Largs & Millport Weekly News. » Opinion

A good local Samaritan in an age of greed

Editor Drew Cochrane looks at the global financial crisis and highlights the need for good deads instead of greed in society.

'Scandal' of elderly being sent from island

A leading member of the Cumbrae Elderly Forum has hit out in a letter about the disgrace of forcing sick old people to leave the island.

"Lunatics are running the asylum ... again!"

Editor Drew Cochrane's weekly take on the "News".

Fairlie's "Black Hole" Experiment

"Your headline last week gave me hope. The detail dashed it..."

Why Largs twinned with French town

In response to Mr. Woods letter about town twinning, firstly let me reassure him that there is no junketing involved in foreign trips but each committee member who visits our agreed twin – Andernos-les- Bains in France – pays their own fares and expenses.

Memories of Millport Sinclair C5s

"I am researching the Sinclair C5 for a new museum display, and am trying to find people who used these in the 80s....

Why does Largs not twin with Barga?

"Having read our local paper over the past week or so one or two items have given me food for thought and raised questions, some that may very well have been answered in the past and others that remain to be answered..."

'A78 traffic dilemma would affect Seamill instead'

Haulage problems persist on the A78.