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Arran’s public transport comes under scrutiny
Independent consultant Angus Bodie has been hired to find out what the community on Arran thinks of the bus service and other forms of transport on the island. Read more about the study in the Arran...
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Farmers’ society shows the best of Arran
Arran Farmers’ Society Show took place in different circumstances from last year when it was nearly cancelled because of rain. This year crowds flocked to Lamlash to take part in and be entertained by...
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Clowning around at Sannox cricket sixes
Sannox Cricket Club held its most successful cricket sixes yet on Saturday August 3 2013 and raised almost £1,500 as fancy dressed teams took to the pitch for a day of comedy of errors. See our page of...
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More than 3,500 turn out for Brodick games
The sun shone and record crowds packed Ormidale Park on Saturday August 10 2013 for the annual Brodick Highland Games. Visitors poured off the ferries all day and islanders joined them early on the...
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Basking shark harassment investigated
Police and the Coastguard are investigating the alleged harassment of two basking sharks off the coast of Corrie on Saturday August 10 2013 Read all about it in the Arran Banner edition of August 17...
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Ex-pupils back on Arran for school reunion
A big group of ex-Arran High School pupils who started at the school in 1975, reunited on Friday Augsut 9 2013 at the Ormidale Hotel in Brodick. This being the year that most of them turned 50, it...
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Big ‘thank you’ after helicopter rescue drama
A woman has returned to the spot where she had to be rescued three months previously. She was with her husband and friends when she fell near the Kings Cave south of Blackwaterfoot and broke her wrist....
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Lamlash compass receives some family TLC
Three generations of the same family have been hard at work restoring a historic compass on the island. Read more about their efforts in the Arran Banner edition of August17 2013 and on line at...
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Shiskine strikes a pose for charity fashion show
The young and beautiful – and not so young but still pretty good-looking – were strutting their stuff on the Shiskine catwalk on Monday night, August 19, to raise funds for ArCaS. Read all about it in...
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Summer success for Arran producers
Gardeners and growers proudly displayed their produce at the Arran Horticultural Society Summer Show after two months of perfect weather. Pick up the Arran Banner, August 24 2013, for photos from the...
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Face of Glen Rickard will change
The entire landscape between Brodick and Lamlash is to change dramatically over the next 15 years and more. Find out how in the Arran Banner edition of August 24 2013 and on line at...
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Fantastic first day for Arran’s new starts
Six of Arran’s primary schools welcomed their new primary one pupils on Monday, August 19 2013, as the long, hot summer holidays came to an end. See the Arran Banner edition of August 24 2013 for all...
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Ewan takes champion prize for sixth time
The man described as ‘the best golfer on the island’, Ewan McKinnon, has won the Arran Golfers Association Champion of Champions for the sixth time. The final saw Arran’s best two golfers Dougie...
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Golfer Spud is 90 years young!
The friends and colleagues of Harold ‘Spud’ Taylor gathered at Corrie Golf Club to celebrate him reaching the grand old age of 90 last Saturday (August 24, 2013). In today’s world some may say this is...
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Brave mudders take on military style obstacle course
On a wet and windy Scottish Saturday six brave Arran youngsters joined 10,000 Mudders as they descended upon the usually peaceful Dalkeith Country Estate to take on the third UK Tough Mudder of 2013 –...
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Arran cast perform iconic McLellan play
As part of the McLellan Festival a cast of Arran actors performed the playwright’s mythical tale The Carlin Moth on Friday night (August 23, 2013). Robert McLellan described this poetic and poignant...
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Dux award for Sophie
It was quite a night for Sophie Corbett from Brodick on Thursday 22 August, 2013 when she was named Arran High School’s Dux for 2013. At the school’s annual awards ceremony, the 16-year-old’s parents...
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Four poets celebrate success in McLellan contest
More than 900 entries were received for this year’s McLellan Poetry Competition and at Brodick Hall on Friday August 30 a small but enthusiastic crowd gathered to hear the winning poems read first by...
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Arran Greenkeepers compete for cup
The annual Arran Greenkeepers Cup was played for at Lamlash Golf Club on Friday 30 August, 2013 between the island’s greenkeepers and apprentices. Seventeen played in the nine-hole stableford...
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Danny is player of the year
The end of season prizes were presented for the football league on Saturday and the main prize, the players’ player of the year, awarded to Southend centre back Danny Head who just pipped his fellow...
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