Fabulous flowers and delicious sweet treats
All sorts of props were used in the displays, with watering cans and a mini, plastic wheelbarrow featuring.
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Early bird offer for Setara gig
All tickets purchased before May 15 will cost £10 but afterwards they will be £15 and £12 for concessions.
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Newest young farmers muck in at fundraiser
Some of the nine youngsters who signed up to join the group at a recent new members’ night helped out at a coffee morning.
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Money raised for maternity group and pipe band
A bingo night and a quiz night raised funds for the Kintyre groups.
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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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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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Pipe band will breathe life into MOKFest Saturday
The band is replacing the festival parade which has been postponed this year as there were not enough floats and participants.
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Silver Steppers transported back in time
Swing music from the 1930s and 1940s transported some of Campbeltown’s best movers back in time.
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Former X Factor star’s Campbeltown date
‘I have heard that everyone in the town is supporting the event to raise money for the school. I can’t wait.’
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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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DOWN MEMORY LANE, June 7 2019
There has been an unbroken record of worship and faithful Christian witness.
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FROM OUR FILES, June 7 2019
Kintyre could become the major centre in Britain for the sport of surfing if the enthusiasm of two young men gets the encouragement it deserves.
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Down Memory Lane, April 19 2019
The dramatic story of the 1994 rescue of six crewmen, from tugboat the Tynesider, after lifeboats, from Campbeltown and Tighnabruaich, were scrambled at 3am
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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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PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WEEK, May 3, 2019
This was the first time the walkers, whose nationalities are Scottish, English, Danish and Italian, ventured out as a group.
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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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