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Spring sun shines for Brodick Country Park volunteer group re-launch
The National Trust for Scotland ranger service at Brodick Country Park has re-launched their local volunteer group this month. Five keen Arran residents joined Brodick Country Park ranger Corinna Goeckeritz last Thursday…
A small fact about nuclear power
The New York Times news service has been talking to experts on the problem facing the Japanese engineers grappling with the crippled Fukushima Daiichi reactors. They provide the following nugget of information.…
Pictures by Mo Khan – click on a picture to see a larger version & information about the photo.
Walking on the Wild Side
John Muir- The Call of the Wild. by Lucy Wallace The past month has seen John Muir’s birthday, and to celebrate the life and legacy of this extraordinary man, Lucy Wallace explains…
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Cams Campbell
interviewed by Laura Selkirk Meeting Brodick postmaster Alan ‘Cams’ Campbell for coffee, I expected a simple chat about his interest in music and what brought him to Arran. What I got was…
Star groups appear on Arran
On Saturday 23rd April, Broken Records (with support from Hot Jupiter) Broken Records released their highly acclaimed debut 7" single, “If the News Makes You Sad Don't Watch It”, in April 2008.…
Arran Civic Trust invites everyone to a talk by ALASTAIR McINTOSH Thursday, 7th APRIL 7.30pm Arran High School
Climate change, species extinction, war and alienation are just some of the threats that imperil the world that gives us life. Unless humanity learns how to rekindle community, all other efforts will…
A school for show-biz
Still knocked out by Pot Noodle, the ebullience of the show sent back in mind to a year spent teaching in a Primary school that had grown from about 270 children to…
Poem of the Month
selected by David Underdown My Crow by Raymond Carver A crow flew into the tree outside my window. It was not Ted Hughes’s crow, or Galway’s crow. Or Frost’s, Pasternak’s, or Lorca’s…
Tough times in Canada
Jim Henderson continues his story of the Arran people who went to Megantic County in Canada in 1829. The first winter was awful. Because the authorities had been slow to deal with…
FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 2011
You may have seen the brightly coloured cotton bunting hanging near the check-outs in the Brodick Co-op during Fairtrade fortnight in March. Arran Fairtrade would like to thank all the primary school…
Major electricity cable now under construction
For years, plans to generate electricity on Arran through wind turbines, solar panels or hydro schemes have been frustrated because the main cable that runs to the west of the island and…