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Day: December 9, 2021

BUDGET: SNP/green PARTIES miserable 48 PENCE RISE WILL NOT CURE STAFF SHORTAGES IN SOCIAL CARE

December 9, 2021 heaneymedia

Finance Secretary Kate Forbes and Green Party leader Patrick Harvie. By Harry Bell in Edinburgh Ending Scotland’s contribution to climate change, tackling inequalities and investing

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HEALTH AND FITNESS: Leisure centres see drop in visitors

December 9, 2021 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton The decision by West Dunbartonshire Council to move leisure services under the wing of an “arm’s length” company has backfired. Public use

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RELIGION: Pope says sex outside marriage is ‘not the most serious sin’

December 9, 2021 heaneymedia

9 December 2021 Pope says sex outside marriage is ‘not the most serious sin,’ but  pride and hatred were “the most serious” of sins. Laura

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SOS for Tourism: Appeal for national funding support for ROTHESAY PAVILION

December 9, 2021 heaneymedia

09 December 2021 By Aileen MacLennan Argyll and Bute Council will seek national funding support to meet pandemic and EU exit costs of completing Rothesay

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Anger over cut to multimillion fund to help our worst off children

December 9, 2021 heaneymedia

LABOUR CONDEMNS SNP CUT TO CASH FOR KIDS By Lucy Ashton West Dunbartonshire, which was recently identified as one of the councils in the top

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PARTRY TIME: PM accused of “rank hypocrisy” as over 70,000 people have been fined for lockdown parties

December 9, 2021 heaneymedia

Thursday, 9 December 2021 The Liberal Democrats have slammed Boris Johnson’s “rank hypocrisy” on the Number 10 Christmas party knees up while people were dying

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News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

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  • Boy, 16, and 80-year-old man die in light aircraft crash at Drymen, near Loch Lomond
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  • Edinburgh Book Festival E-news: 16 October 2026 edition
  • Celtic Connections reveals 2027 festival programme
  • October progress on the roadworks at The Milton, near Dumbarton, which look nearly complete now

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Pope Leo X1V discharged from hospital days after lung cancer surgery

Pope Leo X1V discharged from hospital days after lung cancer surgery

By Sarah Rainsford Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent. Reporting from Rome 17 October 2026, 13:37 BST Updated 1 hour ago Pope Leo XIV has been discharged

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Boy, 16, and 80-year-old man die in light aircraft crash at Drymen, near Loch Lomond

Boy, 16, and 80-year-old man die in light aircraft crash at Drymen, near Loch Lomond

The light aircraft crashed a few miles north east of Drymen near Stirling by Claire Diamond BBC Scotland News 17 October 2026 A 16-year-old boy

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YER HAVING A LAUGH. NO WONDER OUR COUNCIL TAX IS EXTORIONATE

YER HAVING A LAUGH. NO WONDER OUR COUNCIL TAX IS EXTORIONATE

Nice to see someone has kept their sense of humour in the trying circumstances in which the people at the end of the phone are

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Edinburgh Book Festival E-news: 16 October 2026 edition

Edinburgh Book Festival E-news: 16 October 2026 edition

October in Edinburgh: the leaves are changing colour, the rain is making reading indoors feel like an especially good idea, and – at the Book

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Celtic Connections reveals 2027 festival programme

Celtic Connections reveals 2027 festival programme

Musicians from over 20 countries will perform at this year’s festival by Liam O’Heanai A tribute to the Beatles, a takeover of the Kelvingrove Art

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October progress on the roadworks at The Milton, near Dumbarton, which look nearly complete now

October progress on the roadworks at The Milton, near Dumbarton, which look nearly complete now

Pix by Pedro

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HELENSBURGH SAYS NO! Controversial supermarket plan for waterfront rejected

HELENSBURGH SAYS NO! Controversial supermarket plan for waterfront rejected

Locals said the new supermarket would affect the town’s character and was not needed 15 October 2026 by Bill Heaney A controversial plan to site

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INVESTIGATION: WHY PLANNING APPLICATION FOR TRACK TO HONEYPOT FARM AT GARTOCHARN HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

INVESTIGATION: WHY PLANNING APPLICATION FOR TRACK TO HONEYPOT FARM AT GARTOCHARN HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

parkswatchscotland by Nick Kempe An application for planning permission to the Loch Lomond Park Authority for a new access track to Honeypot Farm and Honeywagon

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