October 20, 2018 – THE DEMOCRAT

GRANTS

October 20, 2018 heaneymedia

Local charities benefit from CORRA By Lucy Ashton Two charities based in West Dunbartonshire have received grants following support from the local MSP, Jackie Baillie,

BRIDGE GONE

October 20, 2018 heaneymedia

Train services will be replaced by buses over this weekend DUMBARTON, Helensburgh and Balloch train services are being replaced by buses this weekend because of

A&E: 32% of those attending Emergency Departments have minor ailments

Top doctors are urging people to only attend A&E if their condition is life-threatening Queen Elizabeth hospital complex and Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria. By

SOCIAL CARE: Care workers protest for £15 per hour wage outside Holyrood

By Bill Heaney Care workers, including a delegation from West Dunbartonshire, and the GMB trade union rallied outside the Scottish Parliament on Saturday to call

ENVIRONMENT: Rally held in George Square to highlight ‘waste crisis’

Day of action was held on Saturday Calls for the recruitment of 100 new road sweepers and 100 new refuse collectors. STV News is reporting

FILMS: Brian Cox on Succession’s success: ‘I’ve lost the anonymity I had for more than 50 years’

Brian Cox with his lovely wife Nicole Ansari and Scottish actor Bill Paterson at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Picture by Bill Heaney

BOOKS: A revealing look inside the fascinating but damaged life of Shane MacGowan

Richard Balls’ brilliant new biography, A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story Of Shane MacGowan, blows away some of the myths around Ireland’s greatest songwriter Review

Fire ravaged Art School building should be ‘faithfully’ restored

The fire in 2018 was the second to devastate the Mackintosh building in just four years By Lucy Ashton BBC Scotland news is reporting that

BASKET CASE COUNCIL IS HEMORRHAGING STAFF, ACCORDING TO WHISTLEBLOWERS

EXCLUSIVE by BILL HEANEY News is coming in from whistleblowers that Malcolm Bennie, the £100,000 a year person in charge of Communications at basket case

HEALTH MATTERS: Doctor is green machine

On yer bike – Dr Ewan Wallace, Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia and Chronic Pain. By Lucy Ashton A dedicated doctor is set to cycle over

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