Arran with Captain Ayad Isoud and Iain Sim.
AN OBAN schoolboy surprised restorers of Scotland’s last surviving turbine steamship, the TS Queen Mary, on his seventh birthday by donating a cheque for £500, writes Sandy Neil.
Boat-mad Arran Budge, a pupil at Rockfield Primary School, asked his parents, Norman and Karen, to visit the 1930s steamship in Glasgow for a birthday present, and a surprise was hatched.