Thought for the Week

Cocaine crook gets two years jail term

A DRUG dealer was sent to prison for two years

Campbeltown Town Hall project scoops prestigious national award

At the awards presentation last week were Barry Colville, Lindsay

Cut council mileage rates not bin collections

ON MONDAY Kintyre refuse collection moves into the much-derided, three-weekly

Inpatient and day children’s service may move from RAH

NHS GREATER Glasgow and Clyde is proposing to transfer paediatric

Carradale rain sent plastic ducks completely quackers

THE WEATHER was too wet even for ducks bound for

‘Extreme Beasts’ porn charge not proven

THE CASE against a man found with a DVD featuring

Man admits threatening officers

A QUALIFIED vet who shouted ‘I am the authority here’

Rescued town hall garners national award

THE TEAM behind the restoration of one of Campbeltown’s most

Blood donor’s 100th pint milestone

A MAN given a blood transfusion during his birth has

Pair confess to fight

A MAN who was hospitalised after a fight pleaded guilty

Soaked sand as beach fans revel in the rain

RESIDENTS, relatives and staff at a Campbeltown care home didn’t

Wet weather wrecks first highland games in years

A HORRENDOUS weather forecast led to Campbeltown’s first Highland games

Mum admits sending lover lewd images

A CHEATING 23-year-old Argyll mother who used her young girls

Guitarist walks the line for lost pal

‘Something like that never really leaves you’

Tractor driver banned from the road

A COUNCIL grass cutter stopped by police while driving a

St Kieran’s 200th anniversary of worship

A CAMPBELTOWN Roman Catholic church marked its bi-centenary with a

A stitch in time

NEEDLE novices will be able to get some sewing instruction

Stick goes walkabout

A COURIER reader has found a red shafted, black handled,

Food bank stocks shelves for grand opening

KINTYRE Food Bank welcomed its first delivery to fill its

Health care groups pull together at town hall

AN INFORMATIVE event provided the perfect opportunity for residents to

World’s biggest coffee morning

A CAKE sale, raffle and thirsty coffee drinkers helped Campbeltown’s

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO OCTOBER 4 1991

A BEND in a local road which has been the

FIFTY YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 29 1966

WHAT looks like the hoax of the year was pulled

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 30 1916

At three o’clock on Sunday morning Big Ben will be

Labourer fined after fire destroyed stolen work’s van

A MAN who had a provisional licence and was only

‘Generally a law-abiding town’

THESE were the words of Sheriff Ruth Anderson QC as

All his Saturdays came together

KINTYRE has always scored above its weight and the national

Don’t let a good thing go to waste

By now every resident in Kintyre will have received their

care in the community

We all thrive to have happy, healthy relationships whether it

Fifty notes for seaman’s treasure trunk

BARGAINS galore went under the auctioneer’s hammer at the Rotary

Rangers take pupils for walk on the wild side

DALINTOBER’S primary four class laced up their hiking boots to

Charitable Castlehill children collect cancer support cash

CASTLEHILL primary pupils raised £350 when they held a Macmillan

Museum life in miniature

BUNS and rock cakes are on the menu tomorrow (Saturday)

PTA hits the spot with fundraiser

AN EVENING fundraiser at Dalintober primary school including a hit-the-target

Exclusive Disney competition

The family action film is part of Campbeltown Picture House’s

Rhunahaorine celebrate third Green flag

AN ECO-FRIENDLY primary school recycled their way to a third

£8million family distillery gets go ahead

A FAMILY-RUN whisky company is set to establish Islay’s newest

Biggest monthly increase for First Milk in nine years

FIRST MILK have announced their largest monthly price per litre

Golf round-up from the juniors at Machrihanish

JUNIORS lined up alongside seniors for the annual end of

Blair lifts ‘Wee Joe’ memorial shield

MEMBERS and guests turned out at Tarbert golf club for

Golf lotto winner

GEORGE McSporran bagged the Machrihanish Golf Club three-number lottery to

Kintyre anglers catch Kinloch Shield . . .

KINTYRE Angling Club welcomed Lochgilpead Angling Club to Lussa Loch

Thomas competition commemorates vice captain

AN EMOTIVE contest in memory of Gary Thomas was held

MacBrayne scoops September Medal

CAMPBELL MacBrayne took the Dunaverty September Medal by the smallest

Argyll Select match falls victim to the weather

LAST Saturday’s football match between an Argyll Select and the

MacNab pips McCaffery to Tarbert title

FOURTEEN members and guests gathered for golf’s Lamont-Mac-Kenzie 5th Major

Ponies are in the McEachran genes

A PONY champion who first saddled up aged just one

Islay Golf Club results

WESTERN Ferries, Sunday August 28: 1 A MacAuley 41 points;

Souness passes Paterson Scottish FA volunteer award

‘THE DRIVING force’ behind Campbeltown youth football has been awarded

MY CAR CHECK MARKET GUIDE: SEPTEMBER 2016

MY Car Check’s valuation experts have revealed significant trends in

CRESSWELL- GEORGE

Peacefully, at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, on September

LOWE

Peacefully, at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, on September 21,

MACDOUGALL

Peacefully, at the Queen Elizabeth University Hos pital, Glasgow, on

MACLEAN

-Peaceful ly, at McKellar House, Erskine Care Home, on September

SOUDEN

- In loving memory of a dear mother, Betty, who