A LARGS teen was making the headlines in 2008 as top Scottish teams battled it out for the local football 'wonderkid'.

Rangers were bidding to snap up a Largs Academy pupil Euan Lindsay from his current club of Hamilton Accies.

The 15-year-old was tipped for the very top of the game - but he simply couldn't make up his mind who he wanted to get there with!

Euan was set to make it to the first team with Hamilton when Rangers scouts attempted to lure the teen away.

In other news Largs Rotary Club celebrated its golden anniversary at a gala dinner in the Willowbank Hotel, with a score of past presidents in attendance.

Former president and local solicitor Robin Mactaggart, son of the founding president of 1958, Alex Mactaggart, told the gathering that in its 50 years the club had raised £500,000 for charity.

The Largs Viking Festival chairman Elisabethe Marshall told a council committee that it was business as usual despite fears the annual event was in jeopardy.

During a North Coast committee meeting, a grant application had been made by the Viking Festival for funds towards the event from the Common Good Fund, but a decision has been put on hold.

Councillor Alan Hill told the 'News' that the committee had to be convinced the festival would go ahead before funds would be released following the concerns of its future.

A Largs swimming club for pensioners looked set to sink after proposals to provide free swimming for OAPs were drowned out due to party politics.

The Largs Opportunities in Retirement’s swimming section were disbanding after holding out for months in the hope that the free offer would be put in place, in a similar vein to Glasgow and Inverclyde councils.

However, the SNP group who made the pledge in their manifesto, admitted they had been beaten by party politics as no other party political parties backed them.

Cumbrae Community Council feared that work to extend Largs Pier could take years to complete, leading to huge disruption for local residents.

Members of the island committee feared a similar fate as similar improvements which were being made at Rothesay Pier which had became bogged down by delays.

A Largs couple celebrated their diamond anniversary after meeting each other in a local dairy just after the second world war.

Largs pooches gathered at St Columba's Episcopal Hall for a special dog training class.

In Sport Largs Thistle manager Sandy McLean revealed that he had targeted four new players to strengthen the squad for next season but reckoned that the ratio of goals from strikers was good in the previous season.