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Day: October 24, 2021

A&E: 32% of those attending Emergency Departments have minor ailments

October 24, 2021 heaneymedia

Top doctors are urging people to only attend A&E if their condition is life-threatening Queen Elizabeth hospital complex and Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria. By

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SOCIAL CARE: Care workers protest for £15 per hour wage outside Holyrood

October 24, 2021 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney Care workers, including a delegation from West Dunbartonshire, and the GMB trade union rallied outside the Scottish Parliament on Saturday to call

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ENVIRONMENT: Rally held in George Square to highlight ‘waste crisis’

October 24, 2021 heaneymedia

Day of action was held on Saturday Calls for the recruitment of 100 new road sweepers and 100 new refuse collectors. STV News is reporting

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FILMS: Brian Cox on Succession’s success: ‘I’ve lost the anonymity I had for more than 50 years’

October 24, 2021 heaneymedia

      Brian Cox with his lovely wife Nicole Ansari and Scottish actor Bill Paterson at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Picture by Bill Heaney

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BOOKS: A revealing look inside the fascinating but damaged life of Shane MacGowan 

October 24, 2021 heaneymedia

Richard Balls’ brilliant new biography, A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story Of Shane MacGowan, blows away some of the myths around Ireland’s greatest songwriter Review

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  • Police Scotland’s Retail Crime Taskforce to take part in the national Safer Business Action Week
  • POETRY: ‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice
  • FASLANE NAVAL BASE COMMANDER JOINS THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO REMEMBER THE FALLEN

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CANDLELIGHT CONCERT: Candlelight Christmas Eve concert in Luss Parish Church, Loch Lomond

CANDLELIGHT CONCERT: Candlelight Christmas Eve concert in Luss Parish Church, Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond Arms A candlelight c 7 pm – 9 pm. The Tessera Quartet plays Christmas classics and music from The Holiday and Love Actually.

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LABOUR PARTY: Guarantee £350 energy bill support for the poorest Scots

LABOUR PARTY: Guarantee £350 energy bill support for the poorest Scots

by BILL HEANEY Hundreds of thousands of the poorest Scots would get extra support for energy bills this winter under plans published today by Scottish

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First Minister asked to explain Sikh festival post during Remembrance silence

First Minister asked to explain Sikh festival post during Remembrance silence

Harriet Cross, Conservative MP, Poppies for Remembrance Day and First Minister John Swinney. by LUCY ASHTON Shadow Scotland Secretary Harriet Cross has written to John

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Police Scotland’s Retail Crime Taskforce to take part in the national Safer Business Action Week

Police Scotland’s Retail Crime Taskforce to take part in the national Safer Business Action Week

by LUCY ASHTON Police Scotland’s Retail Crime Taskforce and a range of key partners are taking part in the national Safer Business Action Week to

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POETRY: ‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice

POETRY: ‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice

View in your browser ‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss MacNeice’s 1938 political poem In Autumn

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FASLANE NAVAL BASE COMMANDER JOINS THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO REMEMBER THE FALLEN

FASLANE NAVAL BASE COMMANDER JOINS THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO REMEMBER THE FALLEN

Monday, 9 November 2026 The Helensburgh community came together on Sunday 8 November to honour the nation’s fallen service personnel during the town’s annual Service

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RUSSELL BRAND: ‘Predator with no remorse’ jailed for 10 years for rape and sexual assaults

RUSSELL BRAND: ‘Predator with no remorse’ jailed for 10 years for rape and sexual assaults

by Amy-Clare Martin, Tom Barnes and Joe Middleton in THE INDEPENDENT  09 November 2026  Russell Brand has been jailed for more than 10 years after being convicted

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Teenager taken to hospital with eye injury as West Dunbartonshire gets off with relatively quiet Bonfire Night

Teenager taken to hospital with eye injury as West Dunbartonshire gets off with relatively quiet Bonfire Night

The burnt out police van which was set fire to on Bonfire Night by youths. 6 November 2026 by BILL HEANEY Deploying 1,700 police officers

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