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The Robert Black Memorial Helipad became operational on April 1 and has already helped 19 patients to be airlifted from Campbeltown Hospital.

The facility in Campbeltown has already helped in the transfer of 19 patients since it became operational.

Campbeltown Courier Updated: 07/05/21, 7:30 am Alex Wotherspoon and Robert Black performing together at the 2018 Mull of Kintyre Music Festival. Photograph: Kenny Craig. 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 sa...

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A GARTOCHARN novelist has spoken about how lockdown gave him the time and freedom to get no fewer than three books ready for publication this year. Denzil Meyrick, who has worked as a police officer, distillery manager, freelance journalist and company director, now uses his experiences in the police force to inspire his bestselling crime fiction books. In 2019, he was nominated for Bloody Scotland’s William McIlvanney Prize 2019, which honours the best Scottish crime novel of the year....

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....

Campbeltown Courier Updated: 26/02/21, 7:31 am CARS officer James Lafferty and his daughter Lola, right, alongside Campbeltown Town Hall, one of the buildings which has been restored over the last 14 years, leading to the town’s success at the SURF Awards. 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 ...

Campbeltown Courier The Robert Black Memorial Helipad is beginning to take shape. Photograph: Kenny Craig. 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 ...