Tree Planting Grant Scheme This year we are delighted to be launching our new Tree Planting Grant to encourage small scale tree planting in the
Day: May 30, 2019
GONE FISHING ON LOCH LOMOND
Dick Dickson and his wife, Jean, at the launch of Dick’s new book in the Vale of Leven Angling Club. Pictures by Bill Heaney Neetah
Two hundred old folk cannot afford their alarms
There is something intrinsically wrong with charging old people money to pick them up off the floor when they fall.
It’s even worse when you look upon elderly or disabled people as a soft touch from whom you can screw even more money to bolster your public service budget which is stretched because of your own ineptitude.
WHO IS PAYING TO PAVE THE WAY FOR FLAMINGO LAND?
The Scottish Government is running scared at the upsurge in support for the campaign to halt Flamingo Land’s planned move to Loch Lomondside. This was clear at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday when Labour MSP Jackie Baillie raised what she called “her constituents’ concerns about the proposal to build a holiday park at West Riverside in Balloch”.
MAMMOGRAM UNIT GIVES NEW HOPE TO VALE
The Vale of Leven Hospital is to benefit from a brand new fully digital Mammography Unit, which is being installed at a cost of £250,000. The investment has been secured to replace the current Mammography Unit which runs on an analogue system.
FLAMINGO LAND SET TO HAVE ITS WINGS CLIPPED?
Flamingo Land is our Brexit moment, says ex-SNP leader Robertson in public spat with McColl