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Joanne Durnan with her painted portrait A CLYDEBANK Sea Cadet has been given a prestigious award and will represent the area at events for the next year. Joanne Durnan, a S4 pupil at St Peter the Apostle High, has received the Lord Lieutenant Cadet Award after six years in cadets. Each year Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenants appoint young people to serve as the Lord Lieutenants Cadets for their respective regions. As a Lord Lieutenant’s Cadet, Joanne will assist the Lord Lieutenant, Jill Young, MBE with her duties which can involve being on parade for royal visits, attending Remembrance events and acting as an ambassador for the Sea Cadets and the county. ....
The Trust wants a building to rivel the Titanic Museum or the Guggenheim A BID has been launched for West Dunbartonshire to have a centre celebrating the town s shipbuilding heritage to rival the Guggenheim in Bilbao and Titanic n Belfast. The Ship Yard Trust was recently formed to take forward ideas and get Bankies on side for their dream of a building worthy of the area s heritage. Retiring MSP Gil Paterson is chair of the group with artist and former John Brown s apprentice Tom McKendrick also on the board. The Trust said their ambitious goal was for the quality of the building to equal attractions such as the Guggenheim, Titanic Museum and V&A in Dundee. ....
THE Luftwaffe bombers had long since returned to their Continental bases, their nights’ work done. On Clydeside, rescue squads were clawing without cease at the pulverised remains of houses, searching for survivors amidst scenes of surreal, unending horror. Busloads of people were already making their way to the area, looking for parents, relatives, lovers, fearful of what they might find. Among them was Mary A. Carson, the editor of the Women s Topic pages in this newspaper since 1931, whose nom de plume was Jean Kelvin. “We have walked along those devastated streets,” she subsequently wrote, “crunching all the time over littered glass speedily being swept into the gutters. We have seen those shattered modest homes. If one looked for it, no doubt there was the lighter side – two children dancing unconcernedly on a novel stage, the cleared and windowless frontage of a shop; and the incongruous, those odd personal items standing still intact before gaping wa ....