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Day: August 23, 2020

FUNERAL TAKES PLACE OF DROWNED DANCER AMY

August 23, 2020 heaneymedia

As they prepared to pay their last respects Ava’s funeral service in Clydebank Crematorium, her heart broken relatives ­questioned why some people’s first reaction was to start filming the incident which happened in the water beneath Balloch Bridge.

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Speculation growing about potential rail price increase

August 23, 2020 heaneymedia

Rail fares usually increase every January but the hike is linked to the previous July’s Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation.

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Alex Salmond is ‘poised to launch legal action’ against the BBC over documentary

August 23, 2020 heaneymedia

He is “consulting his lawyers” after being left furious by the programme hosted by Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, it has been reported.

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GLOVES ARE OFF ALREADY FOR THE HOLYROOD ELECTION NEXT MAY

August 23, 2020 heaneymedia

“When the SNP Government is presiding over such a mess everyone in Scottish Labour must be united in tackling those failures and supporting the fight for a fairer economy, workers’ rights and public ownership of our public services.

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The trial of Alex Salmond shows the BBC is institutionally Unionist, claims Alan Taylor

August 23, 2020 heaneymedia

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon in happier times. By Alan Taylor in The National Midway through viewing the BBC Two documentary The Trial of Alex Salmond,  I

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Roseanna Cunningham to stand down as MSP

August 23, 2020 heaneymedia

The SNP minister, who once worked as a solicitor with Dumbarton District Council,  said she had taken the decision after “some hard thinking” but would continue “to fight for independence”.

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  • DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK BY BILL HEANEY
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  • STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met
  • Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children
  • LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats

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DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK BY BILL HEANEY

DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK BY BILL HEANEY

by BILL HEANEY Whose idea was it to allow the Orange Order to parade down Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Northern Ireland, at the weekend? And

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Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland

Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland

by LUCY ASHTON A new Scotland-wide campaign has launched a warning that adult criminals are grooming and exploiting children to commit crime, enabling them to

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What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …

What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …

It may look like Garvaghy Road residents and Sinn Féin are in lock-step. The reality is more complex Mark Hennessy in The Irish Times Tuesday,

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STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met

STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met

Just how bad are the NHS statistics for Public Health in Scotland? Dumbarton’s MSP laid them out for all the world to see following the

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Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children

Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children

by LUCY ASHTON Former snooker world champion Graeme Dott has been jailed for seven years for sexually abusing children. The 49-year-old subjected a girl and

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LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats

LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats

by LUCY ASHTON Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP said today that his party will continue to fight to fix the NHS after

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LibDems comment on “damning” Promise report and insists government publish drug deaths stats for care-experienced people

LibDems comment on “damning” Promise report and insists government publish drug deaths stats for care-experienced people

LibDem MSP Duncan Dunlop, who has experience of being in care, Maree Todd, Minister for Children and Labour spokesperson Katherine Sangster by BILL HEANEY Scottish

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Scottish Conservatives to warn of Swinney “tax bombshell” on the way

Scottish Conservatives to warn of Swinney “tax bombshell” on the way

by BILL HEANEY The Scottish Conservatives will lead a debate tomorrow (Wednesday) in Holyrood to warn of another SNP “tax bombshell” that could hit middle-income

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