"It is the loveliest job in a little paradise island" was how Suki McGregor - aka the Cumbrae Cludgie Cleaner’s described her new role scrubbing up the toilets, keeping them nice and adding wee touches along the way like soaps and hand cream, and soon becoming an internet hit with her ‘vlogs’. 
“The Duke spoke to me and I told him I served in Stornoway, and he said what did you do to deserve that?” Former Wren Jean Watson, 92, spoke to Prince Philip during the Queen’s Garden Party in Edinburgh, looking back at her time supporting North Atlantic convoys when they used to come in to re-fuel.
“Only in the Vic could you get a half pint of Snakebite and blackcurrant for 77p!” recalled Karolyn Gracie as the demolition of the former Vikki’s bar commenced for a new social housing development on Largs seafront.
It was the end of an era for Inverclyde Sports Centre principal John Kent who retired after 37 years working for Sportscotland, and having overseen the transformation of the centre into an all inclusive £12m state of the art building.

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He said: “It is a national centre open to all and puts sport first. It seems a good time to leave, and I am very proud of the legacy. When the Queen visited in 2012, she asked if her father’s money was well invested. It was Lord Inverclyde who was the chairman of the sports council who knew King George VI and persuaded him to put the money up to buy the Hills Hotel and convert it into a national sports centre in 1958. It is great to see the centre benefitting everyone with top class facilities.
“When Prince Edward came to visit this year as Patron of the Paralympic Association, he was amazed at facilities.”
Island copper Michael Emans received an unusual call on a seemingly quiet Monday afternoon when he was informed that a light aircraft had landed on the B896 road to the west of the Isle of Cumbrae: “I nearly fell off my chair!”

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Wherever you go, always take the weather with you, sang Crowded House, but Lewis McAulay was hoping it wasn’t true after a wet Scottish summer ... “I had wind and rain in my face all the way down Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. I did have one nice day on the Tuesday!” cyclist extraordinaire Lewis of Fairlie speaking in the midst of his 1500 mile solo cycle from Norway to France.
“At 12.30pm the noise from boats and people on the shoreline was deafening, so much so that if the councillors in Irvine had bothered to listen I am sure they would have heard it,” co-ordinator of the Save Millport Pier campaign Mari Wallace reports from a successful horn-tooting protest of local vessels on the seafront.
Largs businessman John Corrigan surprised the community by the destination of the van on the roof at various premises in the town. He promised: “We have future plans for the van - we will have to wait and see where it comes up next, but it will re-appear to the public’s delight for all to see.”

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X Factor’s commercial break singing fish fryer Shaun Hamilton was starstruck when he was invited to the X Factor VIP finals in London: “I arrived at 5.30pm and was taken up to the Platinum Suite, where Emily Middlemas performed, and I got a picture with Emily. She came up to me and said ‘You are the guy who performs on the Just Eat commercials just before the ad break - you are just as famous as me!”