Campbeltown Courier Anne S Paterson, former chief education officer, is being awarded an OBE. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall. However, To access all other news will require a subscription, as it did pre-pandemic.