A BOLD bagpiper from Cove is preparing to take on his latest daredevil stunt – and this time it will all be in aid of charity. Roddy Garden, 51, is a member of the Helensburgh Clan Colquhoun Pipe Band and has built up a reputation in recent years
IMPROVED broadband service has come to one of the smallest communities in Helensburgh and Lomond – sparking calls for similar upgrades in other rural communities in Argyll and Bute. Residents of Portincaple, on the outskirts of Garelochhead, now
HELENSBURGH and Lomond’s MSP has urged Post Office Ltd to do whatever it can to ensure that a post office service can continue in Tarbet and Arrochar. The facility in Tarbet closed on June 21 following the resignation of the previous postmaster
A HELENSBURGH and Lomond councillor has urged the local authority to make provision for more electric car charging points in the area in its new local development plan. Lomond North councillor George Freeman says he would like to see a stipulation
ANNA SCULLION celebrated her 18th birthday by winning three titles in a single day at Craighelen Tennis Club’s championship finals on Saturday. Anna retained her 2018 ladies’ singles crown with a 6-1, 6-0 win over her doubles partner Sarah Colman
THE applicants behind the £30million Lomond Banks development in Balloch have today announced that they have withdrawn the controversial plans. Flamingo Land Ltd and Scottish Enterprise informed the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority
AN ARROCHAR fund-raising event has raised more than £4,500 for the family of a five-year-old girl with cancer. Corran Ballantyne, who lives in Mintlaw, near Fraserburgh, with parents Paul and Rona and brother Rohan, nine, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma
THE owners of two patches of land in the west end of Helensburgh have hit out at a local community group over its plans to use new legislation to force a community buy-out of the sites. Thomas Paterson and Margery Osborne said their land at the
NEW bidders have been identified for a major housing development in Helensburgh. The proposed site at Sawmill Field, next to Hermitage Academy, was the subject of a planning application from CALA Homes for the construction of up to 120 new houses
Tokyo 2020 Olympic hopeful Anna Burnet returned to Helensburgh this week to deliver an inspiring talk to pupils on her career so far. The former Lomond School pupil, who has also taken up a role as the school’s sailing ambassador, spoke to Lomond
