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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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FLAMINGOLAND: Save Loch Lomond campaign rebooted as new application lodged

FLAMINGOLAND:  Save Loch Lomond campaign rebooted as new application lodged

By Lucy Ashton A Green campaign which saw a record 60,000 objections lodged against a Flamingoland development at Loch Lomond has been rebooted after the

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POLICE MESSAGE: Suspicious fire in Dumbarton

POLICE MESSAGE: Suspicious fire in Dumbarton

Police Scotland is appealing for information following a suspicious fire in Dumbarton. Around 11.25pm on Tuesday, 31 May, 2022, police received a report of a

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CRIME: MURDER HUNT MAY BE CALLED OFF AFTER PRIME SUSPECT FOUND DEAD

CRIME: MURDER HUNT MAY BE CALLED OFF AFTER PRIME SUSPECT FOUND DEAD

By Bill Heaney Pedophile Norman Duncan died suddenly at his home in Vale of Leven last week leading to unconfirmed speculation that he murdered and

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TRIBUTE TO US AMBASSADOR FRANK MEEHAN, WHO HAS DIED AGED 98 AT HIS HOME IN HELENSBURGH

TRIBUTE TO US AMBASSADOR FRANK MEEHAN, WHO HAS DIED AGED 98 AT HIS HOME IN HELENSBURGH

Obituary FRANCIS J MEEHAN, US AMBASSADOR Born: February 14, 1924, East Orange, New Jersey, USA of Scottish parents from Clydebank Died: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute,

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ScotRail: SNP government optimistic over new 4.2% pay offer

ScotRail: SNP government optimistic over new 4.2% pay offer

By Bill Heaney Going to the big match at Hampden on Wednesday night? You might just be able to get there by rail but, so

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ABUSE: Five domestic abusers sentenced to 61 years in prison

ABUSE: Five domestic abusers sentenced to 61 years in prison

By Bill Heaney Updated May 31, 2022 “It’s just a domestic,” I would hear them say when I listened into the police radio of an

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COUNCIL: Workers across every council in Scotland on verge of strike action

COUNCIL: Workers across every council in Scotland on verge of strike action

Unions have said that unless negotiations reopen with a ‘vastly improved offer’ then industrial action looks ‘inevitable’   The unions in West Dunbartonshire and Argyll

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