Guests from around the UK celebrate Burns Night

Jan 27, 2014 | AB30

Laurencekirk Burns Appreciation Group held their sixteenth Annual Burns Supper in Mearns Academy on Saturday night and were entertained to an thoroughly enjoyable evening of speeches and musical entertainment. Over 100 people attended the event to celebrate the birth...

Heritage Club members reminisce

Jan 24, 2014 | AB30

The January meeting of the Howe o’ the Mearns Heritage Club took place on 22nd and was as usual well attended. Mike Robson had been unable to arrange a guest speaker, so challenged the members to come prepared to present some of their own experiences from days...

Report on future of Academy Site

Jan 17, 2014 | AB30

At a public meeting held in the Academy on 15th January, Scott Leitch and Simpson Buglass of Halliday Fraser Munro and Graham and Sibbald gave a report on the options for the site. The preferred option is to create premises to support expansion of existing businesses...

Mearns Volunteers needed to help older people

Jan 13, 2014 | AB30

The Mearns & Coastal Healthy Living Network which works in partnership with statutory and voluntary organisations to deliver important local services to older people is finding it difficult to continue to meet demand for its services due to a shortage of...

London Calling for local designer

Jan 9, 2014 | Laurencekirk

Local bridal and evening wear designer Lorna Forbes of Exclusively Yours is to show a collection at the world-famous fashion event, London Fashion Week, next month. Her collection, called Rouge et Noir, will feature music of the same name, written by Dundee composer...

What do you know about Northhill POW camp?

Dec 17, 2013 | AB30

There has been a request on our Facebook page for information on the World War II prisoner of war camp at Northhill (Now Northhill Park) which lay between Laurencekirk and Auchenblae and was the only such camp in the area. The Howe o’ the Mearns Heritage Club...

Huge turnout for Laurencekirk Bonfire Night event

Nov 4, 2013 | Laurencekirk

The first community bonfire night event for almost 20 years was held in Laurencekirk on Sunday evening. The event, organised by Laurencekirk Business Club, was attended by two thousand people – double the number expected. The crowd enjoyed live music from local...

A90 Junction video presents case for a flyover

Oct 25, 2013 | AB30, Laurencekirk

A new video highlighting the dangers, anxieties and economic damage of the A90 junction has been added to YouTube. Produced by Peter Wolsey of Eyeline Media and Laurencekirk Villages in Control, it is aimed at showing the powers-that-be why a flyover is so desperately...

Business Club hear about Junction Campaign

Oct 8, 2013 | Laurencekirk

Laurencekirk Business Club devoted their latest meeting on 26th September to guest speaker Jill Fotheringham from the A90/A937 junction/flyover Campaign. She visited the group and spoke passionately about the cause’s developments and the need for its momentum to...

Family fun evening a great success!

Oct 7, 2013 | Laurencekirk

Local play centre Dizzy Rascals hosted a very successful event to raise funds for the Laurencekirk Bonfire Night & Fireworks Display to be held on Sat the 2nd of November 2013. Organised by Laurencekirk Business Club, the evening had huge support from the local...
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