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Day: November 10, 2018

REMEMBER THEM

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Remembering those who were killed in wars and conflict. By Bill Heaney The two minutes’ silence at 11 o’clock on Remembrance Day morning will rightly

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Letter from Ypres

November 10, 2018 heaneymedia

Light of Dumbarton soldier’s life snuffed out like candle in the wind … A wreath is laid on Bobbie Humble’s grave in Belgium by his

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BALLOCH’S BREXIT

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Meeting erupts into shouting match and protester is shown the door Clashed at meeting – Sid Perrie (right) and Murdoch Cameron. By Bill Heaney Flamingoland

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Remembrance Day Services

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In the morning and at the going down of the sun, we will remember them …. A wreath being laid at the cenotaph in Dumbarton’s

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Willy McBride

November 10, 2018 heaneymedia

Veterans remember in Dumbarton and Alexandria on Remembrance Sundays past and photographs of Dumbarton and Helensburgh men who served in the Dardanelles.  The final two

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Remembrance

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Why I wear a poppy By Alex Wood As a young man I wore my CND badge, rather than a poppy, on Armistice Day. For

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  • BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

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REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

by Bill Heaney UK Reform leader Malcolm Offord today criticised increases to the minimum wage and improvements to workers’ rights across the UK. Scottish Labour

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ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN

ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN
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Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc Dumbarton. One week to go until our big closing #litterpick of this year’s #BigClydeCleanUp at Havoc. Don’t be shy, come

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ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP Great to have the support of Brendan O’Hara MP. Together, we’re standing up for our communities, protecting

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Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond

Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond

Boat began to sink between Inchmurrin Island and the Boturrich shoreline on Sunday A helicopter helped rescue three people who were trapped on a boat

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BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

Biography Having a Reputation A new biography of James Bryce, one-time Chief Secretary of Ireland and supporter of Irish Home Rule, reveals the astonishingly varied

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LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

by Lucy Ashton Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today set out how his party will legislate to make schools smartphone-free environments, as part

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Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

by Bill Heaney Russell Findlay has today outlined his party’s plans to tackle Scotland’s pothole epidemic, which he says is “a monument to two decades

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