THE search has started for the Inverclyde sportspeople who have excelled this year.  |  Read more

PORT Glasgow railway station remains Inverclyde's busiest according to latest annual figures. Several local stations had large variations on the previous year.  |  Read more

A 24-YEAR-old man was arrested for alleged intent to commit theft following a chase by police in Gourock.  |  Read more

THE Choir Brigade is holding a Christmas concert on Sunday 23 December.  |  Read more

SWIMMERS from Port Glasgow Otters competed at two national championships as part of the West of Scotland swim team.  |  Read more

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MOVING house and looking for short-term storage space while you relocate? Rent a unit at Captain Street Industrial Estate for only £40 a week.  |  Read more

CENTRAL Dental Lab Scotland have applied for permission to change the use of premises at 20 Moss Road, Port Glasgow from a shop to a dental laboratory. The proposal is pending assessment by Inverclyde planning officials.

LATEST vacancies from Inverclyde Jobcentre Plus include youth worker and HGV driver...  |  Read more

SCHOOLS, individuals and voluntary organisations in south west Greenock, are among the wide variety of applicants to Oak Tree Housing Association’s Our Community, Our Future £35,000 fund.  |  Read more

THE Gourock to Dunoon ferry service will transfer to CalMac when the current contract ends next month, becoming part of the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services network.  |  Read more

YOUNGSTERS will be able to make Christmas crafts at Inverclyde libraries on Saturday 22 December. Craft material will be available in the children's sections of all local libraries from 10am to noon that day, except South West, Greenock which is closed on Saturdays.

INVERCLYDE Amateur Swimming Club was represented by eight swimmers at the Scottish National Short Course Championships in Edinburgh.  |  Read more

POLICE were called to a report of a fight involving two men in Greenock.  |  Read more

INVERCLYDE Ramblers head to Largs on Saturday (15 December) for a four-mile walk through Castlehill and Douglas Park, visiting an Iron Age hill fort and a chambered tomb. Walkers meet up at Largs Train Station at 10am.  |  Inverclyde Ramblers 

A 46-YEAR-old man was arrested for alleged possession of drugs and an offensive weapon -- a knuckle duster -- around 10am (Tuesday) in Roxburgh Street, Greenock. He is expected to appear at Greenock Sheriff Court from custody .

INVERCLYDE Council is hoping to attract a developer for the former Babylon nightclub site in Greenock town centre.  |  Read more

A 48-YEAR-old man is due to appear at Greenock Sheriff Court for allegedly stealing a charity collection tin, assault and breach of the peace at the funeral directors in Jamaica Street, Greenock on Tuesday.

FIREFIGHTERS tackled a small blaze at West College Scotland's Finnart campus on Tuesday evening. The college said the campus woul dbe open as normal today.

SCOTRAIL has halved the number of times a day that it uses 40-year-old trains on Inverclyde's railway lines.  |  Read more

THE former Wemyss Bay Hotel has been demolished to make way for a new Co-op store.  |  Click for more

SCOTLAND'S deputy chief medical officer has urged parents of two to five-year-olds not yet vaccinated against flu to make a GP appointment.  |  Read more

THE local branch of Home-Start, a national family support charity, has received a donation of £2,000 from the Amazon fulfilment centre in Gourock.  |  Read more

TASTE Inverclyde is now able to share the first images of the renovated Albert Guest House, Gourock following a six-figure investment.  |  Read more