What an excellent episode on an important topic. Stranraer Development Trust's Chairman Romano Petrucci spoke with Rachel Stewart just as this year's festival was about to start, sharing the story of how our festival is helping drive the economic regeneration of our community 🦪

Whoop more coverage for fabulous Stranraer Oyster Festival on Landward last night. PRing for Lorna Young bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Interesting thread on infrastructure, but perhaps more interesting on the consequences of not listening to what places say they need

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better. And a little fox picture from a couple of years ago with words from (I think) Albert Einstein.

Really sorry to hear this. Our thoughts are with David at this sad time.

Moving tribute to farming & environmental pioneer Wilma Finlay who died at 69 & ran Rainton Farm in Dumfries & Galloway with her husband David on R4's Last Word. Talks abt their ethical dairy & cow-with-calf dairy farming with Lorna Young. From 20.10 in. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Quite the contrary. Don’t you feel embarrassed to be sending messages like this in response to an obituary programme? BBC Radio 4 Compassion in World Farming UK

Astonishing that a professional journalist, and a contributor to The Guardian The Telegraph Metro The Independent The Spectator would send messages like these to someone speaking about the death of a friend on BBC Radio 4's Last Word obituary programme

Delighted to see Stranraer growing it's reputation as a world-class water sports destination! From July 6th to July 12th, the SkiffieWorlds will be hosting a record-breaking 79 rowing clubs, from across 4 continents, at the world championship event.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. - Carl Sagan

PRing for SkiffieWorlds2025 delighted to see Adam Wilson of Eskmuthe Rowing Club on the front page of Edinburgh Evening News he is competing in Stranraer and has discovered he is a distant relation of Victorian heroine, Grace Darling. Thanks to Colin Hattersley for the amazing images.

PRing for Lorna Young and Stranraer Water Sports Association for SkiffieWorlds 2025 What an amazing event to have been involved with. Thanks goes to everyone who has helped make it all possible. stranraerwatersports.com/news/skiffiewo…

Teamwork, sunshine & skiffs ❤️

Thanks to Craig Williams for covering the marine science programme at this year's Stranraer Oyster Festival Cat Thomson writes

‼️ Coming soon. Head to adairystory.com for news about this documentary feature about our farm.

What a fab weekend at Stranraer Oyster Festival! I have lots of pics and clips to share of a brilliant event. ✨ #stranraeroysterfestival #oysterfest #stranraer #oysterfestival #oysters #visitscotland #galloway Stranraer Oyster Festival

Lovely independent documentary made by talented individuals Lorna Young and Ian Finlay which won ‘Best Documentary’ at IndieCork Film Festival. You can see it Macrobert Arts Centre It tells the incredible story of Wilma & David The Ethical Dairy #cowwithcalf insta @adairystoryfilm

Ian and I are so grateful for the support for our film, both by IndieCork Film Festival and our local media. We're looking forward to organising screenings in D&G, but before then the UK premiere is at Central Scotland Documentary Festival in Stirling on 1st November.

Thank you to Compassion in World Farming UK for helping to raise awareness of the work of The Ethical Dairy and for mentioning our film, adairystory.com

Unusual film about a herd of Scottish cows is cleaning up at movie award events thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/1…