However Gourock to Dunoon, where even CalMac failed to bid, remains to be settled.

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After the war he worked as a customs and excise officer, settling in Gourock, Inverclyde.

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Ross McIntyre assaulted Christopher Roe after an argument about Lynsey Harte outside her flat in Cardwell Road, Gourock, Inverclyde, on 1 April 2012.

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Born in Gourock and raised in Aberdeen, Melville aims to adopt the same approach to football that he has used throughout his career.

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Tavish Scott MSP, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, challenged Mr Salmond over the government's handling of the contract for the ferry service between Dunoon and Gourock.

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Kevin Pass, head organiser for the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, says that his union recruited more than half the 1, 000-strong workforce at an electronics plant in Gourock, near Glasgow, within 12 weeks.

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After the war and marriage to his beloved Daphne, he worked as a customs and excise officer in Glasgow, Prestwick, and Ireland before settling in Gourock, where his two daughters, Louise and Elaine, were brought up.

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