January 23, 2021 – THE DUMBARTON DEMOCRAT

EDUCATION: Wishart sets out catch up proposals in letter to Education Minister John Swinney

January 23, 2021 heaneymedia

EIS General Secretary Larry Flanagan called for “the rapid employment of supply teachers”. By Bill Heaney Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Beatrice Wishart MSP has

Alex Salmond inquiry: Police were asked ‘hypothetical questions’ on ‘specific’ cases while government policy was developed

January 23, 2021 heaneymedia

The Scottish Government asked Police Scotland about the criminal process around accusations of historical sexual harassment while it was developing the policy which resulted in

Helping Hands – Hundreds of them : A Powerful Tribute to Staff at QEUH

January 23, 2021 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton At first glance it looks like any other tribute to our NHS staff – a rainbow taking pride of place on the

COVID 19: Community COVID Vaccine Centres Confirmed

January 23, 2021 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton Three West Dunbartonshire venues have been confirmed as sites for the mass rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination. Dumbarton’s Concord Centre, Alexandria Community

FOOD: Increase in payments to help boost family incomes

02 Aug 2021 By Lucy Ashton Best Start Foods payments are increasing in West Dunbartonshire and Argyll this month marking the achievement of another commitment

JOURNALISM: The changing art of the subeditor: ‘You had to read the type upside down’

By Suzanne Warr The internet may have revolutionised the media in the 21 years since I joined the Guardian, but my role as a subeditor

POLITICS: Westminster first-past-the-post elections “outdated anomaly”, campaigners say

2nd August, 2021 By Elliot Chappell Electoral reform campaigners have described the use of first-past-the-post in UK general elections as an “outdated anomaly” as analysis

BRIAN WILSON COLUMN: LETTING EVERY SCOTTISH CHILD LEARN TO SWIM WOULD BE REAL OLYMPIC GOLD

By BRIAN WILSON If I ruled the Olympics for a day, I would use it to ban anthems and medal tables, both of which seem

NEW WRITING: REVERIES OF A RELUTANT RAMBLER II

Continued from yesterday … Interesting Interiors #4 A missed opportunity for me. The Szechenyi Thermal Baths in Buda Pest. March 2019 (barely two years ago

THE BIG DOPE: A fog of madness, a stinky green cloud, is now descending on America

By Madeleine Kearns Young people are now more likely to consume marijuana than to smoke tobacco. The social acceptance of tobacco is falling, just as

NEW WRITING: Reveries of a Reluctantly Reclusive Rambler

Reveries of a Reluctantly Reclusive Rambler After our daughter’s 40th Birthday Party I had a Slow Sunday. Wandered in the sun out by the banks

CHILDREN: Humza Yousaf reports nursery over ‘racial discrimination’

Health Secretary says an application for his two-year-old daughter was refused twice by a nursery By Democrat reporter Humza Yousaf has said he is seeking

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