Rothesay, royal burgh, coastal resort, and chief town of the island of Bute, Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Buteshire, Scotland, lying on the island's eastern coast near the entrance to the Firth of Clyde.
Even from that precarious position, as Blair had anticipated, the new first minister made like Teddy Roosevelt, using his official residence, Bute House, as a bully pulpit to build support for the SNP and independence.
Salmond remains coy about which minister gave him the nod and in what way, but soon afterwards the first minister convened a meeting to plot a devo max option at his grand official residence, the Georgian Bute House on Charlotte Square.
The first, on the Kyles of Bute, serves scallops, bacon and champagne for breakfast; dinner could be venison sourced by a local stalker.
Apart from the wild sea and landscapes, there are castles, gardens and important prehistoric remains to visit, while a ferry network gives easy access to the nearby islands of Bute, Arran, Islay, Jura and Gigha.
In Argyll and Bute Alan Reid puts out press releases about the Campbelltown ferry and Dunoon pier, though it was his counterpart at Holyrood who issued the immortal "Introduction of beavers a waste of public money".
LD 38.4%, Con 30.3%, SNP 15.7%, Lab 13.6% Seats where Lib Dems could lose out to the Tories, SNP, or Labour: Argyll and Bute Liberal Democrat majority 3,431 20100).
The Marques of Bute, who built the city's docks, also left his architectural mark.At the peak of coal production in 1913, more than 10m tonnes were exported from Cardiff's docks.
On the Isle of Bute, one toilet boasts attendants dressed in Victorian costume.
Two other world champions did not take part in the tournament: the highly rated Lucian Bute, a Romania-born Canadian holding the International Boxing Federation IBFF) belt; and Robert Stieglitz, a Russia-born German who is the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) champion.
