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Day: March 8, 2024

THOUGHTS FROM MSPS FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

March 8, 2024 heaneymedia

Carol Mochan, Scottish Labour MSP Around the world, women face significant challenges, and some of the examples of that this year feel particularly heinous. As

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HOUSING: COUNCIL HOUSE RENTS GO UP BY SEVEN PER CENT IN WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE

March 8, 2024 heaneymedia

Published 07 March 2024 By Bill Heaney Following a council house rents increase of almost seven per cent, tenants across West Dunbartonshire will benefit from

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Radio team on track for hospital broadcasting awards

March 8, 2024 heaneymedia

Shortlisted: HBS Glasgow volunteer presenters Hannah Sweeney, Chiara Marchetti, Val Ferrari. Emily Page, Flora Csizamadia and Robert Craw. Volunteers with Glasgow’s Hospital Broadcasting Service have

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RELIGION: Ordination of new Bishop of Galloway

March 8, 2024 heaneymedia

8 March 2024 Father Frank Dougan, Archbishops William Nolan and Leo Cushley and Bishop Joseph Toal. Above is Pope Francis, who appointed the new bishop.

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Garelochhead Post Office handed stay of execution

March 8, 2024 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton A village post office has sent out a use it or lose it message to customers.  Growing numbers of patrons have ceased

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ROW OF THE VALKYRIES: ALL FEMALE TEAM PLAN TO MAKE HISTORY ROWING THE ATLANTIC

March 8, 2024 heaneymedia

Alice Aindow, Nicola Hall, Alex Kelley, Izzy Rawlinson, Lily-Mae Fisher, Aaby Aldridge. By Lucy Ashton Five Royal Navy sailors will make history later this year

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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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