LITERARY PLAUDIT: Author Edna O’Brien after winning the Femina Foreign Literary Prize 2019 for her book Girl, in Paris, France. The Femina prize was founded in 1904 by the review Femina and is given annually for the best novel published in France. Photograph: Julien De Rosa/EPA
Category: Helensburgh
SMOKE’S UP AT SHEDDY’S
Bachelor farmers are a dying breed; men who were monastic without choice; condemned to it by the long life of a parent who wouldn’t hand over the land, the lack of social opportunities, or just simply the poverty that clung like a bad smell to their shiny suits, in every ballroom from Glenfarne to Drumlish.
EVEREST CLIMB FOR MARIE CURIE NURSES …
Local residents have made a fantastic effort to raise funds for Marie Curie over the years and the donations have helped with funding research as well as supplying high tech equipment for the hospices and employing more vital staff.”
SIR BOYD JOINS NAVY FOR A CUPPA AND A TUNNOCK’S CARAMEL WAFER
Commodore Bob Anstey with Sir Boyd Tunnock CBE as they sign the Armed Forces Covenant onboard an Astute Class Submarine at Faslane. Pictures by the
HEALTH BOARD CHAIRMAN’S AWARDS NIGHT
Approximately 400 NHS staff gathered together this week to celebrate ‘all that is great about the NHS’ and announce this year’s Chairman Award winners at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow.
FIREWORKS DISPLAY FROM DUMBARTON ROCK BY ALAN RUINE
Pictures by Alan Ruine