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Craig Zerk, East Ballina As an engineer with over 45 years’ experience working in the water supply industry, I support the new water Strategy proposed by Rous Water and I am opposed to the Dunoon Dam. There are some very significant reasons for favouring groundwater over construction of a new dam downstream of the existing Rocky Creek Dam. Economically, groundwater offers the lowest Net Present Value and can be sequentially staged over decades to meet the needs of a growing population. By co...

Dunoon man handed life sentence in prison for raping stepdaughter (10) The court found sufficient evidence proving that he repeatedly raped his stepdaughter between June and December 2019. © andreyuu/123rf.com He was sentenced in the Cape Town Sexual Offences Court last Friday. The convicted rapist was said to be a respected member of the community and a preacher. But what happened behind closed doors, tol...

Notions of remoteness with Jura-based art show World Organ - an outside sound sculpture created by Giles Perring on Jura. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time h...

UNION Jackery – the practice of wrongly labelling Scottish food or other products as British, complete with the Union flag – is something this…

Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free...

Argyllshire Advertiser One of Argylls scenic gems - Carradale Bay looking across to Arran. Photo: Raymond Hosie. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now co...

City says it has an interdict to stop new shacks from being built on the land

A drunk driver at a Metro Police roadblock near Blue Downs, Cape Town was brazen enough to take one last swig from the bottle of brandy in his lap on Sunday, 30 May.

At a roadblock in the Blue Downs area on Sunday, officers noticed an open bottle of brandy between the mans legs when they stopped him.

Learner’s licence test cheater caught with crib notes By Staff Reporter Share A DUNOON resident was caught red-handed and charged with fraud after trying to cheat on his learner’s licence test by hiding his crib notes up his sleeve. The City said an examiner at the Milnerton Traffic Department saw the 28-year-old man acting suspiciously and witnessed him copying answers from a piece of paper. When the examiner approached him, he placed the paper in his sleeve and denied allegations of...