News Archive

26th April 2008 – Minutes of Committee Meeting 7th April 2008 The draft minutes of the committee meeting held on 7th April 2008 are now available. Please click here to view or download them from the "About Us" page.

12th March 2008 – Minutes of Public Meeting 3rd March 2008 The draft minutes of the well attended public meeting held on 3rd March 2008 at Highland Spring are now available. Please click here to view or download them from the "About Us" page.

5th March 2008 – Responses due to Public Petitions Committee The Public Petitions Committee agreed to seek responses by 5th March on the issues raised in the COBRA petition (see http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/petitions/or-08/pu08-0202.htm#Col468 ). Responses are due from the Scottish Government, including Transport Scotland, Network Rail, First ScotRail, Tayside and Central Scotland Transport Partnership and COSLA. All responses will be forwarded to COBRA for consideration and for a final response to be submitted by 4th April.

18th February 2008 – Online Donations now accepted! A new online donations facility has now been added to the website. Just click on the "Make a Donation" button and you can securely donate using Paypal, debit or credit cards. All donations will directly help with the campaign's promotional and lobbying activities.

Spring 2008 – STAG2 Appraisal TACTRAN will appoint consultants to undertake a detailed options appraisal of the Perth/Dundee to Glasgow/Edinburgh rail routes using the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (part 2) methodology. For more information on this process see the guidance at        http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/defaultpage1221cde0.aspx?pageID=255

3rd March 2008 – Comedy Tickets for Sale Bruce Fummey, the renowned Scottish stand-up comedian has provided COBRA with 20 tickets for the Just Laugh Comedy Club on 4th April in the New County Hotel, Perth. Normally, £9.00, the tickets can be purchased for £7.50 from any committee member or by emailing COBRA at info@cobra-blackford.org.uk. All proceeds will go towards campaign funds.

15th February 2008 – On the Line Sandy Marshall, known as Sannock, a singer, songwriter and member of the popular Perthshire  folk band, Tarneybackle, has written a new song dedicated to the reopening of Blackford station. The lyrics to “On the Line” can be found here and more information on Sannock can be found at www.sannock.co.uk

30th January 2008 – BBC News BBC News has reported on the initial consideration of COBRA's e-Petition by the Public Petitions Committee http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7215865.stm

3rd March 2008 – COBRA Public Meeting The next public meeting of COBRA will be held at 7.30pm Monday 3rd March in Highland Spring - everyone welcome. 29th January 2008 – Petitions Committee The recent e-Petition by COBRA closed on 21st January 2008. The Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee will consider the petition at its meeting in Committee Room 2 on 29th January 2008 at 2pm. The live proceedings will be televised and can be viewed at www.holyrood.tv/committee.asp 6th January 2008  - Rail Quiz The COBRA Rail Quiz was highly successful and raised £177 for the campaign. The Committee would like to thank all those who took part. The winner was Sabine Hallyburton from Blackford and the runner up was Morag Crawford from Larbert. The winner will receive a lunch for two, courtesy of Baxters. All the answers to the Rail Quiz can be found here . 6th February 2008 – Rail Quiz Winners   The COBRA Rail Quiz winner, Sabine Hallyburton, recently received her prize  - a lunch for two courtesy of Baxters. Also in the picture is Kris Gilzean of Baxters and Cobra Secretary, Jennifer Gordon.  COBRA would very much like to thank Baxters for their generosity and for their ongoing support for the campaign.

5th December 2007 New COBRA committee elected at the 2007 AGM. Click here for committee members.

11th December 2007 to 30th January 2008  COBRA launches an e-Petition with the Scottish Parliament. Please give us your support by signing the petition (National and Reional Transport Strategies, Principal Petitioner Mrs P Graham) at the link http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/list_petitions.asp

5th December 2007 COBRA Public meeting and AGM, Blackford Primary School at 7.30pm. Everyone welcome, come along to find out about campaign progress and how you can take part

5th December 2007  Launch of the new COBRA website www.cobra-blackford.org.uk

For more information or to contact COBRA, please email info@cobra-blackford.org.uk