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Day: June 12, 2024

EUROS PARTY PIE BOX FROM THE BELL CENTRE BUTCHERS

June 12, 2024 heaneymedia

Bell Centre Butchers Dumbarton is at Bell Centre Butchers Dumbarton. EUROS PARTY PIE BOX ORDERS ONLY Having mates round for the game why not try our pie

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Helensburgh Community Hub’s family fun day

June 12, 2024 heaneymedia

Let’s get the kids’ school holidays started in style! There will be FREE face painting, plenty of cake and great deals on books.  Our Family

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Private schools such as Lomond in Helensburgh and St Aloysius in Glasgow may become smaller if Labour win the election

June 12, 2024 heaneymedia

By Graeme Mccormick If Labour put VAT on school fees it is possible that around 10% of children will move from the private sector to

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VALE HOSPITAL WATCH CELEBRATES ITS 20TH BIRTHDAY

June 12, 2024 heaneymedia

Vale of Leven Hospital Watch Happy 20th Anniversary Hospital Watch Group.  20 years of Caring, Fighting, Demonstrating and recently moving forward with NHS Board &

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Scottish Conservatives to toast success of Scotch whisky industry

June 12, 2024 heaneymedia

Wednesday 12 June 2024 Conservative leader in waiting Craig Hoy and Ballantine’s Scotch Whisky. By Bill Heaney The Scottish Conservatives today underscored their “unwavering support”

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JUST SAY NO TO FLAMINGO LAND

June 12, 2024 heaneymedia

Flamingo Land ‘desperate’ to accuse 90,000 objectors of being ‘robots’ says Ross Greer MSP WEDNESDAY, 19th June 2pm. Let’s show flaminGOland representatives & LLTNP we

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  • 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
  • LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats

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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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Scottish Conservatives to warn of Swinney “tax bombshell” on the way

Scottish Conservatives to warn of Swinney “tax bombshell” on the way

by BILL HEANEY The Scottish Conservatives will lead a debate tomorrow (Wednesday) in Holyrood to warn of another SNP “tax bombshell” that could hit middle-income

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