Local company Bute Fabrics Ltd is one of 156 firms who were supported into new overseas markets last year by the international trade arm of Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

Caledonian MacBrayne is expected to confirm details of a nine-day saver return ticket aimed at visitors to Bute, to be available from Monday, May 20.

Signs are to be put up enforcing a ban on parking at a reversing point in a narrow Rothesay street.

The UK Garrison of Star Wars’ 501st Legion are to make an eagerly-awaited return visit to Bute later this month.

Bute’s councillors have failed to rise to the challenge presented by the island’s derelict buildings - and in particular the old Rothesay Academy.

Concerns over the provision of local authority care on Bute for some of the island’s most vulnerable residents were raised at Bute Community Council this week.

Children and staff at Apple Tree Nursery donned their onesies – on a beautifully warm and sunny Friday, we hasten to add – in celebration of National Onesie Day!

A medal awarded in memory of a Bute resident who died 96 years ago today (May 17) during the First World War was unearthed recently in a garden in the village of Furnace.

Talks aimed at bringing an end to the in-fighting and power politics among Argyll and Bute’s councillors appear to have produced a promising result.

Recreational land used as a work site by contractors on a Scottish Water improvement programme on Bute is still not safe for the public - a year and a half after the project was completed.

Rothesay could be set for a place in the record books, and you can help it get there - just by sending a postcard!

Would you like your business’s details hand-delivered to 3000 homes in and around Rothesay?

Works by Turner Prize nominee Lucy Skaer will form the 2013 contribution to Mount Stuart’s contemporary visual arts programme.

Planners at Argyll and Bute Council have recommended that the council rejects the application for three wind turbines to be erected at Ascog Farm.

The organisers of Scottish Apprenticeship Week want to see more Argyll and Bute businesses employing modern apprentices.

Caledonian MacBrayne is “actively working” on making free wi-fi available on its ships, The Buteman has been told.

A pilot VisitBute project using volunteers to provide island visitors with advice and information has been hailed a success.

Jessmay Morton, a past president of Port Bannatyne SWRI, put her free time to good use by scooping all the main awards at the organisation’s annual prize presentation this week.

Wemyss Bay is one of 25 railway stations in Scotland where free wi-fi access will be introduced by the middle of 2014.

Two crew-members of the yacht ‘Bravado’, who assisted in the rescue yesterday of two men whose yacht had capsized, popped into The Buteman office today to share their story.