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Day: May 12, 2021

TOM KITCHIN: “I totally feel that we’ve been left behind in the hospitality sector.”

May 12, 2021 heaneymedia

Tom Kitchin and his wife, Michaela. Picture by Bill Heaney By Lucy Ashton Tom Kitchin, the TV chef owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant, has called

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CORONAVIRUS: independent public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic will be held in spring 2022

May 12, 2021 heaneymedia

Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaving Downing Street. By Lucy Ashton The UK government is “fully committed to learning the lessons at every stage” of the

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Covid: Concern over rising cases in West of Scotland

May 12, 2021 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton Concern is growing about a rising number of Covid cases in Glasgow as the area prepares to move down to level two.

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McVitie’s: Saving the 500 jobs from factory closure would take the biscuit

May 12, 2021 heaneymedia

NOTEBOOK by BILL HEANEY “Would you risk it for a biscuit,” was a question often asked in the days before that word was taken simply

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Helping Hands: critical care nurse pens touching poem in recognition of colleagues for International Nurses Day 

May 12, 2021 heaneymedia

Pictured above: The Critical Care team  at the Institute of Neurosciences alongside Senior Charge Nurse Ruth Wilson (in navy uniform) on International Nurses Day.An NHS

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BOOKS: The Best Catholics in the World

May 12, 2021 heaneymedia

SOCIETY History on the Wing Cardinal Brady being interviewed at the Humbert International Summer School in Co Mayo by RTE religion correspondent, Joe Little. And

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News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

Recent Posts

  • Major dance festival Terminal V to be held on banks of River Clyde
  • DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK BY BILL HEANEY
  • Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland
  • What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …
  • 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

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Major dance festival Terminal V to be held on banks of River Clyde

Major dance festival Terminal V to be held on banks of River Clyde

The festival will be held on the banks of the Clyde next June Electronic music festival Terminal V will be held on the banks of

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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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