LOCH LOMOND and the Maid of the Loch steamer featured on a BBC1 Scotland TV programme on Monday September 30.

It was the second weekly episode of a five-week series entitled 'Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands', produced by Paul Murton of Glasgow's Timeline Films.

THE 125^th anniversary of the birth of Helensburgh-born TV inventor John Logie Baird was marked by a motion proposed at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

Local MSP Jackie Baillie proposed the motion, which was supported by a cross-party group of 19 other members.

HELENSBURGH Heritage Trust is backing a campaign to ensure that a World War One hero from Cardross is not left out of official commemorations.

The government is to create memorials to Victoria Cross winners as part of next year's events to mark the centenary of the conflict. But Lieutenant Reginald Noble Graham, who served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, may be omitted as he was born in India.