The company's six Scottish sites are in Dunoon, Falkirk, Glasgow, Greenock, Kilmarnock and Rothesay.

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However Gourock to Dunoon, where even CalMac failed to bid, remains to be settled.

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Roughly half of the 25, 000 or so spectators at the Cowal gathering in Dunoon are tourists.

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The singer will then play in Inverness, Dunoon, Dunfermline and Hawick, before moving on to further dates in England.

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Webhelp already employs almost 3, 000 people in Scotland and operates call centres in Larbert, Greenock, Kilmarnock, Dunoon, Rothesay and Glasgow.

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Tavish Scott MSP, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, challenged Mr Salmond over the government's handling of the contract for the ferry service between Dunoon and Gourock.

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In the event, the only private operators who expressed interest in the more than 20 routes - the offshore company V Ships, and Dunoon's Western Ferries - pulled out.

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Relatives of Ms McCulloch, originally from Dunoon in Scotland, have said she had gone to Aceh to research a book on the conflict there, where rebels are agitating for an independent state.

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