Skip to content
THE DUMBARTON DEMOCRAT

THE DEMOCRAT

DUNBARTONSHIRE'S DIGITAL NEWSPAPER

  • Home
  • Latest News
    • West Dunbartonshire
    • Balloch
    • Dumbarton
    • Scotland Wide
    • Helensburgh
  • TRAVEL
  • SPORT
  • BOOK REVIEWS
  • SPECIAL FEATURES
  • CONTACT US

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

Recent Posts

  • Celtic and Rangers to appeal closed doors sanctions
  • No action taken against Iranian man who tried to enter Faslane nuclear base
  • Councils underspend their alcohol and drug recovery services budget, Dumbarton MSP tells parliament
  • Vocations shortage will mean major changes are needed in local Catholic Church
  • Workers could strike over ‘devastating’ plans to close day care centres
  • Glasgow City Council to fire and rehire over 23,000 employees

Previously: THE DEMOCRAT

Celtic and Rangers to appeal closed doors sanctions

Celtic and Rangers to appeal closed doors sanctions

There were no Rangers fans at Sunday’s Scottish Premiership game at Celtic Park by LUCY ASHTON Celtic and Rangers have appealed against the Scottish FA

Continue reading

No action taken against Iranian man who tried to enter Faslane nuclear base

No action taken against Iranian man who tried to enter Faslane nuclear base

The 34-year-old had been arrested at HM Naval Base Clyde near Helensburgh, in March. by LUCY ASHTON No action is to be taken against an

Continue reading

Councils underspend their alcohol and drug recovery services budget, Dumbarton MSP tells parliament

Councils underspend their alcohol and drug recovery services budget, Dumbarton MSP tells parliament

by BILL HEANEY Dumbarton’s Reform Party MSP David Smith has asked the Scottish Government, “in light of its commitment to a 16 per cent increase

Continue reading

Vocations shortage will mean major changes are needed in local Catholic Church

Vocations shortage will mean major changes are needed in local Catholic Church

by BILL HEANEY The dramatic scale of the vocations crisis which faces the Catholic Church in the coming years has been revealed in a new

Continue reading

Workers could strike over ‘devastating’ plans to close day care centres

Workers could strike over ‘devastating’ plans to close day care centres

Health and social care chiefs in Glasgow are aiming to save £20m by April 2027 due to ‘increasingly challenging’ funding pressures. Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy

Continue reading

Glasgow City Council to fire and rehire over 23,000 employees

Glasgow City Council to fire and rehire over 23,000 employees

Scotland Business Edinburgh, Fife & East Glasgow & West Highlands & Islands NE, Orkney & Shetland South Tayside & Central Alba   Glasgow City Council

Continue reading

ART EXHIBITION: An extraordinary group of inspirational women.

ART EXHIBITION: An extraordinary group of inspirational women.

St Margaret of Scotland Hospice We were honoured to attend a special Civic Reception hosted by the Right Hon. Lord Provost of Glasgow, alongside renowned

Continue reading

The Wee Coaching Company in Helensburgh: Dyslexia Awareness Week.

The Wee Coaching Company in Helensburgh: Dyslexia Awareness Week.

The Wee Coaching Company OK, the tea is most definitely spilling now… Over the last week, we have been able to share quite a few

Continue reading

December 2021
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Nov   Jan »

Facebook – Follow Us

  • Facebook

Twitter – Follow Us

  • X
Powered by WordPress.com.
Loading Comments...