By Lucy Ashton Cornton Vale, which serves West Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute and was formerly Scotland’s only women’s prison, will close early in the
Day: December 16, 2022
LABOUR LEADER TAKES ON STURGEON OVER CANCER DEATHS AND WAITING TIMES FOR TREATMENT
By Bill Heaney The dreaded C word raised its ugly head in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday when Labour leader Anas Sarwar revealed that the
Over 100,000 businesses ‘short-changed’ by SNP Budget, say Tories
Friday, 16 December, 2022 By Lucy Ashton The Conservatives have accused the SNP’s stand-in finance spokesperson John Swinney of ‘short-changing’ over 100,000 Scottish business properties
RELIGION: Anti-sectarianism campaign takes off in West Dunbartonshire
By Bill Heaney Nil by Mouth has launched the ‘Writing on the Wall’ campaign to encourage local people to report incidences of sectarianism and for
EDUCATION: Funding aids growth of STEM subjects
By Aileen Maclennan New funding to support Argyll and Bute’s next generation of engineers, scientists and IT experts will help boost the area’s future economic
BOOKS: JOSEPH ROTH: a chameleon in a thousand guises
December 2022 BIOGRAPHY On the Precipice Katrina Goldstone Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth, by Kieron Pim, Granta, 527 pp, £25, ISBN:978-1783785094 When Joseph