My Kind of Town

Ian Hamilton and his guide dog Major are off to Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, the coastal town and ferry port known as the gateway to wealthy Arran. It is very much the kind of place people pass through rather than a destination in itself.

Ian Hamilton and guide dog Major are off to Annan in Dumfries and Galloway. With its important industrial history, including boat building, fishing and even nuclear power, how is Annan adapting to the modern world?

Ian Hamilton and guide dog, Major, head to Cumnock in East Ayrshire. Once a thriving mining town, Cumnock now has an ambition to become Scotland's first green town by running its own hi-tech renewable energy system.

Ian and Major head to Shotts in North Lanarkshire, a town that's feeling a bit unloved and down on its luck. Since the closing of its iron foundry, there has been very little solid employment. However, Ian and Major find plenty of places to go and people to chat to, visiting the prison, an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and even doing some street dancing.

Ian and Major head to Angus and the town of Arbroath, a fine red sandstone town which nestles around its historic abbey. No longer with a fishing industry, the town relies on leisure boats visiting the beautiful little harbour.

Ian and Major leave dry land and cross the Minch to Stornoway, capital of the Western Isles. With plans for a big new harbour to attract cruise ships and more business investment, Stornoway is looking to the future.