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Day: May 30, 2022

RELIGION: Sacrifices to support Ukraine against Russia are starting to hit home in the west

May 30, 2022 heaneymedia

By Canon Gerry Conroy As the war in the Ukraine drags on, Russia’s gamble is entering its endgame. The gamble it bet on was that

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HEALTH: BAILLIE URGES A&E CHAOS SHOULD NOT BE NORMALISED

May 30, 2022 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton Jackie Baillie has warned against normalising chaos in A&E as the latest figures show another week of poor performance. At the emergency

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SPORT: SONS MANAGER LOOKS TO FRESHEN UP THE TALENT POOL

May 30, 2022 heaneymedia

Saturday 28th May 2022   Pictures by Jon Leino THE weeks are flashing past until Dumbarton’s first competitive fixtures – but manager Stevie Farrell is looking

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DEFENCE: Alarm over nuclear safety incidents at Faslane and Coulport bases

May 30, 2022 heaneymedia

May 29, 2022 By Rob Edwards in The Ferret Nuclear safety incidents on the Clyde with the “potential” to cause radiation leaks contaminating people and

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NOTEBOOK: DUMBARTON DESERVES A COUNCIL SO MUCH BETTER THAN BEFORE

May 30, 2022 heaneymedia

West Dunbartonshire’s SNP opposition councillors appear to have suffered serious memory loss, writes Bill Heaney They are claiming that Scottish Labour, who won the local

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RELIGION: Minister becomes first woman to be appointed Principal Clerk of the General Assembly on a permanent basis

May 30, 2022 heaneymedia

The Rev Fiona Smith (left) take over from the Rev George Whyte at the General Assembly. By Cameron Brooks A minister has become the first

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News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

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  • ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN
  • Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18
  • ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP
  • Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond
  • BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal
  • LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

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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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Southport catastrophe which claimed the lives of three children and left 10 more injured, could have been – and should have been – prevented

Southport catastrophe which claimed the lives of three children and left 10 more injured, could have been – and should have been – prevented

  Southport killer’s parents ‘bear considerable blame’ for ‘preventable’ attack, damning report finds Report by Amy-Clare Martin, Crime correspondent, and Tara Cobham in The Independent Monday

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