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I READ Tuesday’s letters page, and have to agree with regular contributor, the one and only Winifred McCartney. We are all sick to the back teeth of these “so-called Scots” as she rightly calls them, doing their utmost to ensure their own land never prospers as they are so far up the English establishment’s behind that it’s embarrassing. I would just like to put something to all the readers, if I may. Could you ever imagine, for one moment, the good folk of England – and the...

Campbeltown Courier Anne S Paterson, former chief education officer, is being awarded an OBE. 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...

Lismore in flood recently. Photo Duncan Wilson. With heavy rain falling across the Northern Rivers this week, the risks faced by people living in floodplain areas are again coming into focus. This week Echonetdaily spoke to Dr Nathan Kesteven, President of Whian Whian Landcare, about the potential of the Northern Rivers Watershed Initiative to mitigate flooding and also improve the health of local rivers. He explained that the initiative has been in the works since the Lismore floods of 2017,...

Argyllshire Advertiser Updated: 07/01/21, 7:01 pm Former teacher and Argyll and Bute chief education officer Anne Paterson will receive an OBE and said she was lost for words. 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 h...

© Supplied Archibald Menzies introduced the monkey puzzle tree to the UK. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The distinctively spiky monkey puzzle tree, now an endangered species, was introduced to the UK in 1795 by Perthshire plant collector Archibald Menzies. Gayle Ritchie explores Menzies’s life and legacy and looks at the f...

Neighbours heard a "bang" at 3am, but by the time firefighters arrived at the scene, nothing could be done to save the house.

© Daily Mail/Shutterstock The Ibrox Disaster left a dark cloud hanging over Glasgow. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The Ibrox Disaster was one of the most grievous events ever to happen in the history of British sport. When all the devastation erupted at the end of the Old Firm derby on January 2 1971, it left 66 people dead,...

Neighbours heard a "bang" at 3am, but by the time firefighters arrived at the scene, nothing could be done to save the house.

(1 vote) Whenever rival fans are looking up cliches to support the assertion that indie music is twee, Belle And Sebastian are usually one of the bands which they like to kick sand in the face of. It’s fair to say that the Glaswegians haven’t helped themselves much in the past, from their DIY beginnings with 1996’s effete Tigermilk to their rejection of anything which seemed codified to the evils of rock and roll. Band leader Stuart Murdoch has also spoken recently about his determination...

Premium Content Subscriber only BY any stretch of the imagination 2020 was, to borrow a phrase from the Queen, an "annus horribilis". Theres no other way to describe it. At the beginning of 2021, like the start of any new year, theres a glimmer of hope and the promise of better times ahead. How will the Northern Rivers emerge from COVID-19? Will the strong-willed population of our region even take the vaccine against the coronavirus when it becomes available this year? What impact will th...