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Day: September 23, 2022

Mini Budget 22: Government cancels planned increases to alcohol duty

September 23, 2022 heaneymedia

By Valeria Martinez The chancellor announced an 18-month transitional measure for wine duty. The government will scrap the planned alcohol duty increase for wine, beer

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NOTEBOOK: WHEN THE QUEEN COULD TRAVEL BY TRAIN IN SAFETY

September 23, 2022 heaneymedia

I remember the old steam trains. And the clouds of smoke and dirty black soot falling from the sky as they passed through Dumbarton East,

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BOOZE BAN: ScotRail total alcohol ban ‘out of step and out of touch’

September 23, 2022 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney ScotRail’s alcohol ban has been branded ‘out of step and out of touch’, as research shows the SNP-owned company is one of

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Radical under-funding leads to police spending £10 million on vehicle hires

September 23, 2022 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has criticised the Scottish Government for cutting police budgets, after a freedom of information

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  • Major dance festival Terminal V to be held on banks of River Clyde
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  • Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland
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  • STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met
  • Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children

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Major dance festival Terminal V to be held on banks of River Clyde

Major dance festival Terminal V to be held on banks of River Clyde

The festival will be held on the banks of the Clyde next June Electronic music festival Terminal V will be held on the banks of

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DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK BY BILL HEANEY

DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK BY BILL HEANEY

by BILL HEANEY Whose idea was it to allow the Orange Order to parade down Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Northern Ireland, at the weekend? And

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Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland

Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland

by LUCY ASHTON A new Scotland-wide campaign has launched a warning that adult criminals are grooming and exploiting children to commit crime, enabling them to

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What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …

What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …

It may look like Garvaghy Road residents and Sinn Féin are in lock-step. The reality is more complex Mark Hennessy in The Irish Times Tuesday,

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STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met

STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met

Just how bad are the NHS statistics for Public Health in Scotland? Dumbarton’s MSP laid them out for all the world to see following the

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Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children

Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children

by LUCY ASHTON Former snooker world champion Graeme Dott has been jailed for seven years for sexually abusing children. The 49-year-old subjected a girl and

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LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats

LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats

by LUCY ASHTON Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP said today that his party will continue to fight to fix the NHS after

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LibDems comment on “damning” Promise report and insists government publish drug deaths stats for care-experienced people

LibDems comment on “damning” Promise report and insists government publish drug deaths stats for care-experienced people

LibDem MSP Duncan Dunlop, who has experience of being in care, Maree Todd, Minister for Children and Labour spokesperson Katherine Sangster by BILL HEANEY Scottish

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