Tayinloan teenager stands up to cancer
Kayleigh McNeill, whose aunt Davina died three years ago, is planning a sale and raffle.
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Net Fisherman’s Mission’s catch of the day
Each piece has been uniquely decorated and the full collection, which will be auctioned off, is in a variety of styles.
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Salvation Army fundraiser
The usual attractions greeted visitors who braved the wind and rain.
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Quizzy Rascals are drama quiz champions
After an evening of quizzing hosted by the inimitable Helen Gilchrist, £315 was raised.
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Dramatic quiz night guaranteed
‘Helen Gilchrist will ask an eclectic mix of questions, so it is guaranteed to be a fun-filled evening.’
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Race night’s punters raise an RNLI jackpot
Australian videoed horse racing helped raise the stakes for Campbeltown’s lifeboat at a masonic race night.
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Supermarket bags boost youth football
‘CDJFA is the largest voluntary community group in Kintyre with approximately 180 children from three-years-old to 17 attending sessions.’
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Mairi Semple fund’s 2018 round-up
Volunteers and past and present committee members are the backbone of Kintyre’s only completely local cancer charity.
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Dunaverty Divas take Tayinloan quiz title
Quizmaster Helen Steel fired a range of general knowledge questions to visitors from around Kintyre.
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Tayinloan’s taxing quiz for play park funds
The consensus in the hall was that it was a very challenging quiz, with any queries about answers settled by the child who wrote the question.
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Photograph of the week, April 12 2019
Steve said: ‘I thought the tractor was a bit more interesting than the ruin given the strong sunlight.’
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American wall hanging with Jaegar style
Pocket linings preserved from Campbeltown’s former Jaegar factory have found a new lease of life in a wall hanging.
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Town hall art show canvassed many visitors
Staff at Campbeltown Town Hall hung paintings not stockings at its first ever art show in the week before Christmas.
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Grogport features in Lochgilphead’s Jolomo show
His work has been purchased by celebrities including Madonna, Sting, Simon Le Bon and Gregor Fisher.
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Glasgow festival promotes Argyll and Bute
Wild About Argyll is the face of Argyll and the Isles Tourism Co-operative Ltd (AITC), which works at a local and national level promoting Argyll and the Isles as a must-visit destination.
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Clachan seeks art show exhibits
Photography, craftwork, sculpture and floral art is welcome, as well as drawings and collage.
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Peploe painting loaned to Campbeltown
Frank Chinn the museum’s temporary curator said: ‘The painting is deceptively simple but it is the simplicity of a master who can reduce a complex living subject to a few brush strokes.’
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Bute benefits from Bluebird banshee
Speed seeker Donald Campbell, used his jet-engined hydroplane, Bluebird K7 to become, in 1964, the only man to hold land and water speed records in the same year.
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Blue boys’ sing-along Saturday
Tommy and Stewart Blue put on a crowd-pleasing performance in Lodge St John’s 141.
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Tea dancers tread the Masonic Hall boards
With music from the McMacs and Lorna Hume and a fabulous tea, supplied by volunteers, the hall buzzed for more than two hours.
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Kent couples’ Ceol Campbeltown date
Their latest album ‘Liberty Ship’ features legendary drummer Liam Genockey from ‘Steeleye Span.’
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Rock band entertains Campbeltown crowd
Indie rock covers band Gubbed performed modern and retro classics in St John’s 141 Campbeltown Recreational Club last Saturday night.
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Folk duo’s love and life song feast
Their musicianship was well rehearsed and virtually flawless except when Chris’ guitar occasionally went off tune.
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MOK Fest 2019 set to rock the Wee Toon
There is much young home musical talent including Rhuvaal, Ceann Tir, Western Sound, the Niamh MacKaveney Trio and the Dalriada Connections Band.
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Seahorses frontman to headline songwriters’ festival
Chris Helme usually travels to his shows by train but is making an exception to perform at the 12th annual Kintyre Songwriters Festival.
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KSPB’s Novice B band impresses
Kintyre Schools Novice B band, the top band from a non-fee-paying school, gave a great performance.
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Dazzling Dixieland jazz distraction
Kintyre Music Club welcomes Quattro MacJazz, specialising in hot jazz and gospel, to the Lorne and Lowland Church Hall.
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Novice B band marches to Scottish schools champs
Bingo players drummed up more than £1,000 to help send Kintyre’s Novice B pipe band to the Scottish schools’ championships.
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Retired teacher unearths Marquis family roots
His grandfather, Angus Marquis, born in Tarbert in 1901, was descended from a long line of Loch Fyne fishermen.
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Down memory lane, April 5 2019
Last Thursday was the 77th anniversary of a dramatic World War II assault, at St Nazaire, when HMS Campbeltown was rammed into the Normandie dry dock.
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FROM OUR FILES, April 5 2019
Megan Hill, the most promising performer at the festival, won the CWS Scottish Co-op Premier Festival Award.
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Down memory lane, March 29, 2019
Mr Martin recalled that ‘Scotland’s first world boxing champion’ Lynch fought an 1936 exhibition match in Campbeltown.
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FROM OUR FILES, March 29 2019
Crew commander Robert Strang of Carradale Fire Station was presented with the fire service medal for 20 years’ service and good conduct.
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Photograph of the week, March 22 2019
The ruins at Braids on the Killean Estate near Tayinloan.
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Down memory lane, March 15 2019
‘When he saw Down Memory Lane last week dad said he was the only P Docherty in the town at the time.’
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Down Memory Lane, March 8 2019
They may be offered a paint brush to remove their works or perhaps would reveal details about their messages recorded for posterity.
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FROM OUR FILES, March 8 2019
A money box marked with Gregor’s name containing £250 worth of bonds inside was presented to the family to mark the occasion.
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FROM OUR FILES, March 1 2019
Stars of the show were Accent Players who won with their production of Growing Pains and also took the prize for best moment of drama.
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Lensman focuses on lyrical landscapes in Campbeltown talk
One of the most beautiful places Dougie Cunningham photographed was Islay.
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PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WEEK, April 19, 2019
Gayle Barrett captured this sunset in a photograph she titled ‘Westport Beauty’.
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National recognition for cemetery preservation group
The group aiming to preserve a dilapidated Machrihanish cemetery has been praised by a national body.
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Photograph of the week, April 5 2019
A mute swan caring for its young one of three images promoted by Scottish Natural Heritage to mark Mother’s Day in the animal kingdom.
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Scottish scenes snapped in four-year project
Dougie Cunningham was recently on the BBC’s One Show, in a feature on the solar eclipse.
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Mental health’s ‘Walk a mile in my shoes’
Police Scotland Youth Volunteers and Campbeltown’s Link Club have joined forces to challenge the stigma of mental health discrimination.
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Bellochantuy sand supports stones
David Pearson from Slockavullin, Kilmartin was walking on the beach recently when he spotted rocks left high and dry
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Photograph of the week, March 15 2019
Margaret Richardson sent in this photograph from her iPhone 6s of the Zea Servant finally loading a wind tower section last Thursday.
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Weed warriors campaign to ‘Bring Back the Boat’
Anyone interested should come to our inaugural meeting next Thursday at 7pm in the Red Cross Hall.
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