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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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Rescuers find dying hill walker on Ben More

Rescuers find dying hill walker on Ben More

A coastguard helicopter from Prestwick was involved the operation. Rescuers were diverted from a training exercise to locate a dying walker. Members of Killin Mountain

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SNP’s ‘flagship’ Cornton Vale replacement £millions over budget and years behind schedule

SNP’s ‘flagship’ Cornton Vale replacement £millions over budget and years behind schedule

By Bill Heaney The SNP’s flagship replacement of Cornton Vale women’s prison is already more than two years behind schedule and millions over budget, the

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STRIKE ACTION: Firefighters and control room staff vote to strike over pay

STRIKE ACTION: Firefighters and control room staff vote to strike over pay

Members of the Fire Brigades Union backed walkouts by 88 per cent Firefighters backed strikes by 88% on a huge turnout of 73% after rejecting

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Man attacks 13-year-old boy near Boulevard golf centre

Man attacks 13-year-old boy near Boulevard golf centre

The attack happened near the World of Golf centre on Great Western Road. A 13-year-old boy has been injured after an apparently unprovoked attack by

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CINCH LEAGUE 2: DUMBARTON 1 BONNYRIGG ROSE 0

CINCH LEAGUE 2: DUMBARTON 1 BONNYRIGG ROSE 0

PICTURES by JON LEINO SONS HOLD ON TO NUMBER ONE SPOT Gregg Wylde goal seals all three points By Glen Douglas Bonnyrigg Rose played well

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BOOKS AND TRAVEL: Hemingway once held court here, in all his degenerate glory

BOOKS AND TRAVEL: Hemingway once held court here, in all his degenerate glory

PETER MURTAGH came to Cabo Blanco, where he stopped on his journey up the Americas, as this Peruvian village was where much of The Old

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SNP’s hated bottle return scheme could cripple 92 per cent of drink producers

SNP’s hated bottle return scheme could cripple 92 per cent of drink producers

Businesses are at risk of going bust or taking their business elsewhere unless Green Minister Lorna Slater changes the policy. Smaller brands could disappear from

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ENVIRONMENT: SNP eco credentials left shattered as recycling rates plummet

ENVIRONMENT:  SNP eco credentials left shattered as recycling rates plummet

Scottish Labour attacked the SNP/Scottish Greens government for their environmental failures after it was revealed that recycling rates had been dropping over the last five

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