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| Arran’s future generation helped to rekindle the island’s Gaelic roots last week in the ninth annual Feis Arainn, held at the Lamlash community school. After four days of music and drama w... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008  Read More |  Comments (0) |  |
| Sheila Newyln and Philip Robson were married on Thursday 31st July by registrar Susan Barr in Lamlash Registry Office. The couple chose to be married on Arran as Sheila has been holiday... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| Dylan the Shetland pony will be appearing at the Highland Show next weekend, to encourage new volunteers to help with Riding for the Disabled. Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| A scout group from Nijmegen in the Netherlands found themselves in deep water last week when their tents were flooded in Glen Rosa. In the early hours of Friday morning, sometime between 2am and 3am, ... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| A motley crew won the 13th Tom Sorbie boat race last Sunday in eventful conditions which kept the gathered crowd guessing right until the winner was announced. Ten boats of radically different sizes t... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| Arran Annual Show was held yesterday (Wednesday) and Niall McMaster took time out of his shearing schedule to put on a sheep shearing demonstration in Sandy’s Field at Cladach. In his contract w... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| Hillphones 2008 is a service providing walkers with up to date and accurate information on seasonal stalking activity in Arran's mountain areas. Co-ordinated by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), it cov... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| Coastguards, RNLI, the police and CalMac combined in a multi-agency training exercise last Saturday. Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| The state of the Lamlash playing field at the High school still gives rise to some concern. Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| Children and parents enjoyed a big fun day at K:A Campus Arran last Sunday, with a whole host of activities on Sunday afternoon to help show people around the new community school building. Maureen Sm... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| News from the Blues reports drink-driving, the discovery of the driver who damaged the Merkland wall and the loss of two Buddhas from a Lochranza garden. Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |  |
| An exhausted jet-skier was rescue from the Firth of Clyde by an inshore lifeboat last week after his jet ski suffered engine failure and he jumped into the sea to try and pull it to the shore. It was... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| Sir David Steel today pledged his support to Ross Finnie in his bid to be elected Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Many other party officials and members have added their support to Mr Finnie... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| Three fishermen died in the early hours of Friday morning August 1 when a horrific fire engulfed their trawler while they slept. The victims, two Filipinos and a Lithuanian, were staying on board the... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| Kenneth Gibson MSP is currently attending an international conference in Mexico on AIDS. He met with the Terrence Higgins Trust on Wednesday to prepare for the conference — and was surprised to ... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| Scott McMurray , Arran's representative of the Scottish Youth Parliament , e-mails us to say that 'nothing has happened at all' about the Youth Centre at Lamlash High School. Youth Worker Nikki Harris... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| The Social Enterprise Academy is offering FREE training for any community enterprise that wants to maximise its effectiveness. Contact Nicola Welsh on H&I@theacademy-ssea.org Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| The EU proposes to give law enforcement and security agencies in the USA free access to private information about all EU citizens. This will include personal data from banks, credit card companies and... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| A Freedom of Information request by the Herald newspaper revealed that 70% of the Ayrshire and Arran Health Board’s doctors are working longer hours than those stipulated by the Europea... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| The 20th of August will see the first ever visit of the Salvation Army’s Household Troops Band (HTTB) to Arran. They last visited Scotland in 2001. This band is unique in that it is an amalgamat... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| The Scottish Government is still analysing responses to the consultation on the proposed No Take Zone (NTZ) in Lamlash Bay. The consultation was announced in January this year after 14 years of campai... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
| Ayrshire and Arran’s local health board received an extra £4.75 million of Scottish Government capital funding this week to boost the area’s dental facilities. Health Secretary Nicol... Published: Thursday, 7 August 2008 Read More | Comments (0) |
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