GARDENERS are being given some “hot tips” on how to take care of their plants and flowers in the current heatwave. | Read more
Features
THE Triumphs — And Tragedy — Of Greenock MP Hector McNeil
TOM Stevenson looks back at the life of Hector McNeil — and his personal experience of him — for the many who have no idea who he was. | Read more
THE Miliband-Wagon Trying To Avoid Being Scunnered
LABOUR leader Ed Miliband could have been forgiven for needing a translation after one particular question during a low-key visit to Port Glasgow. | Read more
PITCH Perfect As Mark Celebrates A Decade At Cappielow
MANY managers and players have come and gone at Morton in recent years but one fans’ hero, regularly winning titles for the club, has just celebrated a decade at Cappielow. | Read more
THE Curtain’s Coming Down For Mark On Organising Kayos
KAYOS Theatre Company’s founding director Mark Barclay is bowing out after more than 20 years of bringing the satisfaction of drama and performing into the lives of many of Inverclyde’s young people. He had a chat with Inverclyde Now writer Jeremy Burrows ahead of his final show, Miss Saigon, being staged this week. | Read more
FEELING Blue At Deserted Spango Valley
THERE was no ceremony or announcement to mark the end of IBM’s decades-long presence at the massive business site it created at Spango Valley, Greenock. But there are big clues… | Read more
MARKING Six Decades Of IBM In Greenock’s Valley Of Opportunity
IBM Greenock employee number 49, Tom Stevenson, looks back on the firm’s contribution to Inverclyde, exactly 60 years since a ceremony was held to mark the opening of the factory at Spango Valley. | Read more
GOOD Samaritan Bus Is First Stop For Many On Journey Of Hope
INVERCLYDE Now writer Jeremy Burrows spends an evening on the Teen Challenge outreach bus in Greenock which provides support for vulnerable people, especially addicts. | Read more
WARTIME Clyde Tug Tragedy Remembered 75 Years On
THE 75th anniversary of the sinking of a tug at Gourock has been marked by the nephew of one of the 16 crewmen who died in the tragedy, at the virtually unmarked grave in a local cemetery where his uncle and two other victims were buried. | Read more
SUPER Yacht Crewman Cycles Up Lyle Hill, Greenock, 100 Times In 17 Hours
THE chief engineer of a super yacht berthed in Greenock for much of the summer has claimed the town’s Lyle Hill as one of his ‘Everests’ after cycling up it 100 times in a day. | Read more
DISTILLERY Marks Latest Chapter In Ardgowan Estate’s Colourful 600-Year History
AMBITIOUS plans for a distillery mark the latest chapter in the colourful 600-year history of Ardgowan Estate, which has links to Pocahontas and King Robert the Bruce. Its owner Sir Ludovic Shaw-Stewart is looking forward to the first dram. | Click for more
ENGINEERING Career Was ‘God’s Way Of Getting Ann Ready To Be A Minister’
A GOUROCK mum who was so shy when she left school that she “didn’t have the nerve to go to university and could never have imagined speaking in public” has become a church minister. | Click for more
LOCAL History — Highland Mary — A Life Too Short
ROBERT Burns’s brief affair with ‘Highland’ Mary is one of the most intriguing aspects of the poet’s life. David Carnduff looks at the romance which ended with Mary’s tragic death in Greenock.
