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Attack on man 'attempted murder'The 31-year-old was assaulted during a disturbance at a flat in Greenock at about 0020 GMT on Tuesday. He sustained serious injuries and was taken by ambulance to Inverclyde Royal Hospital where his condition was described as stable. In this article: Greenock and Inverclyde Royal Hospital |
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | 3 days ago
Interview: Richard Wilson, actor
...he sports a natty pink striped shirt, teamed with an elegant pair of black trousers. The actor and theatre director, who hails from Greenock, is also possessed of a dry sense of humour that even pain from a bad back cannot subdue. The only...
In this article: Richard Wilson, David Renwick, Leslie Crowther, Napoleon III, DVD, and Camelot
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BBC News | 5 days ago
Rangers fan admits police attack
Those who pleaded guilty were Gordon Forrest, 35, of Bearsden, Glasgow; James Bell, 42, of Cumbernauld, Glasgow; Thomas Murphy, 27, of Greenock; David McCullough, 20, of Burnage, Manchester; David Annette, 34, of Chorley, Lancashire; John...
In this article: Glasgow, Violent Disorder, East Kilbride, Cumbernauld, and Zenit St Petersburg
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Telegraph.co.uk - Obituaries | 6 days ago
Tom Hudson
...years running. In 1951 he was asked to go to England as manager of a small sales team that was the foundation of IBM UK, based in Greenock on the Clyde. From 1954 he was managing director; under his leadership, with the establishment of...
In this article: IBM, Plessey, Ferranti, International Computers & Tabulators, Marconi, System/360, National Coal Board, International Computers Ltd, and English Electric
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scotsman.com - Business | November 16, 2009
FTSE shines on gold price hike
Rivals Tesco and Morrisons fared better, adding 3.25p to 429p and 1.7p to 292.1 respectively. British Polythene Industries, the Greenock-based plastic bag and packaging company, saw its shares rise to their highest level in 19 months after...
In this article: FTSE, FTSE 250, Moneysupermarket.com, London, Tesco, Revenue, Buoyancy, Financial crisis, Platinum, and Randgold Resources
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BBC News | November 11, 2009
Shetland secures Tall Ships cash
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The Press and Journal | November 09, 2009
Troops reunited with their loved ones
...them said it was only on their return to the UK that the deaths had been thrown into sharp focus. Sergeant Robert McCready, 26, from Greenock, who was reunited with wife Karen, 23, and two-year-old son Jay, said: "This is the time for...
In this article: Black Watch, Dundee, Taliban, and Royal Regiment of Scotland
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scotsman.com - Scotland | November 04, 2009
Scotland to get new college campus by 2013
Reid Kerr College in Paisley has been the main partner, with Cardonald and Langside colleges in Glasgow and James Watt in Greenock also hoping to have a campus presence. Plans for the campus include a replacement library for Barrhead,...
In this article: Scotland
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scotsman.com - Scotland | November 02, 2009
GBP300,000 to teach inmates finer points of vandalism
...to produce artworks that reflect their feelings about themselves. But the scheme drew a withering response from Labour's Duncan McNeil, whose Greenock constituency has suffered badly from spray-painted vandalism for many years. "Graffiti...
In this article: The Scotsman, Edinburgh, and Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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The Press and Journal | October 28, 2009
Klimpl wants to delay operation to help Dundee
...but at this stage we don't know whether to do it now or hang off for a while. Morton chairman Douglas Rae hopes to name the Greenock club's new manager tomorrow. Stirling Albion manager Allan Moore is favourite to get the post vacated...
In this article: Jocky Scott, Surgery, Maros Klimpl, Stirling Albion, Motherwell, Morton, and Allan Moore
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BBC News | October 20, 2009
Windfall expected from Tall Ships
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Description from Wikipedia:
Greenock (listen) (Grianaig, ) is a town and former burgh of barony in the Inverclyde council area of western Scotland. It forms part of a contiguous urban area with Gourock to the west and Port Glasgow to the east. Greenock lies within the Central Lowlands geographic area of Scotland.
Greenock's population was recorded as being 45,467 in the 2001 census, a decrease from about 78,000 in 1966. It lies on the south bank of the Clyde at the "Tail of the Bank" where the River Clyde expands into the Firth of Clyde, and is in what was the county of Renfrewshire.
- Name:
- Greenock
- Location Country:
- Scotland
- Latitude:
- 55.94957
- Longitude:
- -4.76415
- Postcode District:
- PA15, PA16
- UK Parliament Constituency:
- Inverclyde
- Post Town:
- GREENOCK
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