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A NEW edition of John Logie Baird's memoirs “Television and Me” which has been released as an 'ebook' by Edinburgh publishers Birlinn Ltd.

THE ROYAL MINT is marking the 75th anniversary of John Logie Baird’s death with the release on January 1 of a special 50 pence piece.

A NOVEL just published features a young Spanish girl who comes to Helensburgh in the 19th century, stays to live here, and how her life develops.

THE War Memorial Families Project in Helensburgh launched a comprehensive new website on Remembrance Sunday.

A BOOK of photographs featuring the late Dr Jim Taggart of the Linn Gardens at Cove has just been published.

A LITTLE part of Glen Fruin can now be found at a golf club near Chicago.

A CONDITION survey on the 1962 replica of Henry Bell's Comet paddle steamer at Port Glasgow has found that it cannot be repaired and that a new hull would need to be built and stored in a climate-controlled building.

ONE of the carriage clocks presented to Helensburgh men who served in the Boer War was taken to Canada.

Owner Bernie Butler, an ex-pat Brit now living in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, wants to find out more about the man who received it, Lance Sergeant John McNicol (below).

A NEW book for children about TV inventor John Logie Baird has been published in America.

NEW information has come to light on John Logie Baird’s early research on television.

THE former St Peter's Seminary in Cardross has been handed over to a new educational trust — sparking renewed hope of a positive future for the internationally-famous ruin.

UPDATES for the Helensburgh Heritage Trust bicentenary book '200 Years of Helensburgh' have been compiled by the book's editor, Trust treasurer Stewart Noble.