There were differing views about the three per cent rise in council tax on the Courier Facebook page. Here are a selection:

Heather Bellshaw: ‘No streetlights, no pavement and no speed limit through our village despite asking for a number of years. Verges are cut once a year, rubbish everywhere, three weekly rubbish uplift .... and we get a rise in council tax? What exactly are we paying this for?’

Darren Bloomfield: ‘When I first purchased my house here it had been empty for over a year. I couldn’t move in straight away due to work commitments. I was actually charged double council tax. So in effect Argyll and Bute Council were getting paid three council taxes.’

Jana MacKellar: ‘We have a second home in the town that we inherited. My husband grew up here and we spend no more than two months of the year in Campbeltown, so you can understand how we feel penalised by this increase.

It’s totally disproportionate to our use of the local services and if anything, we help sustain the local economy purchasing from local producers and eating out.

‘Perhaps there should be a reasonable rebate for people in our position? Just because we have a second home here doesn’t mean we are made of money.’

Derek Adams: ‘Bit of a joke eliminating second home discount of 10 per cent. Typically they use less council services and already pay a premium for this. Suspect even more will be up for sale and reducing the income to Kintyre from visitors.’

Elizabeth Johnson: ‘Maybe they will reinstate the weekly bin collections, although as a business we should be getting them anyway.’

David Bassett: ‘Good. Social care and education need the money.’