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Day: May 31, 2022

TRIBUTE TO US AMBASSADOR FRANK MEEHAN, WHO HAS DIED AGED 98 AT HIS HOME IN HELENSBURGH

May 31, 2022 heaneymedia

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

May 31, 2022 heaneymedia

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

May 31, 2022 heaneymedia

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

May 31, 2022 heaneymedia

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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ENTERTAINMENT: Celtic Connections returns with special summer concerts

May 31, 2022 heaneymedia

Celtic Connections, the UK’s premiere celebration of roots music, is set to showcase a series of special concerts this summer. Best known as the largest

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MUSIC: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER IN WATERFORD

May 31, 2022 heaneymedia

Notable Works is at St Joseph, St Benildus & St Mary’s Parish, Waterford, Ireland Bernie Heaney’s talented cousins, the O’Beirne family from Waterford in Ireland, scored a

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  • LABOUR PLEDGES ACTION AS SCHOOL VIOLENCE RATES SOAR
  • Nigel Farage on Clydeside: Reform will become the biggest opposition party at Holyrood
  • SATURDAY: Iranian man and Romanian woman arrested at Faslane nuclear base …
  • LOCAL WOMEN BEING ‘LEFT IN LIMBO’ AS FOUR-YEAR WAITS FOR HYSTERECTOMY
  • New childcare support will save Ministry of Defence families up to £6000 a year …
  • UK allows US to use British bases to strike sites targeting Strait of Hormuz

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LABOUR PLEDGES ACTION AS SCHOOL VIOLENCE RATES SOAR

LABOUR PLEDGES ACTION AS SCHOOL VIOLENCE RATES SOAR

 Labour education spokesperson Paul O’Kane and First Minister John Swinney. by Bill Heaney Scottish Labour has accused First Minister John Swinney of “sitting on his

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Nigel Farage on Clydeside: Reform will become the biggest opposition party at Holyrood

Nigel Farage on Clydeside: Reform will become the biggest opposition party at Holyrood

Nigel Farage speaks at the Reform UK Scotland conference in Bishopton by Bill Heaney Nigel Farage was branded a threat to the Union after he

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SATURDAY: Iranian man and Romanian woman arrested at Faslane nuclear base …

SATURDAY: Iranian man and Romanian woman arrested at Faslane nuclear base …

LATEST: SECURITY BREACH AT FASLANE Two people have been arrested after trying to enter the naval base in Scotland where Britain’s nuclear submarines are based.

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LOCAL WOMEN BEING ‘LEFT IN LIMBO’ AS FOUR-YEAR WAITS FOR HYSTERECTOMY

LOCAL WOMEN BEING ‘LEFT IN LIMBO’ AS FOUR-YEAR  WAITS FOR HYSTERECTOMY

 by Lucy Ashton Dumbarton, Helensburgh and Lomond MSP Jackie Baillie has accused the SNP of “risking women’s health” after new figures revealed waits of up

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New childcare support will save Ministry of Defence families up to £6000 a year …

New childcare support will save Ministry of Defence families up to £6000 a year …

New Defence scheme to transform support for forces families with young children will be rolled out from September Defence Secretary John Healey pictured with a

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UK allows US to use British bases to strike sites targeting Strait of Hormuz

UK allows US to use British bases to strike sites targeting Strait of Hormuz

Pictured above: An Israeli self-propelled howitzer artillery gun fires rounds towards southern Lebanon from a position in the upper Galilee in northern Israel near the

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Solicitor General warns against parents sleeping in same bed as babies …

Solicitor General warns against parents sleeping in same bed as babies …

by Bill Heaney Solicitor General Ruth Charteris KC is urging professionals to share advice on safer sleeping for babies. This follows a review of deaths

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Andy White and David Smith to stand for Reform UK in Clydebank and Dumbarton

Andy White and David Smith to stand for Reform UK in Clydebank and Dumbarton

Pictured is Andy White (fourth from right) at turn of the century event in West Dunbartonshire with Labour colleagues. by Bill Heaney The notorious bully

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