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Day: December 20, 2018

SCOTFAIL

December 20, 2018 heaneymedia

Rip-off train services leave Scotrail passengers feeling blue Scotrail need to apologise to the customers they have let down. Nicola Sturgeon has branded the number

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MARY’S MEALS

December 20, 2018 heaneymedia

All adverts for good causes and community related events go FREE in The Democrat.

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CAMPAIGN VICTORY

December 20, 2018 heaneymedia

Christmas tears of joy as Baillie celebrates cystic fibrosis campaign win Vale of Leven Hospital and Jackie Baillie MSP. By Bill Heaney Jackie Baillie was

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HATS OFF TO CENTENARIAN

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Jennifer Murray and Papa Robert Sawers at Faslane with Cdr John Humphreys. By Gavin Carr A Second World War naval veteran from Bearsden visited the

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BUDGET MEETING SHAMBLES

December 20, 2018 heaneymedia

This Notebook column comes with a mental health warning to stay away from Council meetings A protest against the SNP administration’s Budget proposals took place

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FLAMINGOLAND: Save Loch Lomond campaign rebooted as new application lodged

FLAMINGOLAND:  Save Loch Lomond campaign rebooted as new application lodged

By Lucy Ashton A Green campaign which saw a record 60,000 objections lodged against a Flamingoland development at Loch Lomond has been rebooted after the

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POLICE MESSAGE: Suspicious fire in Dumbarton

POLICE MESSAGE: Suspicious fire in Dumbarton

Police Scotland is appealing for information following a suspicious fire in Dumbarton. Around 11.25pm on Tuesday, 31 May, 2022, police received a report of a

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CRIME: MURDER HUNT MAY BE CALLED OFF AFTER PRIME SUSPECT FOUND DEAD

CRIME: MURDER HUNT MAY BE CALLED OFF AFTER PRIME SUSPECT FOUND DEAD

By Bill Heaney Pedophile Norman Duncan died suddenly at his home in Vale of Leven last week leading to unconfirmed speculation that he murdered and

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TRIBUTE TO US AMBASSADOR FRANK MEEHAN, WHO HAS DIED AGED 98 AT HIS HOME IN HELENSBURGH

TRIBUTE TO US AMBASSADOR FRANK MEEHAN, WHO HAS DIED AGED 98 AT HIS HOME IN HELENSBURGH

Obituary FRANCIS J MEEHAN, US AMBASSADOR Born: February 14, 1924, East Orange, New Jersey, USA of Scottish parents from Clydebank Died: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute,

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ScotRail: SNP government optimistic over new 4.2% pay offer

ScotRail: SNP government optimistic over new 4.2% pay offer

By Bill Heaney Going to the big match at Hampden on Wednesday night? You might just be able to get there by rail but, so

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ABUSE: Five domestic abusers sentenced to 61 years in prison

ABUSE: Five domestic abusers sentenced to 61 years in prison

By Bill Heaney Updated May 31, 2022 “It’s just a domestic,” I would hear them say when I listened into the police radio of an

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COUNCIL: Workers across every council in Scotland on verge of strike action

COUNCIL: Workers across every council in Scotland on verge of strike action

Unions have said that unless negotiations reopen with a ‘vastly improved offer’ then industrial action looks ‘inevitable’   The unions in West Dunbartonshire and Argyll

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