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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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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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