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: March 26, 2019

HIDDEN TREASURE ON THE RAILWAY

March 26, 2019 heaneymedia

PICTURE SPECIAL by JIM CROSTHWAITE By Bill Heaney It’s a treasure not many people living locally have heard much about and have seen even less.

Continue reading

MARIE CURIE NURSES

March 26, 2019 heaneymedia

All adverts for good causes, community events and meetings go FREE in The Democrat. Send yours now to heaneymedia@btinternet.com

Continue reading

BIG BREKKIE DEFINITELY NOT BREXIT

March 26, 2019 heaneymedia

All adverts for community related events and meetings and good causes go FREE in The Democrat. If you want to publicise yours then send it

Continue reading

TOP AWARD FOR NICK SCULLION’S TEAM

March 26, 2019 heaneymedia

The Scullion Law team celebrate their success in the Scottish Legal Awards with BBC Scotland newsreader Catriona Shearer,  right. By Bill Heaney The best businesses,

Continue reading

SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN

March 26, 2019 heaneymedia

Council and HSCP back campaign against child sexual abuse Stop it Now principals – Hendren, Mason and Hinds. By Moira Rodger West Dunbartonshire Council and

Continue reading

CHILD POVERTY

March 26, 2019 heaneymedia

Stark warning on child poverty By Lizzie Healey Dumbarton and Lomond constituency MSP, Jackie Baillie, has called on the UK and Scottish Governments to combat

Continue reading

News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

Recent Posts

  • Holocaust Memorial Day in West Dunbartonshire
  • HEALTH: Doctor recognised with lifetime achievement award 
  • Jailing of trans rapist Isla Bryson is ‘shambles’, says prison chief
  • PETRIE HEADS ITALIAN UNIVERSITY LECTURERS TAKING COURT ACTION ON PAY
  • TERRORISM: Far right extremism most common terror-linked ideology in Scotland
  • Scottish Government’s new land register to cause ‘significant difficulty’ say Churches

Previously: THE DEMOCRAT

Holocaust Memorial Day in West Dunbartonshire

Holocaust Memorial Day in West Dunbartonshire

Published 27 January 2023 Provost Douglas McAllister today led councillors, Dumbarton MSP Jackie Baillie, official and West Dunbartonshire residents in sombre remembrance at a flag-raising

Continue reading

HEALTH: Doctor recognised with lifetime achievement award 

HEALTH: Doctor recognised with lifetime achievement award 

By Democrat reporter A doctor from the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow has been recognised with a prestigious award for his work in developing

Continue reading

Jailing of trans rapist Isla Bryson is ‘shambles’, says prison chief

Jailing of trans rapist Isla Bryson is ‘shambles’, says prison chief

Isla Bryson was convicted of the rapes of two women which were said to have been carried out before she changed gender. By Lucy Ashton

Continue reading

PETRIE HEADS ITALIAN UNIVERSITY LECTURERS TAKING COURT ACTION ON PAY

PETRIE HEADS ITALIAN UNIVERSITY LECTURERS TAKING COURT ACTION ON PAY

By Lucy Ashton The European Commission is threatening to take Italy before the Court of Justice of the European Union in two months should Italy

Continue reading

TERRORISM: Far right extremism most common terror-linked ideology in Scotland

TERRORISM: Far right extremism most common terror-linked ideology in Scotland

Police Scotland – Semper Vigilo – always watchful for first signs of terrorism. Author: Jamie Mann in The Ferret Far right extremism was the most

Continue reading

Scottish Government’s new land register to cause ‘significant difficulty’ say Churches

Scottish Government’s new land register to cause ‘significant difficulty’ say Churches

By Bill Heaney A new Scottish Government register of who has a control over land has been criticised by Church leaders for the way it

Continue reading

SNP must order Police Scotland to record all rapists as men, say Tory MSPs

SNP must order Police Scotland to record all rapists as men, say Tory MSPs

Friday 27 January 2023 By Lucy Ashton SNP ministers have been urged today to order Police Scotland to record anyone charged or convicted of rape

Continue reading

RELIGION: ‘HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A CRIME … BUT IT IS A SIN’

RELIGION: ‘HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A CRIME … BUT IT IS A SIN’

By Brendan Walsh, editor of The Tablet Many thought playing a major football tournament in Qatar, where homosexuality is outlawed, was wrong; it was pointed

Continue reading

March 2019
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Feb   Apr »
Powered by WordPress.com.
 

Loading Comments...