Largs was going for gold in 2003 as it made an ambitious bid to host the 2012 Olympic sailing events.

North Ayrshire Council were heavily promoting the move which would bring enormous financial and economic spin-offs to the area.

In his report to the full council, Leader David O’Neill said that the United Kingdom would bid to host the Olympics in London, but with other parts of Britain also to be involved he hoped Largs would be considered.

Local woman Chrissie Grant, born in 1896, celebrated her 107th birthday surrounded by her closest family and friends.

The Scottish Executive Health Department approved the £4.9million business case for the new North West Ayrshire Resource and Health Centre in Largs.

The scheme, led by NHS Ayrshire and Arran, was to provide a ‘campus’ of primary care services comprising a new resource centre to be built on the site adjacent to the existing Moorburn Road community clinic.

This was to see the release of the existing clinic site for development, with the Brooksby Day Hospital reorganised and extended to accommodate additional services, which would enable it to perform the role of a treatment centre.

Largs Community Council voiced strong reservations about the reduction in storm overflow storage capacity for the new multi-million pound sewage works development

They argued that since Largs hosts a number of sailing championships and watersports events all year round, suitable clean waters at the local bay were a necessity.

Two vintage railway posters advertising Largs as a holiday resort were expected to fetch a total of £1,200 at Christie’s in London.

Both posters were produced for British Railways, possibly in the 1950s and were among around 200 British and Irish travel posters expected to fetch tens of thousands of pounds at the famous annual sale.

Millport business people were prepared to go to jail to fight water rate increases of up to one thousand per cent.

The small island community threw down the gauntlet at a meeting with Scottish Water in Millport as they told the body that they were prepared to fight.

The Viking Festival was in full swing as the annual parade kicked off the festivities.

In Sport Thistle's Stephen Quigg returned to the team in a game against Ardeer Thistle, marking the tenth anniversary his Scottish Cup triumph with the club.