August 2, 2021 – THE DUMBARTON DEMOCRAT

NEW WRITING: Reveries of a Reluctantly Reclusive Rambler

August 2, 2021 heaneymedia

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’

August 2, 2021 heaneymedia

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

WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL SALARY AND EXPENSES

SNP leader Jonathan McColl and Bailie Denis Agnew. By Bill Heaney Nearly £500,000 a year is being paid out to West Dunbartonshire Council members in

HOSPITALS INQUIRY: Girl’s chemotherapy was stopped due to water-related infection, inquiry hears

‘To find out the hospital has inflicted more pain and could have taken our child’s life is devastating,’ patient’s mother tells inquiry By Democrat reporter

IF YOU LOVE WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE THEN SAY IT WITH FLOWERS AND CUT THE GRASS

By Bill Heaney Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockleshells And pretty maids all in a row …

AWAY WITH THE BIRDS: COUNCIL WILL TAP INTO SEAGULL CENSUS

Seagulls look nice and harmless, but in truth they can be dangerous, especially when you have food in your hands. Pictures by Bill Heaney By

CULTURE: TO AUTUMN poem by JOHN KEATS

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn. Glen Fruin picture above by Bill Heaney Levengrove Park in Dumbarton picture by Robert Beacon To Autumn

HEALTH MATTERS: Tackling mental health stigma and discrimination

27 September See Me awarded continued funding … The national programme to eliminate mental health stigma and discrimination has been awarded £5 million of Scottish

HOUSING: Plans welcomed for new Argyll village featuring homes, hotel, pub and school

West coast of Argyll picture by Bill Heaney The plans for the development outside Oban are currently at the pre-application notice stage By local democracy

HOUSING: Grants for tenants in rent arrears

27 September £10 million to help people worst affected by pandemic to avoid eviction By Lucy Ashton Councils have been given £10 million to provide

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