Skip to content
THE DUMBARTON DEMOCRAT

THE DEMOCRAT

DUNBARTONSHIRE'S DIGITAL NEWSPAPER

  • Home
  • Latest News
    • West Dunbartonshire
    • Balloch
    • Dumbarton
    • Scotland Wide
    • Helensburgh
  • TRAVEL
  • SPORT
  • BOOK REVIEWS
  • SPECIAL FEATURES
  • CONTACT US

Day: October 22, 2018

KEN McNAB on SPORT

October 22, 2018 heaneymedia

Greetings. Welcome to the Monday Takeaway, my impartial look back at the sporting weekend. The credits this week include Craig Levein, Steven Gerrard, Scott Brown,

Continue reading

AUTUMN

October 22, 2018 heaneymedia

Roaming in the gloaming … Beautiful Balloch on the Bonnie Banks. Pictures by Bruce Biddulph

Continue reading

TOKYO

October 22, 2018 heaneymedia

A taste of Japan with a (small) earthquake to spice things up Pictures by MT Rainey

Continue reading

BRUCE FILM

October 22, 2018 heaneymedia

King Robert reveals what’s under his kilt … and raises a few eyebrows By Lucy Ashton Hollywood star Chris Pine kept up his Scottish accent

Continue reading

BOOK REVIEW

October 22, 2018 heaneymedia

By Alex Wood Judith McClure, head teacher at St George’s School in Edinburgh from 1994 until 2009, alone among Edinburgh’s private sector heads, was enormously

Continue reading

News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

Recent Posts

  • JOURNALISM: TENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR THE IRISH VOICE
  • Conservatives beat SNP in Girvan by-election    
  • School strikes to go ahead as union rejects demand to return to work immediately
  • DENTAL CHARGES: Dependent on overall treatment plans
  • PARLIAMENT: WILL THERE BE A COUNCIL TAX HIKE?
  • HEALTH: Celebrating 10 years of my kidney transplant 

Previously: THE DEMOCRAT

JOURNALISM: TENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR THE IRISH VOICE

JOURNALISM: TENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR THE IRISH VOICE

By PETER DIAMOND THE Irish Voice was treated to an evening reception at the Irish Consulate in Edinburgh to celebrate the newspaper’s 10th anniversary. On

Continue reading

Conservatives beat SNP in Girvan by-election    

Conservatives beat SNP in Girvan by-election     

By Lucy Ashton The Scottish Conservatives have won the Girvan and South Carrick by–election, gaining the seat from the SNP.   South Ayrshire resident Alan Lamont becomes

Continue reading

School strikes to go ahead as union rejects demand to return to work immediately

School strikes to go ahead as union rejects demand to return to work immediately

By Lucy Ashton Strikes that will close schools across Scotland are set to go ahead after UNISON unsurprisingly rejected a new pay deal which the

Continue reading

DENTAL CHARGES: Dependent on overall treatment plans

DENTAL CHARGES: Dependent on overall treatment plans

By Bill Heaney Getting a straight answer to a question in the Scottish Parliament can often be like pulling teeth. And so it was when

Continue reading

PARLIAMENT: WILL THERE BE A COUNCIL TAX HIKE?

PARLIAMENT: WILL THERE BE A COUNCIL TAX HIKE?

Deputy First Minister Shona Robison and Labour leader Anas Sarwar By Bill Heaney The consultation on the council tax multiplier is looking at how we

Continue reading

HEALTH: Celebrating 10 years of my kidney transplant 

HEALTH: Celebrating 10 years of my kidney transplant 

Lynn Smith discovered that she had kidney failure two years after giving birth to her now 17-year-old daughter, Erin. Five years later she had a

Continue reading

Cost of a bottle of whisky to soar to £18.20

Cost of a bottle of whisky to soar to £18.20

Price of drink up again as SNP roll out a 65p minimum unit price The Scottish Government wants to ‘hit responsible drinkers during a cost-of-living

Continue reading

COUNCILS LIED ABOUT MONEY DURING SCHOOL STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS

COUNCILS LIED ABOUT MONEY DURING SCHOOL STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS

They are now ‘demanding’ strike suspension as ‘best and final’ offer made Most primary and secondary schools in Scotland face closures from Tuesday, September 26,

Continue reading

October 2018
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Sep   Nov »

Facebook – Follow Us

  • Facebook

Twitter – Follow Us

  • Twitter
Powered by WordPress.com.
 

Loading Comments...