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Day: January 31, 2024

NORTHERN IRELAND: O’Neill will be First Minister as UK spells out the deal

January 31, 2024 heaneymedia

By Democrat reporter The return of Stormont’s power sharing institutions with Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill as first minister will be a moment of “very great significance”, party leader Mary

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MEMORIAL: CREW OF K13 ARE REMEMBERED AT CLYDE SHIPYARD

January 31, 2024 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton VETERANS and serving Royal Navy submariners gathered recently to remember those lost during an early maritime disaster. Submarine K13 sank during sea

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Police Scotland Argyll & West Dunbartonshire

January 31, 2024 heaneymedia

Police Scotland Argyll & West Dunbartonshire Police Scotland is recruiting police officers in rural areas of Scotland. We are encouraging applications from people who share

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FERRET INVESTIGATION: ‘Hard to fathom’: second ex-Shell employee added to Sepa’s board

January 31, 2024 heaneymedia

Author: Paul Dobson in The Ferret The Scottish Government has appointed a former head of North Sea exploration at oil giant Shell to the board

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Disposable vapes to be banned over concerns of sharp increase in children’s use

January 31, 2024 heaneymedia

Monday 29 January 2024  It will also become illegal for anyone born after January 1 2009 to buy tobacco under the plan to create a

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Derogatory texts between Humza Yousaf and Jason Leitch released

January 31, 2024 heaneymedia

Humza Yousaf was justice secretary and health secretary during the pandemic while Jason Leitch was the country’s national clinical director By Bill Heaney Unlike the

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  • Pope Leo X1V discharged from hospital days after lung cancer surgery
  • Boy, 16, and 80-year-old man die in light aircraft crash at Drymen, near Loch Lomond
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  • Edinburgh Book Festival E-news: 16 October 2026 edition
  • Celtic Connections reveals 2027 festival programme
  • October progress on the roadworks at The Milton, near Dumbarton, which look nearly complete now

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Pope Leo X1V discharged from hospital days after lung cancer surgery

Pope Leo X1V discharged from hospital days after lung cancer surgery

By Sarah Rainsford Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent. Reporting from Rome 17 October 2026, 13:37 BST Updated 1 hour ago Pope Leo XIV has been discharged

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Boy, 16, and 80-year-old man die in light aircraft crash at Drymen, near Loch Lomond

Boy, 16, and 80-year-old man die in light aircraft crash at Drymen, near Loch Lomond

The light aircraft crashed a few miles north east of Drymen near Stirling by Claire Diamond BBC Scotland News 17 October 2026 A 16-year-old boy

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YER HAVING A LAUGH. NO WONDER OUR COUNCIL TAX IS EXTORIONATE

YER HAVING A LAUGH. NO WONDER OUR COUNCIL TAX IS EXTORIONATE

Nice to see someone has kept their sense of humour in the trying circumstances in which the people at the end of the phone are

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Edinburgh Book Festival E-news: 16 October 2026 edition

Edinburgh Book Festival E-news: 16 October 2026 edition

View this email in your browser Autumn is fully upon us 🍂 October in Edinburgh: the leaves are changing colour, the rain is making reading

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Celtic Connections reveals 2027 festival programme

Celtic Connections reveals 2027 festival programme

Musicians from over 20 countries will perform at this year’s festival by Liam O’Heanai A tribute to the Beatles, a takeover of the Kelvingrove Art

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October progress on the roadworks at The Milton, near Dumbarton, which look nearly complete now

October progress on the roadworks at The Milton, near Dumbarton, which look nearly complete now

Pix by Pedro

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HELENSBURGH SAYS NO! Controversial supermarket plan for waterfront rejected

HELENSBURGH SAYS NO! Controversial supermarket plan for waterfront rejected

Locals said the new supermarket would affect the town’s character and was not needed 15 October 2026 by Bill Heaney A controversial plan to site

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INVESTIGATION: WHY PLANNING APPLICATION FOR TRACK TO HONEYPOT FARM AT GARTOCHARN HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

INVESTIGATION: WHY PLANNING APPLICATION FOR TRACK TO HONEYPOT FARM AT GARTOCHARN HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

parkswatchscotland by Nick Kempe An application for planning permission to the Loch Lomond Park Authority for a new access track to Honeypot Farm and Honeywagon

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