PUPILS at a Greenock school are reaching new heights thanks to a new £8,000 obstacle course. Youngsters at St Joseph s Primary are having fun and keeping fit at break times thanks to the new climbing frame. It is the latest addition to the Wren Road revamped playground, to make outdoor learning more accessible. Acting head teacher Mark Deegan said: We have been working on the playground experience and, after Covid, developing it further to increase opportunities. We bought an outdoor classroom and we are getting a new canopy for that and reading sheds. Head teacher Alan Graham bought the sandpit two years ago so the climbing frame is part of a bigger plan we ve been working on for the past few years.
A DEVASTATED Greenock family have spoken of their pain after losing a second child to an undiagnosed heart condition. Neil and Susan Holleran lost their beautiful daughter Megan in April 2007 when she passed away very suddenly at the age of just six-and-a-half. Last June tragedy struck again when Megan s brother Zachary tragically passed away aged 14. Parents Neil and Susan say that the loss of Zachary 13 years after Megan left them - and the teenager s other siblings Bryan, Alisha, Marc, Neil and Lynn - distraught. Neil, 68, said: We re still not over Megan and now we ve lost Zachary. We just have to take things a day at a time.