Food and drink on Skye

RNLI top brass praised town’s lifeboat station

RNLI’s Coast Review group, including Vice Admiral Sir

Islay man’s sentence deferred

An Islay man who head-butted a police officer will

Free school meals and clothing applications

Pupils from primary one through to S6 are eligible

Four stars for Argyll and Bute Council website

A public sector society for IT practitioners, SOCITM

Mobile phone driver banned

A driver who discovered he was not insured when he

Narrow escape prompts A83 crossing petition

‘Are the powers that be waiting till someone gets injured

Police ask: ‘Is Campbeltown in Glasgow or Edinburgh?’

A 999 Police Scotland call handler’s lack of geographical

Devon man meets Argyll donor who saved his life

A Leukaemia suTherer travelled from Devon to Campbeltown

Church asks: Free@Five?

Campbeltown Free Church is embarking on a new summer

Poor white lines blamed for crash

A driver whose one-yearold vehicle slammed into a Campbeltown

Driver who ‘forgot’ to pay speeding ticket is fined £150

Driver who ‘forgot’ to pay speeding ticket is fined

Sampling some of Peru’s World Cup football fiesta

LIMA went ‘loco’ with with football fever this month

Campbeltown Pupils 2005s had an amazing season

No world cup teams will say all players scored in the

Flower club bloomer

A photograph in the Courier’s coverage of Campbeltown

Mother and daughter’s MoonWalk marathon

A Gigha mother and daughter duo have helped to paint

Active Schools’ smashing tennis

Aces from schools across Kintyre played a mixture of

Carradale cricketers stump Oban

Carradale Cricket Club claimed a penultimate ball victory

Ce na Ri’s spinnaker saved seconds to win

Despite a plea for ‘white sails only’ it was Irish

Tarbert soldier added to university’s roll of honour

A Tarbert soldier awarded the Military Cross for gallantry

LETTERS

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A safe crossing for Campbeltown

This week Andrew McPhillips describes the close shave

FROM OUR FILES

All the band members performed in a concert at the

DOWN MEMORY LANE

Building workers uncovered a slice of Campbeltown’s

Scotland: the first country in the world to dedicate a full year to celebrating young people.

To inspire Scotland through its young people, celebrating their achievements, valuing their contribution to communities and creating new opportunities for them to shine locally, nationally and globally’.

Argyll & Bute Council

This has been designated ‘Year of Young People’ by the Scottish Government and Scotland is the first country to recognise and celebrate the contributions and achievements of young people in this way. The aim is to inspire Scotland through its young people……celebrate their achievements, value their contribution to communities and create new opportunities for them to shine locally, nationally and globally

Celebrating 50 years of young people volunteering overseas

Now in its 50th anniversary year, educational charity

New Talent flourishes at Mount Stuart Gardens

With the world’s largest private art collection, Mount Stuart Trust has a worldwide reputation for teaching and research in the arts, working with Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard Universities.

An education as unique as you are

There are as many reasons for independent education

Dollar Academy

We have a very simple ethos at Dollar: if you work

Think you know Argyll College UHI? Think again #thinkArgyll

Did you know that last year over 1600 students studied

Get into Business, Administration or Computing

Would you like to get back into education but don’t

Trèanadh Air Leth sna Meadhanan leis a’ Ghàidhlig san Eilean Sgitheanach

Trèanadh Air Leth sna Meadhanan leis a’ Ghàidhlig san

Gaelic Language offers Unique Media Training in Scenic Skye

Gaelic Language offers Unique Media Training in Scenic

Healthy, HAPPY + safe

Making sure young people have the chance to lead healthy, active lives and understand the importance of mental health and resilience is one of the remits of Year of Young People 2018

Helping teenagers who want to slim down

SLIMMING World launched its young members programme

Who cares for kids who care?

There are lots of organisations that can help if you are a young carer or young adult carer.

Celebrating the best

A total of 24 finalists attended the 2018 Argyll and

Developing careers for young people

The best way to keep and grow our communities is through our young people and they need good quality jobs

Lochaber study leave boost for job seekers

Study leave is the time of year when numerous students

Young people are our future

At Wyvex Media we are proud to have given many young people their first big breaks in the media industry

Creating more opportunity for young people

Young people are vital if the Highlands and Islands are to be commercially competitive, with sustainable economic growth and community resilience, Charlotte Wright, of HIE believes.

The online way to get into work

The young people of Scotland’s Highlands and islands turn to the same place they live their lives: online.

Building a future in construction

With roots that stretch back for more than 40 years

Innovative solutions to social challenges

Jennifer Macdonald, director of community supported organic farm and delivery business Woodside Arran, was voted Firstport’s Young Social Innovator 2017, winning a £5000 prize and business support.

Yellow Badge Training – Rhona McCracken & Rowan Watkins

Yellow Badge Training – Rhona McCracken & Rowan

Celebrating the Year of Young People

Building communities with Lego!

Young people have come up with a great idea to use

THE Royal National Mòd will have links to the Year of Young People 2018

THE Royal National Mòd will have links to the Year

Join in a poetry slam

If a young Robert Burns was around today he would be

Cadet Connel gets special Argyll and Bute honour

A 17yearold from Dunoon has been appointed this year’s

In Glasgow, online or out gigging - learn with the Academy of Music and Sound

In Glasgow, online or out gigging - learn with the

Special RNLI gala day screening

It is unlikely that a great white shark will make it

Pounds for green-fingered pupils’ plants

All things turned gloriously green for one day only

Surf and turf barbeque greets Irish sailors

Cushendall crews who crossed the north channel in good

Scottish builders bounce back

Scottish construction firms enjoyed strong growth in

West coasters have their day in the Highland sunshine

Farmers gathered in their thousands for the Royal Highland

Council’s formal tribute to Islay’s WW100 group

The Lord Lieutenant of Argyll and Bute, Patrick Stewart

Family’s five generations stem from Gigha

A family, originally from the Isle of Gigha, with a

Thought for the Week

Perfection is the only word that can describe it. The

ANNOUNCEMENTS

GIRVAN - Peacefully, at the Campbeltown Hospital, on

Sponsored walk to net junior football cash

There was a massive turnout for Campbeltown and District

Machrihanish Golf Club’s June results

Championship course results include the Suzanne Florence

Catherine cashes in after golf lotto success

A Campbeltown woman is in the money after winning the

Double champion golfer Greg does it again

Greg Watson has proved his golfing prowess, winning

Angela and Arran’s Ann are Glenralloch greats

Arran woman Ann May’s scratch score was ‘the best from

Carradale celebrates promotion

Carradale AFC’s first year in the Greater Glasgow Football

SPOT THE BALL

We have removed the football from the photograph opposite.

Golf champion Greg takes Dunaverty title

Greg Watson not only won Dunaverty Golf Club’s championship

Cushendall’s Ce na Ri crew cruise to a win

Two sailors from the Cushendall crew, who won last

2012s at football fest in Oban

Some of Campbeltown’s youngest footballers travelled

Seatours sold

An open topped rigid inThatable boat which has been