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Day: March 25, 2024

WEATHER: Snow could make Easter eggstra special this year

March 25, 2024 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton Several forecasters are predicting that snow will fall across most of Scotland just as schools and workplaces break up for the Easter

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SIR JOHN LAVERY’S PAINTING OF DON ROBERTO

March 25, 2024 heaneymedia

Hugh Jordan took these pictures of brilliant portraits currently being exhibited at the Ulster Museum. One of them has a big Dumbarton connection in that

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SNP MP Joanna Cherry accuses Police Scotland of ‘McCarthyism’ over hate incidents

March 25, 2024 heaneymedia

Joanna Cherry suggested that logging hate incidents was curbing freedom of speech By Bill Heaney A senior Westminster SNP MP has branded Police Scotland’s logging

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HOSPITAL CONSULTANTS CLAIM A&E SAFETY WARNINGS WERE IGNORED BY WATCHDOG

March 25, 2024 heaneymedia

If almost 30 named consultants raising very serious fears for patient safety does not prompt a rigorous independent investigation, what will? By Andrew Picken &

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RADIO CLYDE’S LORRAINE HAS YET ANOTHER GOLDEN EVENING

March 25, 2024 heaneymedia

Former Dumbarton Lennox Herald journalist Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead is just back from another awards night in London with another winning haul at the Commercial Radio

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MSP’S FURY AS POLICE decide to class criticism as a hate incident that will remain on record

March 25, 2024 heaneymedia

March 25, 2024 Murdo Fraser MSP is demanding the incident is deleted  from Police Scotland’s records. By Lucy Ashton Scottish Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser could

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DUMBARTON DEMOCRAT: IF IT WISNAE FOR THE VOLUNTEERS WHERE WID WE BE?

DUMBARTON DEMOCRAT: IF IT WISNAE FOR THE VOLUNTEERS WHERE WID WE BE?

Can’t make it to a polling station on 7th May 2026? You can apply for a proxy vote, allowing someone you trust to cast your

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Scottish Liberal Democrats set out plans on drugs and homelessness

Scottish Liberal Democrats set out plans on drugs and homelessness

by Lucy Ashton Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has used a visit to Glasgow City Mission to set out his party’s plans for tackling

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INVESTIGATION: Argyll soldiers in Kenya babies scandal

INVESTIGATION: Argyll soldiers in Kenya babies scandal

by Josephine Casserly, Ivana Davidovic, BBC News, and Bill Heaney “Edward”, a nine-year-old Kenyan boy, has always been aware that his father worked for the British

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Common-sense Tory rural manifesto will end two decades of SNP neglect

Common-sense Tory rural manifesto will end two decades of SNP neglect

Russell Findlay on the election campaign trail amongst farmers. by Bill Heaney The Scottish Conservatives will today (Wednesday) publish a dedicated rural manifesto designed to

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REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

by Bill Heaney UK Reform leader Malcolm Offord today criticised increases to the minimum wage and improvements to workers’ rights across the UK. Scottish Labour

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ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN

ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN
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Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc Dumbarton. One week to go until our big closing #litterpick of this year’s #BigClydeCleanUp at Havoc. Don’t be shy, come

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ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP Great to have the support of Brendan O’Hara MP. Together, we’re standing up for our communities, protecting

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