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Day: May 18, 2022

SPORT: GERS SUPPORTERS SUFFER IN SEVILLE SOCCER SHOCKER

May 18, 2022 heaneymedia

PICTURES BY BILL HEANEY Rangers were pipped at the post when they lost on penalties after extra time in Seville last night. The fans’ dreams

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FERRIES: SNP Finance Secretary Katie Forbes appears unfazed by questions over delivery dates

May 18, 2022 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney  When will the  Scottish Government provide an update on the anticipated delivery date of the ferries under construction at Ferguson Marine, in

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FOODBANK MADE TO COMPENSATE WORKERS FOR UNFAIR DISMISSAL

May 18, 2022 heaneymedia

A Dumbarton food bank has complained bitterly  at being forced to pay £8000 in compensation to a former worker “during the worst cost of living

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SEVILLE: Rangers in Seville: Boys want win for grandad Walter Smith

May 18, 2022 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney Helensburgh and Dumbarton were well represented amongst tens of thousands of Rangers fans in Seville including the grandsons of club legend Walter

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HEALTH: BAILLIE CALLS ON CABINET SECRETARY TO SORT A&E CRISIS

May 18, 2022 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton Jackie Baillie has demanded Humza Yousaf steps in to sort out the A&E crisis which saw less than two thirds of people

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POLITICS: SCOTTISH LABOUR NAMES ITS TEAM TO RUN WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL

May 18, 2022 heaneymedia

Provost Douglas McAllister; Council leader Cllr Martin Rooney and Cllr Michelle McGinty. By Bill Heaney The Scottish Labour  Party councillor Douglas McAllister from the Kilpatrick

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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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