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ART FOR AILLIDH

Friday, 27 January 2012 11:25 | Written by Gordon Neish

A GROUP of Dunoon Grammar School pupils have donated profits from a school art department enterprise project to help Aillidh Kinnaird after reading about the eight-year-old’s battle against leukaemia in last week’s Dunoon Observer.

‘HOSPICE’ OPEN DAY

Friday, 27 January 2012 11:19 | Written by Gordon Neish

THE first phase in NHS Highland’s replacement for Cowal Hospice is now complete, and people are being invited to see it for themselves.

PLEASE HELP AILLIDH

Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:32 | Last Updated on Friday, 20 January 2012 11:49 | Written by Gordon Neish

AILLIDH KINNAIRD FROM SANDBANK NEEDS YOUR HELP – TO STAY ALIVE.

FERRIES PLAN DUE SHORTLY

Friday, 13 January 2012 12:30 | Written by Aileen MacNicol

DETAILS of how Argyll Ferries plans to tackle problems with Dunoon's passenger-only service will be published next week, civil servants have confirmed.

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY

Friday, 27 January 2012 11:21 | Last Updated on Friday, 27 January 2012 11:31 | Written by Gordon Neish

Dunoon Grammar School held a special assembly today (Friday) to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The anniversary of the liberation of the most infamous Nazi death camp was chosen as a day to let horrors of the past teach us about the present and the future.

BEWARE – ELECTIONEERING

Friday, 27 January 2012 11:15 | Written by Gordon Neish

LAST Thursday a scheduled meeting of Argyll and Bute Council took place.

Thirty-one of Argyll and Bute’s 35 councillors gathered at Kilmory for the meeting – which lasted a whole eight minutes.

BITTER STRIKE AT JAMES WATT

Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:14 | Last Updated on Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:20 | Written by Gordon Neish

AN INCREASINGLY bitter dispute between management and lecturing staff at Greenock’s James Watt College has led to strike action.

POWERING ON

Friday, 06 January 2012 13:34 | Last Updated on Friday, 06 January 2012 15:15 | Written by Aileen MacNicol

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POWER ENGINEERS are soldiering on to restore electricity to hundreds of homes throughout Cowal and Bute - and have brought in the big guns as back-up if storm-force winds prevail.