from Katy’s online newsletter Action on Hearing Loss currently runs a number of Hear-To-Help drop-in services across Ayrshire and Arran. More than 1,200 people from Ayrshire and Arran use it eac...
Katy says: The people of Greece have been asked to pay a huge price and suffer unbearable attacks on living standards over the past five years in order to bailout failed bankers. Greece’s bailou...
Arran plays host to some special visitors in April when six performance poets from the North East of England come to the island. ‘Vane Women’ (the name memorialises what they sadly refer t...
The residents’ viewpoint. It is with great concern that Machrie residents learned of the Forestry Commissions proposals for timber haulage, a stacking area and slipway to be built in the village...
America’s Center for Investigative Reporting noted recently that Oklahoma had 562 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater in 2014. This astonishing fact can have only one explanation. Earthquake...
A series of earthquakes caused by fracking in Holland came to a head in 2012 when a 3.6 magnitude quake caused widespread damage to buildings. The Dutch government admitted that it had not expected su...
Selected by David Underdown who also provides the commentary. Street in Samois after the painting by Odilon Redon (1888) Once, in this deserted street – a short street of golden stone that draws you...
Lamlash now has a swish new hairdressing salon, beside the Co-op in what used to be the Cabbage Patch greengrocery shop. Christine, its owner, has moved her business called Comb and Curl from beside t...
Boy and Man by Niall Williams This far-reaching story by the Irish writer, Niall Williams, is about the close, though torn-apart relationship between a boy and his grandfather. They love nothing bette...
Forestry Commission Scotland is currently exploring whether timber from the west of Arran can be taken off the island at Dougarie. The main objective is to reduce the amount of timber haulage on publi...