It takes time to adapt to using hearing aids – getting used to new sounds as well as managing the hearing aids themselves. Our Hear to Help service on Arran can enable people to make the most of the...
Just one in five salmon farms in Scotland has installed the most effective method of deterring seals, data reveals, prompting fresh criticism of claims that the animals are shot as “a last resort”...
The Christmas offering on December 13th at 6.30 in Corrie and Sannox Hall is going to be a Christmas Triple Bill and Supper. Three films with supper in between (bring a dish if you would like to). Thi...
Fyne Futures provides a range of community projects to improve the environment and promote sustainability in and around Argyll and Bute. It currently operates a fortnightly recycling kerbside collecti...
Our seas are filling up with plastic rubbish and chemical sludge. It has recently been estimated that 8 million tons of plastic waste are dumped in the ocean each year and it is predicted that the tot...
A Green Party report (Airport Expansion Doesn’t Make Climate Sense) has revealed that the UK will not meet its climate change targets if David Cameron goes ahead with a new runway at Heathrow, Gatwi...
For the technically minded, the St Ayles Skiff is built from a kit using high quality marine plywood using the clinker ply method. It is 22ft (6.5m) long and has a beam of 5ft 8in (1.7m). There is som...
Our Arran Artist of the Month this month is Jan Inglis. Jan and husband John live in High Corrie and are well known in many areas of island life. Midsummer...
23/10/2015, Lamlash Alyssa Colwell, Katie Mowatt and Charlie Weir are pupils from Arran High School. They have joined the Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) team for a week of work experience. Ka...
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell Vintage paperback £7.99 USBN 978-0-099-54840-9 Mankell in New York in 2011 Henning Mankell, the Swedish novelist and crime writer who died last week, was one of th...