March 5, 2022 – THE DEMOCRAT

CHIRPY, CHIRPY, CHEEP, CHEEP: PETRA’S COINING IT IN FOR MARIE CURIE

March 5, 2022 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney Just got a tweet from my pal Petra McMillan. What was she twittering on about? It was, of course her favourite topic

Equality organisations welcome Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill

March 5, 2022 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton National LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) organisations in Scotland have welcomed the Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, published today.

Progress continues on £37m projects to transform Argyll and Bute

March 5, 2022 heaneymedia

By Aileen Maclennan Projects designed to transform Argyll and Bute and boost the appeal of its towns and villages to investors and visitors are continuing

Major dance festival Terminal V to be held on banks of River Clyde

The festival will be held on the banks of the Clyde next June Electronic music festival Terminal V will be held on the banks of

DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK BY BILL HEANEY

by BILL HEANEY Whose idea was it to allow the Orange Order to parade down Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Northern Ireland, at the weekend? And

Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland

by LUCY ASHTON A new Scotland-wide campaign has launched a warning that adult criminals are grooming and exploiting children to commit crime, enabling them to

What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …

It may look like Garvaghy Road residents and Sinn Féin are in lock-step. The reality is more complex Mark Hennessy in The Irish Times Tuesday,

STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met

Just how bad are the NHS statistics for Public Health in Scotland? Dumbarton’s MSP laid them out for all the world to see following the

Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children

by LUCY ASHTON Former snooker world champion Graeme Dott has been jailed for seven years for sexually abusing children. The 49-year-old subjected a girl and

LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats

by LUCY ASHTON Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP said today that his party will continue to fight to fix the NHS after

LibDems comment on “damning” Promise report and insists government publish drug deaths stats for care-experienced people

LibDem MSP Duncan Dunlop, who has experience of being in care, Maree Todd, Minister for Children and Labour spokesperson Katherine Sangster by BILL HEANEY Scottish

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