QUOTE: “Credit people with intelligence to remain cautious and keep distance as they have been doing!”  |  Read more

A PHOTO that his father took in the late 1950s showing upper Gourock, including the old Gourock Juniors football pitch, brings back fascinating childhood memories for reader Alistair Dunsmore.  |  Read more

INVERCLYDE Now’s article about a whisky lorry overturning in Greenock 15 years ago reminded reader Alistair Dunsmore about a much older incident involving a bus in the 1970s.  |  Read more

QUOTE: “I have just moved into the area and took part in the local Santa dash. What a fab day!”  |  Read more

PLANNING officials have approved a high-quality, contemporary house with artist’s studio in Kilmacolm.  |  Read more

VOLUNTEERS from the Street Pastors project have now been out on the streets in Inverclyde on a weekly basis more than 400 times.  |  Read more

A REGISTERED blind user of the Waterfront leisure centre welcomes pedestrian crossing lights at busy Greenock junction…  |  Read more

GATE-crashing actress Scarlett Johansson’s birthday celebration as she filmed in Port Glasgow reminds editor Jeremy Burrows of his experience of another film shoot in the town  |  Read more

YEARS of heroin addiction brought David Harper to rock bottom but now he is set to use his nightmarish experience — and the faith which helped him escape — in his new role as a Christian youth worker.  |  Read more

A FORMER Greenock firefighter has played a crucial role in the writing of the Strathclyde brigade’s history – thanks to him being forced to leave it.  |  Read more

GARDENERS are being given some “hot tips” on how to take care of their plants and flowers in the current heatwave.  |  Read more

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

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

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

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

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