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Day: February 3, 2023

EVENTS: LGBT+ Rainbow Flag Raising Ceremony

February 3, 2023 heaneymedia

The Rainbow Flag will be raised by Provost Douglas McAllister at the flag pole at Solidarity Plaza, Dumbarton Road, Clydebank on Saturday, 4 February 2023

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BLOOMING LOVELY: It’s All Go At Well-being Garden’s Gazebo

February 3, 2023 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton The well-being garden at the Vale of Leven hospital is ready to burst into bloom after a team of volunteers from Work

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BREAKING NEWS: Police believe missing dog walker Nicola Bulley fell into River Wyre

February 3, 2023 heaneymedia

Police are treating the case as missing person inquiry Police investigating the disappearance of missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley say they believe she fell into the River Wyre while

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NOSTROVIA! BAILLIE WELCOMES LOCH LOMOND SPIRIT BRANDS TO ASDA

February 3, 2023 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney  Jackie Baillie has welcomed news that Asda and Loch Lomond Group have signed a new deal which will see three of the

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SNP must immediately publish full review into Adam Graham case

February 3, 2023 heaneymedia

Call to shut up the SNP spin doctors and come clean with the outcome of review By Bill Heaney The Scottish Conservatives are today demanding

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PLANNING: DUMBUCK HOTEL DEMOLITION PROPOSAL

February 3, 2023 heaneymedia

Happy days at Dumbuck Hotel, scene of celebrations for so many Dumbarton families and friends. By Bill Heaney Hundreds of Dumbartonians will be sad to

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Recent Posts

  • Major dance festival Terminal V to be held on banks of River Clyde
  • DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK BY BILL HEANEY
  • Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland
  • What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …
  • 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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