This month’s crossword contains 10 unclued answers which are all seasonal and are marked with “*”. Across 8 Marsh grass makes relic with gay abandon (8) 9 Despi...
Across 1 Titan supercar catches Scotsman (5) 6 Ursine is also in Panama (5) 9 After port zero mother finds growth (7) 10 Frighten energy into distant view (5) 11&...
Bruno Baumgärtner contacted us about the new ferry terminal: What an awful, completely oversized s**t Calmac is building here. 50 Mio for a new larger ferry instead of two new smaller, faster ones a...
After some sessions on the dangers of smoking, Arran’s schoolchildren were invited to write something imaginative on the subject. Here is the winning piece, by Bradley Andrew Lord. Well done Bradley...
Coastwatch Scotland was founded in 2005 in Irvine as an independent non-governmental volunteer coastal monitoring and safety organisation. There are five stations operating in Scotland and England, b...
Those who have heard them on their previous visits to Arran will need no urging to come to the concert by Djordje and Andrea Gajic on Saturday 19th November in Brodick Hall. It starts at 7.30, and as ...
The Scotsman has reported research carried out over a four-year period in Lamlash Bay by scientists at York and Bangor universities. Results show the numbers of lobsters found in the area more than do...
Not surprisingly we have received quite a few emails about the Holy Isle Wind Turbine proposal which was given planning permission last month. Some were supportive of the proposal, some not, and a sma...
Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet by Edward Dusinberre, pub. Faber and Faber. “Beethoven’s sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging p...