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Arran runner Tommy Gilmore was able to raise a smile near the end of the Shiskine Valley half marathon last Sunday.
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Harvest time

In the 1950s trees were planted on Arran and then some years ago they began to chop them down and remove them off the island by timber barge. That was only thinning, now harvesting is about to start.

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