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BBC News By Craig Williams image captionUSS Proteus at anchor in the Holy Loch in 1961 Dunoon was no stranger to submarines and their crews by the time the first Americans arrived there in March 1961 but establishing a US base in Scotland was still a controversial move. The Argyll town sits at the mouth of the Holy Loch on the east side of the Cowal peninsula. The loch opens straight out into the Clyde and a combination of deep waters, natural shelter, and easy access to the open sea, had alrea...

Empumelelweni Primary School started operating on a field adjacent to Old Faure Road, next to Forest Village, Eerste River, on Tuesday, 16 February. About 450 pupils attend the makeshift school. There are no chairs or toilets, and pupils bring chairs from home and use toilets in homes next to the school. Schools in the area have donated textbooks to allow teachers to continue classes. Volunteer teachers from the area teach grades 1 to 11 while parents sit on rocks in the middle of the field or ...

Cuningar Loop THE Cuningar Loop woodland park is set to grow after a £2.3million funding boost. Almost 170 trees will be planted and new walkways, picnic areas and a teaching amphitheatre are all planned. An extra 21 acres of currently vacant and derelict land will be added to the existing 37 acres of woodland. Cash has been given to the Clyde Gateway regeneration programme – a partnership between Glasgow City Council, South Lanarkshire Council and Scottish Enterprise – by the Scot...

. The settlement of Wolwerivier, about 30 km from Cape Town’s city centre, is classified by the City of Cape Town as an “incremental development area”. But five years since it was created, there hasn’t been much “development”, say the families who live there. Magdalene Minnaar moved into Wolwerivier in April 2016. She had been living on a nearby farm with 22 other families, with no electricity and shared water points and toilets. Her new home in Wolwerivier has a toilet, running wat...

Campbeltown Courier Updated: 26/02/21, 10:42 am The A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful was closed for more than 200 days last year because of landslips. 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 o...

Parents make desperate plea for placement but schools are full About 100 parents hired taxis to travel to the Western Cape Education Department’s offices in Parow last Friday. In a desperate attempt to find placement at a school for their children, about 100 parents hired taxis to travel to the Western Cape Education Department’s offices in Parow last Friday. This followed nearly a week of their own unsuccessful attempts to get their children into the nearby Sinenjongo High school in Milner...

Argyllshire Advertiser Tarbert Fire Station. 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 a...

John Dryburgh via email ONE of the main reasons I read The National online is to see the comments. I’m not interested in a whole load of boring, middle-of-the-road “SNP are great – don’t rock the boat” stuff. So I shall see how it goes, and consider whether or not to continue with my subscription. John Gordon via email WELL said Alan Hinnrichs (Letters, February 23) regarding the entryism within the SNP. It’s clear to anyone paying attention that a small band of entryists ha...

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...

Premium Content Subscriber only Potholes seem to be popping up everywhere after recent heavy rainfall, making roads more like an obstacle course than a place to drive. Lismore City Council said heavy rains in December caused up to $3.5 million worth of damage to local roads. It said: “We hear your frustrations about the state of the roads and we are working hard to fill as many potholes as fast as we can, however, continued periods of wet weather result in further potholes occurring meaning i...