HOLLYWOOD star Scarlett Johansson celebrated her birthday in Devol, Port Glasgow while filming sci-fi movie Under The Skin.  |  Read more

THE only road into a Greenock housing estate was closed for much of the day after workmen broke a gas main.  |  Read more

DEMOLITION started in February 2015 and took several months. Propped against the wall of one of the old gym areas was a huge wedding photograph of former Waterloo Road cast members Jaye Jacobs and Alex Walkinshaw who played teachers Sian and Jez Diamond. It was among furniture and other items including decorative...

AROUND 100 former pupils of Greenock Academy gathered for what will probably be a last look inside their old school building — on its 50th birthday.

LOCAL performers from Sideline Productions staged Little Shop Of Horrors at Greenock Arts Guild in June 2008.  |  Click for more photos

TEN Years Ago Today — A tradesman’s van burst into flames in Battery Park, Greenock, on 14 May 2008.  |  Read more

THE Laughing Stock Theatre Company staged classic musical Me And My Girl in May 2008.  |  Read more

INVERCLYDE residents are to be offered a radical solution to the winter blues — local public agencies are to give people the chance to hibernate during January.

THERE will be no celebration today (1 April) to mark a decade of free swimming for Inverclyde’s over-60s — the 10-year anniversary of that initiative happens to coincide with its demise.  |  Read more

TEN Years Ago — Young performers from Kayos Theatre Company staged West Side Story at the Arts Guild Theatre, Greenock. (March 2008)  |  Click for more photos

TEN Years Ago — A trial to see if passenger hovercraft could operate on the river between Inverclyde and Glasgow was held. (March 2008)  |  Read more

TEN Years Ago — Singer Amy Macdonald played to a packed Greenock Town Hall, performing a special gig for 12 to 25-year-olds. (28 February 2008)  |  Click for more

TEN Years Ago — A massive fire engulfed the former Gantock Hotel in Gourock  (16 February 2008)  |  Click for more

TEN Years Ago — Flames ripped through the masonic hall in John Street, Gourock. (11 February 2008)  |  Click for more

April Fool

A PLAN to convert a historic Port Glasgow building into flats was branded as “awful” and “horrible” by councillors but was still voted through by Inverclyde Planning Board.