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A trio of HM Coastguards with a total of 95 years’ service and their supportive wives were honoured at a gala dinner last Saturday. Certificates and a bar to the men’s 25-year-long service medals were presented at the Argyll Hotel event. From left: Elizabeth Conley and Willie Conley with 35 years’ service; Kerry Houston and Robert Houston, David Gillies and Joanne Gillies. See page three for more about Kintyre’s first major Argyll-wide Coastguard exercise.