HOLLYWOOD COMES TO COWAL There was a touch of Tinseltown in Hunter’s Quay on Sunday as 120 Ladies Who Lunch, em, lunched. T h e Ho l l y w o o d Ladies’ Lunch event, was scheduled to run from noon to 5pm.

The Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard has new owners.

The historic title has been purchased for an undisclosed sum by Argyll Media Ltd, a sister company of Annan-based DNG Media, the largest independent publisher in Dumfries and Galloway with four local newspaper titles.

 Tonight (Thursday, November 5) saw a fabulous show of fire and fireworks from Cowal Golf Club - with Over £2,500 spent on the 25-minute extravaganza of bangs, whistles, thunder and a kaleidoscope of blazing colour. The community event is continually growing - and fast becoming a unmissable date on the Cowal calendar.

There were dramatic scenes on the shore in Innellan yesterday (Sunday November  1) when a car came  off the road, went into the Clyde, and turned upside down.

Marion and John Carmichael announce their retirement, and the last ever Dunoon Observer to be printed in Dunoon rolled off the presses yesterday, and the last newspaper to be printed in Argyll. However, next week will be business as usual, just that the paper will be printed elsewhere. The E&R Inglis presses have fallen silent for the last time.