LOCAL History — A Matter Of Life And Death When The Press Gang Sailed Up The Clyde
THE hardened sailors of Greenock in the 1800s lived in such fear of the Navy’s Press Gang that they disguised themselves as women. David Carnduff looks at remarkable accounts of a sinister time in the town’s history. | Click for more
HOW Police Persistence Finally Paid Off In The Elaine Doyle Murder Inquiry
NEARLY 20 years after the murder of Greenock teenager Elaine Doyle, detectives decided to see if some bits of sticky tape held the key to finally solving the shocking crime. | Read more
ARMED With The Gift Of The Gab
INVERCLYDE Now writer Jeremy Burrows joined two wardens on duty in east central Greenock. | Read more
Features
CARDWELL Expert’s ‘Hot Tips’ For Gardening In The Heatwave
GARDENERS are being given some “hot tips” on how to take care of their plants and flowers in the current heatwave. | Read more
THE Triumphs — And Tragedy — Of Greenock MP Hector McNeil
TOM Stevenson looks back at the life of Hector McNeil — and his personal experience of him — for the many who have no idea who he was. | Read more
THE Miliband-Wagon Trying To Avoid Being Scunnered
LABOUR leader Ed Miliband could have been forgiven for needing a translation after one particular question during a low-key visit to Port Glasgow. | Read more
PITCH Perfect As Mark Celebrates A Decade At Cappielow
MANY managers and players have come and gone at Morton in recent years but one fans’ hero, regularly winning titles for the club, has just celebrated a decade at Cappielow. | Read more
THE Curtain’s Coming Down For Mark On Organising Kayos
KAYOS Theatre Company’s founding director Mark Barclay is bowing out after more than 20 years of bringing the satisfaction of drama and performing into the lives of many of Inverclyde’s young people. He had a chat with Inverclyde Now writer Jeremy Burrows ahead of his final show, Miss Saigon, being staged this week. | Read more
FEELING Blue At Deserted Spango Valley
THERE was no ceremony or announcement to mark the end of IBM’s decades-long presence at the massive business site it created at Spango Valley, Greenock. But there are big clues… | Read more
MARKING Six Decades Of IBM In Greenock’s Valley Of Opportunity
IBM Greenock employee number 49, Tom Stevenson, looks back on the firm’s contribution to Inverclyde, exactly 60 years since a ceremony was held to mark the opening of the factory at Spango Valley. | Read more
GOOD Samaritan Bus Is First Stop For Many On Journey Of Hope
INVERCLYDE Now writer Jeremy Burrows spends an evening on the Teen Challenge outreach bus in Greenock which provides support for vulnerable people, especially addicts. | Read more
WARTIME Clyde Tug Tragedy Remembered 75 Years On
THE 75th anniversary of the sinking of a tug at Gourock has been marked by the nephew of one of the 16 crewmen who died in the tragedy, at the virtually unmarked grave in a local cemetery where his uncle and two other victims were buried. | Read more
SUPER Yacht Crewman Cycles Up Lyle Hill, Greenock, 100 Times In 17 Hours
THE chief engineer of a super yacht berthed in Greenock for much of the summer has claimed the town’s Lyle Hill as one of his ‘Everests’ after cycling up it 100 times in a day. | Read more
DISTILLERY Marks Latest Chapter In Ardgowan Estate’s Colourful 600-Year History
AMBITIOUS plans for a distillery mark the latest chapter in the colourful 600-year history of Ardgowan Estate, which has links to Pocahontas and King Robert the Bruce. Its owner Sir Ludovic Shaw-Stewart is looking forward to the first dram. | Click for more
ENGINEERING Career Was ‘God’s Way Of Getting Ann Ready To Be A Minister’
A GOUROCK mum who was so shy when she left school that she “didn’t have the nerve to go to university and could never have imagined speaking in public” has become a church minister. | Click for more
LOCAL History — Highland Mary — A Life Too Short
ROBERT Burns’s brief affair with ‘Highland’ Mary is one of the most intriguing aspects of the poet’s life. David Carnduff looks at the romance which ended with Mary’s tragic death in Greenock.
LOCAL History — A Matter Of Life And Death When The Press Gang Sailed Up The Clyde
THE hardened sailors of Greenock in the 1800s lived in such fear of the Navy’s Press Gang that they disguised themselves as women. David Carnduff looks at remarkable accounts of a sinister time in the town’s history. | Click for more
HOW Police Persistence Finally Paid Off In The Elaine Doyle Murder Inquiry
NEARLY 20 years after the murder of Greenock teenager Elaine Doyle, detectives decided to see if some bits of sticky tape held the key to finally solving the shocking crime. | Read more
ARMED With The Gift Of The Gab
INVERCLYDE Now writer Jeremy Burrows joined two wardens on duty in east central Greenock. | Read more
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