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Helensburgh Living Well Together event to come to town next weekend
Helensburgh locals can find out about a wide range of local community groups at a wellbeing event next weekend. The Living Well Together event will take place on Sunday, June 16 in the Helensburgh Leisure Centre from 2pm to 5pm. Several groups
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PICTURES: Babcock Helensburgh 10K sees 770 runners hit streets of the town
CALUM JOHNSON delivered against high expectations on his first appearance in the Babcock Helensburgh 10K on Thursday. The Gateshead runner, surprisingly wearing an East Kilbride vest, was quickly to the fore against a field of 770 entries, the
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Local dancers taste success at Helensburgh and Lomond Highland Games
Town dancers were all smiles as they won trophies and prizes at the weekend. The Margaret Rose School of Dance sent a big contingent of dancers to the Helensburgh and Lomond Highland Games and every child who took part won medals. Isla Flint
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Scot Squad's Jack Docherty to lift lid on time with David Bowie during Cove show
A BAFTA award-winning Scottish comic is set to shed light on the parallels between his own life and that of David Bowie at a show in Cove Burgh Hall. Jack Docherty, star of the 1990s cult TV sketch show Absolutely and more recently of the BBC sitcom
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Golf: Husband and wife pair triumph in Helensburgh's first open tournament of 2024
THE husband and wife pairing of Denise and Stephen Donald secured victory in Helensburgh Golf Club’s first open tournament of the year, the Rosebowl competition. The mixed pairs competition is played in a stableford greensomes format and saw Denise
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Robert MacIntyre promises to pay off parents’ mortgage after first PGA Tour win
OBAN golfer Robert MacIntyre pledged that his parents will be “mortgage free” after his father Dougie helped him win his first PGA Tour title in the RBC Canadian Open. MacIntyre carded a final round of 68 at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club to
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'Great sadness' as famous Argyll and Bute cinema closes, all staff lose jobs
A "famous" Argyll and Bute cinema dating back to the 1950s has been placed into provisional liquidation, with the coronavirus pandemic and rising costs blamed, and an appeal to save it has been launched. All eight staff at Oban Phoenix Cinema have
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PICTURES: Sunshine and smiles all round at the Helensburgh and Lomond Highland Games
BIG crowds and glorious sunshine made sure the Helensburgh and Lomond Highland Games was a huge success on Saturday. The combination of Highland dancing, athletics, the ever-popular heavy events, music from the Helensburgh Clan Colquhoun Pipe Band
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Fundraising quiz night promises to be great laugh at community hall in Rhu
A fundraising quiz night is promising to provide plenty of laughs in Rhu this week. Members of the Rhu Primary School Association (RPSA) are holding the event on Friday, June 7 at Rhu Community Hall from 7.30pm. People are more than welcome
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'We cannot arrest our way out': Police vow road speeding 'detection' and 'education'
Speeding and other motoring offences are being tackled in all parts of Helensburgh and Lomond, police have vowed. Despite limited resources, Police Scotland vowed road safety was a top priority and they were responding to reports of trouble hotspots
