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Day: August 17, 2019

EMERGENCY FOOD AID

August 17, 2019 heaneymedia

EMERGENCY FOOD AID (Foodbank)  Can you help? Our Emergency Food Aid project requires donations as a result of extremely high demand. The summer has seen

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WHEN ONION JOHNNIES CAME ROUND THE DOORS

August 17, 2019 heaneymedia

An ‘Onion Johnny’ wheeling his bicycle  through crowded city streets. By Lost Glasgow Prompted by a question in the Lost Glasgow Group, I went off

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Recent Posts

  • ELECTION: LABOUR DISMISS SNP AS THE CLING-ON PARTY
  • Respect lambing season on Old Kilpatrick hills
  • Royal Navy captain steps back from duties over link to MP whose husband faces China spy claims
  • Renewal in the life of the Church in Scotland
  • ‘I wouldn’t change a second of it’: A tearful final message from Carol Kirkwood
  • Easter weekend public holiday reminder

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ELECTION: LABOUR DISMISS SNP AS THE CLING-ON PARTY

ELECTION: LABOUR DISMISS SNP AS THE CLING-ON PARTY

Reform UK leader Lord Offord and Labour deputy leader Dame Jackie Baillie. by Bill Heaney Reform can only help the SNP cling on for another

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Respect lambing season on Old Kilpatrick hills

Respect lambing season on Old Kilpatrick hills

It’s that time of year again for anyone who walks/runs/cycles in the Kilpatrick hills. We are fully into lambing season, so please obey the signs

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Royal Navy captain steps back from duties over link to MP whose husband faces China spy claims

Royal Navy captain steps back from duties over link to MP whose husband faces China spy claims

Joani Reid MP reportedly swapped flirtatious messages with a senior officer in charge of a nuclear-armed submarine based at Faslane by Democrat editor Bill Heaney

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Renewal in the life of the Church in Scotland

Renewal in the life of the Church in Scotland

Bishops’ Conference of Scotland “Trust in God still…” Join us this June for a Festival of Synodality — a day of encounter, listening, and renewal

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‘I wouldn’t change a second of it’: A tearful final message from Carol Kirkwood

‘I wouldn’t change a second of it’: A tearful final message from Carol Kirkwood

BBC Breakfast had just come to an end, but before the programme wrapped, we heard some final comments from Carol Kirkwood. “This is a forecast

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Easter weekend public holiday reminder

Easter weekend public holiday reminder

West Dunbartonshire and Argyll residents are reminded that GP practices in the local health board area and many pharmacies will be closed over the Easter

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Developers appeal rejection of Flamingo Land resort at Loch Lomond …

Developers appeal rejection of Flamingo Land resort at Loch Lomond …

Flamingo Land has been seeking to build a holiday resort for several years. by Bill Heaney Lomond Banks, the developers seeking to build a £40m

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SNP candidate ditched over handling of Linden complaints – and Labour man goes too

SNP candidate ditched over handling of Linden complaints – and Labour man goes too

ABOVE: Tracy Carragher is accused of downplaying allegations about her former colleague byLynsey Bews, Scotland political correspondent, Angus Cochrane, Senior political journalist, and David Wallace Lockhart, Scotland political correspondent BBC Scotland

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