UP to 650 houses could be built at the Inverkip Power Station site, according to plans that have gone on show to the public.  |  Read more

SNOW caused disruption on Inverclyde's roads this morning.  |  Read more

PORT Glasgow Boys' Club's 2004 teams faced each other at at Parklea.  |  Read more

A TAXI driver was allegedly robbed of cash at knifepoint in Greenock.  |  Read more

DALES Marine has been given the go-ahead to use its dry dock at Garvel, Greenock for breaking up ships.  |  Read more

THE PlayTalkRead bus is in Inverclyde this week.  |  Read more

THE New Chocolate Company in Port Glasgow has earned VisitScotland's highest quality award.  |  Read more

GREENOCK parkrun welcomed 125 participants to the five-kilometre Esplanade course.  |  Read more

EAST Fife have put Morton out of the Scottish Cup.  |  Read more

ENTRIES have opened for Pedal in the Park, the annual 100-kilometre road cycling challenge through the countryside of Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and North Ayrshire.  |  Read more

An item in a jewellery shop bag was left in Card Factory, Oak Mall, Greenock. The owner can collect it from the shop. Staff will ask what shop it is from, what the item is and how much it cost.

INVERCLYDE'S largest business network, Inverclyde Chamber of Commerce, has made two new appointments following a re-shuffle of the board of directors and is also seeking new board members.  |  Read more

TWELVE-year-old Emily Barron has become the first pupil from St Columba’s School, Kilmacolm to gain a place in the prestigious National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain. A number of other pupils are involved in Scotland-wide music groups.  |  Read more

A YEAR-long series of events marking the 200th anniversary of James Watt starts at 4.30pm on Friday (18 January) at Cowan’s Corner, Clyde Square, Greenock with the screening of two films about the Greenock-born inventor.

THE body of a 39-year-old man has been recovered from the Clyde at Greenock.  |  Read more

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TWISTERS Gymnastics Academy has applied for permission to use an industrial building at Muirshiel Lane, Port Glasgow as a gymnastics centre. The proposal is pending consideration by Inverclyde Council planners.

TEN-man Blackthorn maintained their 100 per cent record this season with a hard-fought but deserved victory.  |  Read more

GOUROCK athlete Georgia Morrison strode confidently to the top of the Scottish under-20 women 400-metre rankings at the National Indoor Open in Glasgow.  |  Read more

MAKING the news in January 2009 -- A large mobile crane left a country road and overturned into a field near Inverkip. It took around four weeks to recover and people enjoyed picnics on its tyres.  |  Read more

POLICE in Inverclyde are appealing for witnesses after several break-ins.  |  Read more

VIEWS at Battery Park, Greenock on Monday afternoon. Photos by Martina Franke  |  Click for more

FIREFIGHTERS were called after a wheelie bin was set on fire behind garages at Cardwell Road, Gourock around 4.30pm on Tuesday. Police urge any witnesses call 101 quoting incident 2571 of 15 January.

MATCH reports from Port Glasgow Boys' Club  |  Read more

WOMEN'S Enterprise Scotland (WES) has teamed up with Riverside Inverclyde (Ri) to run the first women’s leadership programme of its kind in the region.  |  Read more

SWIMMERS from Inverclyde Amateur Swimming Club headed to Tollcross for round one of the West District Long Course Age Group Championships.  |  Read more