Application
• Pitlochry Residents Muster on Planning Issue
• Planning & Pitlochry People
• Pitlochry Centre Developments: Meeting Report
• Extraordinary Meeting in Pitlochry
• Pitlochry: What The Developers Have Planned
• Pitlochry Town Centre Developmen
• Curling Rink Development Plans

•                     Cyclerama

• P&K Chief Chooses to Slur ACRE
• Cycle Race Attack: Police Seek ACRE's Help
• A View From the Top Deck
• Tempers After Cycle Race Sabotage
• MP in 'Local Etape Discussions'
• ACRE Statement Post 2009 Etape
• Etape Fallout: Call for Moderation
• Etape: Post Tack Attack Reaction
• Etape 2009: Appeal to ScotGov Minister
• Cycle Race: Local FAQs
• One Vision of the Etape in AD 2020
• Etape Defence: 'Poppycock'
• Etape Defence: 'Poppycock' (2)
• Etape Defence: 'Poppycock' (3)
• ACRE: 'A Vociferous Minority'
• ACRE Vows to Stop 5 Years of Road Closures
• P&K 'Whitewash': ACRE Accusation
• Closed Roads: ACRE Petitions Scottish Parliament
• Road Closure Orders Invalid, ACRE Confirms
• Race Organiser's Protest Rejoinder
• Protest Protocol: Advice from ACRE
• Cycle Race Closures Maybe Illegal
• P&K Forced to Probe Cycle Race Misrule
• Cyclist Kevin's Conscientious Objection
• ACRE Steps Up Campaign For Open Roads
• Battle Continues to Prevent May Closed Roads
• Campaign Launched to Prevent 'Highway Robbery'
• P&K Juggernaut Clears Way for Etape 2008
• Etape, The Council & Local Business
• 'Road Map' Drafts for Etape?
• Cycle Marathon's Future: Mystery
• Etape 2008?
• Marathon Meeting: Etape Event Impact Gathering
• Cycle Event 2008? Consultation
• Informants' Comments from the Poll Forms
• Local Survey Puncture's Etape's Hopes
• Local Independent Poll on the Cycle Event
• Cycle Event Impact: Report
• Etape Evaluation: Local Poll Result Details
• Etape: Damp Squib AND Short Fuse
• 'What Was It Lycra For You, Then?'
• Most 'Open for Business' During Cycle Event
• Unsilenced Cycle Event Sceptic
• 'Statistics' of Support for Cycle Event
• Is Council Chief Peddling Blind?
• The Unwanted July Cycle Story
• Local Raises a Cheer for Cycle Event
• Cycle Event: Road Closure Legitimacy Questioned
• P&K Responses to Comment Cycle Event Questions
• Soft Peddling Towards The Cycle Event
• Cycle Event: Presbytery Calls for Legal/Political Action
• Cycle Event:' Support is Growing' Claims P&K
• Marathon Anger Mounts Locally Towards P&K
• 'Cycle Marathon A Done Deal’: Fury at Meeting
• Kirk Criticism of P&K's Cycle Event Handling
• Bell Rings Over Cycle Event Questions
• Public Meeting to Address Cycle Event Issues
• Event Organiser's Response to June Anxieties
• 'June' Doom Road Lock in Highland Perthshire
  
  

  The Local Autonomy Issue

• Seeing The Wood From The Trees
• The 2009 Challenges that Face Us in Highland Perthshire
• The Future Could Be BRIGHT for 2009
• Flogging Off Our Forests
• Seasonal Stocktaking: Local Resources
• Highland Perthshire - Greater Than The Sum of Its Parts
• Mark Ruskell MSP on Localism Revisited - The Greens View
• Disnaeland: Local Crisis and Centralisation
• Reflections On Our Local Governance by Robert L Smith OBE
• Murdo Fraser MSP on the Local Autonomy Issue
• John Swinney MSP on the Local Autonomy Issue
• Greater Local Autonomy for Highland Perthshire?
• Community Empowerment & Citizen Involvement
• 'Beware the Term Land Tax' Warns Shirley-Anne Hardy
• Land, Culture and Identity by Deorsa Mac Iain Deorsa
• 'A Great Iniquity' by Leo Tolstoy
• The Acres & The Hands
• The Land for the People - Henry George
• The Causes of Business Depression by Henry George
• Local Income Tax or Local Empowerment -  Shirley Anne-Hardy
• FREE DOWNLOAD: The Land Question 42 page PDF
• Bioregion Description of Highland Perthshire
• Liaison in Europe for Heartland 'Bioregion'?
• Scotland and the Bioregional Movement
• Local Autonomy & The Democratic Deficit
• Farmer & 'Farmers' - The Great Hide-Up
• Land Ownership: Beyond the Book Review
• Reaction to Land Ownership Book Review

• Land Ownership & Poverty - Book Review

• Manifesto Points for Local Independents

• A Charter for Rural Communities

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