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Day: May 19, 2022

EDUCATION: Early Years Team receives Teaching Council’s Quality Mark

May 19, 2022 heaneymedia

Argyll and Bute Council’s Early Years Team has received the General Teaching Council Scotland’s Quality Mark after gaining an Excellence in Professional Learning Award from the organisation.

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HEALTH: Open, honest and transparent approach to decision making helps mitigate risks

May 19, 2022 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton A  Healthcare Improvement Scotland report into the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, which serves West Dunbartonshire and Argyll, has revealed high patient satisfaction

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JOURNALISM: Newspapers must fulfil their role in keeping the public informed without fear of intimidation or harassment.”

May 19, 2022 heaneymedia

Wealthy individuals attempting to “avoid scrutiny and public criticism” through use of SLAPPs, says Society of Editors Urgent reform is required to put an end

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HEALTH: BAILLIE SUPPORTS BLADDER CANCER AWARENESS

May 19, 2022 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton  Jackie Baillie is supporting calls to create awareness around bladder cancer symptoms in a bid to save lives. May is Bladder Cancer

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POLITICS: Coalition takes control of Argyll and Bute Council

May 19, 2022 heaneymedia

The new Provost Maurice Corry and council leader Robin Currie. Top picture Helensburgh seafront and top Oban distillery and McCaig’s Folly. Pictures by Bill Heaney

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REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

by Bill Heaney UK Reform leader Malcolm Offord today criticised increases to the minimum wage and improvements to workers’ rights across the UK. Scottish Labour

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ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN

ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN
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Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc Dumbarton. One week to go until our big closing #litterpick of this year’s #BigClydeCleanUp at Havoc. Don’t be shy, come

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ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP Great to have the support of Brendan O’Hara MP. Together, we’re standing up for our communities, protecting

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Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond

Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond

Boat began to sink between Inchmurrin Island and the Boturrich shoreline on Sunday A helicopter helped rescue three people who were trapped on a boat

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BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

Biography Having a Reputation A new biography of James Bryce, one-time Chief Secretary of Ireland and supporter of Irish Home Rule, reveals the astonishingly varied

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LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

by Lucy Ashton Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today set out how his party will legislate to make schools smartphone-free environments, as part

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Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

by Bill Heaney Russell Findlay has today outlined his party’s plans to tackle Scotland’s pothole epidemic, which he says is “a monument to two decades

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