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Day: November 18, 2020

COVID 19: World COPD day marked during toughest year ever

November 18, 2020 heaneymedia

COPD patients has a huge impact on affected patients. By Democrat reporter Today is World COPD Day (18 November) and in the year of the

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COVID 19: Businessman was paid £21m of taxpayer cash for securing NHS PPE

November 18, 2020 heaneymedia

Read this and weep. This is the kind of country we are living in, in the 21st century. While care home and home care workers

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COVID 19: New clinical trial launched NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Uni

November 18, 2020 heaneymedia

By Democrat reporter A potential treatment for COVID-19, which has shown early promise in China and Japan, will be trialled in NHSGGC. Glasgow is the

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DAVID KELSO: SAD LOSS TO SCOTTISH JOURNALISM

November 18, 2020 heaneymedia

A renowned Dumbarton-based journalist, best known for his rugby and other sports reporting, has died after a battle with cancer, aged just 63. David Kelso,

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ENVIRONMENT: Alarm over plan to break up nuclear submarines in Firth of Clyde

November 18, 2020 heaneymedia

By Rob Edwards in The Ferret The company that runs the port at Hunterston in the Firth of Clyde wants to use it to break

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  • POLITICS: LABOUR LEADER SARWAR SAYS STURGEON SHOULD QUIT IF SHE BROKE CODE
  • SALMOND INQUIRY: Former FM tells Baillie ‘there absolutely should be [a further] police investigation of the matter’
  • SALMOND INQUIRY: The Government acted illegally, but, somehow, nobody is to blame.
  • FATAL: Re-appeal for information fatal road accident in Oban
  • HERITAGE: Kilmaronock Old Kirk will be made available for community use
  • JUSTICE: John Craxton admitted facilitating Edwin McLaren’s fraud in longest ever criminal trial.

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POLITICS: LABOUR LEADER SARWAR SAYS STURGEON SHOULD QUIT IF SHE BROKE CODE

POLITICS: LABOUR LEADER SARWAR SAYS STURGEON SHOULD QUIT IF SHE BROKE CODE

Sturgeon should resign if she broke ministerial code, says Labour leader Sarwar By Democrat reporter First Minister Nicola Sturgeon  is the focus of an investigation

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SALMOND INQUIRY: Former FM tells Baillie ‘there absolutely should be [a further] police investigation of the matter’

SALMOND INQUIRY: Former FM tells Baillie ‘there absolutely should be [a further] police investigation of the matter’

Former First Minister Alex Salmond told Dumbarton MSP Jackie Baillie that there should be a further police investigation into the leak of documents. By Bill

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SALMOND INQUIRY: The Government acted illegally, but, somehow, nobody is to blame.

SALMOND INQUIRY: The Government acted illegally, but, somehow, nobody is to blame.

By Alex Salmond, former First Minister of Scotland This inquiry is not about me. I have already established the illegality of the actions of the

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FATAL: Re-appeal for information fatal road accident in Oban

FATAL: Re-appeal for information fatal road accident in Oban

Margaret Smith was knocked down while walking her dog on the seafront in Oban. By Democrat reporter Police officers are continuing Inquiries into a fatal

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HERITAGE: Kilmaronock Old Kirk will be made available for community use

HERITAGE: Kilmaronock Old Kirk will be made available for community use

By Democrat reporter A historic Loch Lomondside kirk, where luminaries such as Brigadier Alistair Pearson and Lord Fraser of Allander are interred in the ancient

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JUSTICE: John Craxton admitted facilitating Edwin McLaren’s fraud in longest ever criminal trial.

JUSTICE: John Craxton admitted facilitating Edwin McLaren’s fraud in longest ever criminal trial.

Lawyer who helped fraudster run £1.6m scheme struck off list Police Scotland picture of Edwin McLaren who was jailed for 11 years in 2017 for

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INDUSTRIAL ACTION:  Unite the union state that workers are set to take part in rolling industrial action

INDUSTRIAL ACTION:  Unite the union state that workers are set to take part in rolling industrial action

Staff set to strike at nuclear bases over pay dispute at Faslane and Coulport By Democrat reporter Major news organisations were reporting over the weekend

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: We tend to imagine eternal life in terms of what we know,

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: We tend to imagine eternal life in terms of what we know,

By Canon Gerry Conroy I am not sure why but this second lockdown we are enduring seems longer than the first even though it isn’t.

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