{"id":10304,"date":"2025-07-20T10:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10304\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:49:19","slug":"west-coast-today-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10304\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Today &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NO_A22ScottishSeriesTarbert01_24_lone_piper_John_Hunt_PureWe1_Main.jpg\" alt=\"NO A22ScottishSeriesTarbert01 24 lone piper John Hunt PureWestMedia\" title=\"NO A22ScottishSeriesTarbert01 24 lone piper John Hunt PureWestMedia\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lone piper John Hunt. Photo: PureWestMedia.<\/p>\n<p>A Tarbert man who has undergone months of \u2018space age\u2019 cancer treatment serenaded his medical team last week with a bagpipe tune he wrote specially for them.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article you will need to ..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> for full access to West Coast Today or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/registration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register<\/a> for 1 free article per week<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subscribing gives you access all areas of the website, unlimited articles and access to the digital editions of The Oban Times, Arran Banner, Campbeltown Courier, Argyllshire Advertiser and Lochaber Times including 18 years of archive editions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You will also be helping to support local independent journalism and local jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"aos-WYSEdit-button aos-WYSEdit-linktrack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <a class=\"aos-WYSEdit-button aos-WYSEdit-linktrack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/registration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Already a subscriber or registered user?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a class=\"aos-WYSEdit-button aos-WYSEdit-linktrack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Login<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lone piper John Hunt. Photo: PureWestMedia. A Tarbert man who has undergone months of \u2018space age\u2019 cancer treatment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-10304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}