POLICE FILES

A BOMB disposal squad was despatched from Faslane to SAMS at Dunstaffnage last week after a contractor’s remote underwater camera spotted a suspected wartime bomb lying on the seabed near the marina. But divers returning to the same spot failed to locate the tubular object, which SAMS’ Dr Anuschka Miller said could have been an old gas cylinder. She said: ‘It probably was not a bomb but until you go down, you don’t know. We did some emergency planning. We have the NHS decompression chamber here and we have students. We used it as an exercise.’

POLICE have found stolen children’s garden toys at a property in North Connel. Officers are appealing for any information, and would like to reunite the toys with their owners.

SOME £500 of agricultural ‘red’ diesel was removed from a tank at a farm in Appin between November 8 and 22. Anyone with information should contact PC Simpson at Oban police station. Officers urge the public to check security on their fuel stores.

A 19-YEAR- OLD man has been charged with possession of a controlled drug after he was stopped near Glengallan Road early on Sunday morning.

A PURSE was taken from a jacket and other items from a handbag at Glencruitten Golf Club on November 23. Anyone with information should contact PC Greenlaw at Oban police station.

TWO drivers escaped with minor injuries following an incident involving two vehicles on the A85 near Saulmore Farm between Connel and Dunbeg around 12.30pm on November 24. The incident closed the road for up to an hour. One driver was reported to the procurator fiscal.