Dan McCurdy 2011 Newspapers

Newspaper Features:

Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald. Headline 'Jim'll Fix It.'

Marathon fundraiser Jim Montgomerie will bring fireworks back to Saltcoats after a two year absence. The dad was disappointed the town had no Bonfire night celebrations, so he raised cash for the event by running down the beautiful Brazilian coast during the Rio De Janerio Marathon. Fit Jim has already completed races in New York, London and the Great Wall of Chine. He also took part in a gruelling 95 mile run across the Sahara Desert and a 30 mile run across the North Pole, with a broken foot he got in the Sahara...... (etc)

Helensburgh Advertiser. Headline 'The Road to Fruin.'

Chris Rea told us about the "Road to Hell." David Byrne and Talking Head warned us about "The Road to Nowhere." Has anyone, I wonder, penned a song about The Road through Glen Fruin? Rather less romantically, the A817 takes the traveller from the A82 at Loch Lomond to Garelochead or of course and logically, vice-versa. Built in 1987 originally for MOD use to supply the submarine base at Faslane, the A817 was upgraded in 1995 and handed over for public use.

Results of a recent survey by the Civil Service Motoring Association, CSMA, put the 9 or 10 mile (depending on which report you read) at number 5 in "Britain's top 5 most scenic highways and byways, as voted for by the British Public, or at least 3,000 of them. The Road to Fruin rises and falls some commentators say at "amazing angles," rising to over 1,000 feet above Glen Fruin....... (etc)