The first sunny day for a while in Kilcreggan, so two pix from my morning commute on the ferry to Gourock, then two from the return leg. Now back home with a coal fire!

Here are some of the latest developments in the strange story of how four public bodies are trying to spend over £9m on a very large breakwater and pontoon in the village of Kilcreggan, despite nobody asking for this.

Lochside Press partners with Google UK and PingNewsUK to showcase independent community journalism in 'watershed' moment - thanks to @ICNNUK for all their work on this thelochsidepress.com/2023/03/17/loc…

Well done Courtney Cameron , it was a great debut by a Glasgow Caledonian University alumni - and your former classmate Louise Scott was covering the big story for the UK!

The end of a great newsweek for our Glasgow Caledonian University MA Multimedia Journalism students - four days of radio, TV, online and of course print stories for Glasgow Standard

🆕 Presenters on day one of the three-day conference included Dr Ben McConville and Julian Calvert, of Glasgow Caledonian, who highlighted the decline in rural journalism.

Well done to all concerned - and Glasgow Caledonian University alumnus Adam Lyon!

A news update like no other from Glasgow Caledonian University alumnus Calum Leslie 😊😊😊

Many thanks to @RealMacKaySTV and everyone at STV News for welcoming our new MA students today - it was great to meet so many Glasgow Caledonian University alumni in the newsroom!

In case anyone was wondering what I do during my holidays ☺️ I think this pollution incident stemming from a pipeline running from Loch Long to Grangemouth is being seriously downplayed

Great to see 3 alumni from BJTC - Industry Accredited Journalism Courses and NCTJ accredited multimedia courses at Glasgow Caledonian University nominated in the 2024 Commercial Radio News Awards - congratulations to Alan Zycinski Fraser Knight and Guy Stewart ! irnawards.co.uk

From The Lochside Press: Shocking increase in plastic litter on beaches revealed The amount of plastic litter found on beaches in Argyll and Bute has almost trebled in 30 years, a new report has revealed. scottishbeacon.com/news/environme…

There were bizarre scenes at Lochgilphead when a tied vote saw leadership of the council decided by cutting cards, with candidates backed by the SNP, Labour and some independents winning both times. wp.me/p8db2r-7YA

📚We are pleased to release research today which finds NCTJ diploma alumni are nearly three times more likely to land a journalism job within 15 months than the journalism graduate population overall. Read more and access the report below👇 #chooseNCTJ nctj.com/news/nctj-dipl…

Well done to all our Glasgow Caledonian University MA Multimedia Journalism students who’ve just finished their assessed newsweek - a busy day for news in Scotland but their front page looked great (as did the one they had to ditch this morning!)

Oh, there she is… 👀 What a nice post from Glasgow Caledonian University Alumni. Sometimes I feel pure jammy working at BBC Scotland News. It’s an absolute privilege getting to speak to - and work with - so many inspiring people. ❤️ Cally played a big part in getting in the door.

Supertankers have been sailing into Loch Long for decades to connect with Grangemouth via a 58-mile pipeline. Today Petroineos said the facility would close, with 20 people losing their jobs. wp.me/p8db2r-8Gh

The autumn view from Kilcreggan, last night and this morning

Many thanks to everyone at BBC Scotland who made time to answer questions from some of the new Glasgow Caledonian University MA Multimedia Journalism students who visited the studios and newsroom today. Here’s to another great year!

Well done to Sian Maher - great result only a few months after graduating with an MA in Multimedia Journalism! Glasgow Caledonian University NCTJ BJTC - Industry Accredited Journalism Courses