The George Hotel in Inveraray took delivery a couple of weeks ago of what can only be described as a king of the sea.

Two Dunoon residents, along with Argyll and Bute MP Brendan O’Hara, attended a parliamentary lobby in London on Tuesday July 18 to lend support to the campaign to suspend pelvic mesh implants - which have been described as a ‘car crash in the pelvis’ for many women who have had the procedure.

AN investigation is under way after the death of an eight-year-old Argyll girl in a forest accident.

A 37-year-old man appeared at Greenock Sheriff Court today (Monday July 24) following a police appeal for witnesses to an alleged robbery in Watergate, Rothesay on Friday July 21.

Rothesay resident Patrick Altizio appeared from custody following his arrest over the weekend. He made no plea and was remanded in custody after committal for further examination.

DETAILS about the future of the Dunoon-Gourock town centre ferry service will not -as previously hoped - be revealed in September, it emerged yesterday (Thursday).