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Day: August 17, 2023

ABUSE: Celtic ‘in denial’ about boy’s club link

August 17, 2023 heaneymedia

Football club insists the youth side was a ‘separate entity’ but will face a compensation claim from around 30 victims of sexual abuse 16 AUGUST

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Provost’s Civic Awards – Nominate your local hero now!

August 17, 2023 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton The search is on for West Dunbartonshire’s community champions as nominations for the Provost’s Civic Awards in partnership with CCG open today.

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OBITUARY: Chat show host Michael Parkinson dies aged 88

August 17, 2023 heaneymedia

Presenter interviewed Muhammad Ali, David Bowie and John Lennon and Billy Connolly Chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson, who has died at the age of

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ENVIRONMENT: Climate and nature friendly visitor hubs on the cards for National Park

August 17, 2023 heaneymedia

Pictured above:  Chief Executive Gordon Watson,  Government Minister Lorna Slater and Heather ‘the Weather’ Reid, chair of the Loch Lomond Park Authority, pictured at Tarbet,

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WHY SCOTTISH COURTS AND COUNCILS NEED TO BE MORE OPEN AND TRANSPARENT

August 17, 2023 heaneymedia

POSTED ON: AUGUST 16, 2023 BY CLAIRE MEADOWS Tristan Kirk, a court reporter for the Evening Standard, has been praised by the head of the

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  • 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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