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Day: March 3, 2024

MARIE CURIE RECEIVES PARLIAMENTRY AND PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR FANTASTIC SERVICE

March 3, 2024 heaneymedia

This is Petra McMillan and her sister Gwen’s 13th collection for Marie Curie’s annual Great Daffodil Appeal. But it is her new dog Rosie’s first.

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MOTHER’S DAY NEXT SUNDAY: BOOK YOUR TABLE NOW

March 3, 2024 heaneymedia

Let’s hear it for the ladies that help make the world go round! Book to enjoy an extra special Mother’s Day (March 10th) at the

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FOOTBALL: DUMBARTON 1 PETERHEAD 0 PICTURES BY JON LEINO

March 3, 2024 heaneymedia

RUTH STRIKE EARNS THREE POINTS cinch League 2 A second-half rocket from Michael Ruth made it back-to-back wins for Dumbarton against Peterhead this afternoon. Sons

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Scottish Parliament pays tribute to RNLI on 200th anniversary

March 3, 2024 heaneymedia

Ahead of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)’s 200 year anniversary on 4 March 2024, Shetland MSP and Scottish Liberal Democrat Beatrice Wishart has lodged

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Social Security Scotland: School Age Payment

March 3, 2024 heaneymedia

Social Security Scotland The deadline to apply for Best Start Grant School Age Payment is midnight tonight. Your child could be eligible if they were

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Scottish Labour has pledged to support a music tuition platform for young people

March 3, 2024 heaneymedia

Scottish Labour has pledged to “unlock opportunities for every child” with a new music tuition platform. The party unveiled plans to establish a National Online

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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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