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Day: August 2, 2024

NOTEBOOK: COUNCIL BIN AWARD’S A LOAD OF RUBBISH

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

NOTEBOOK by BILL HEANEY Haud me back, please don’t make me laugh, but the “news” that “a chatbot service on West Dunbartonshire Council’s website that

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MENTAL HEALTH: Bogus psychiatrist who treated hundreds of patients in Scotland loses appeal against £1.3 million fraud

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

 August 2, 2024 Zholia Alemi’s spent 22 years working as a consultant psychiatrist, earning £1.3m from the NHS, prescribing powerful drugs and even sectioning patients…

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SCOTLAND’S “SHAMEFUL” HEALTH INEQUALITIES EXPOSED IN CARDIAC ARREST REPORT

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

Scottish Labour has said that health inequalities in Scotland are costing lives, as a shocking new report reveals the gulf in cardiac arrest risk between

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GOLDEN JUBILEE: Heart services receive funding for patients’ mental health support

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

August 01, 2024 Dr John Sharp Head of Psychology at the Golden Jubilee University National Hospital. By Lucy Ashton Heart services at NHS Golden Jubilee

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Hospital inquiry rejects NHS board’s report as evidence

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Royal Children’s Hospital in Glasgow is Scotland’s biggest hospital. By Lisa Summers BBC Scotland Health Correspondent The public inquiry

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COURTS: £9.5m court action against Rangers over football kit sales to ‘kick-off’

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

Elite Sports Group Ltd lawyers claim the Ibrox club breached a contract which allowed it to supply the strips A multi-million pound court action brought

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News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

Recent Posts

  • DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK: Residents concerned about the “nightmare” bin restructure launch a campaign urging the council to act — and act now. 
  • Church leaders welcome new £1million listed buildings repair fund
  • Scottish Labour leadership contenders to face off in Scotland Tonight hustings
  • FARMING: First cow tests positive for bluetongue virus in Scotland
  • CATASTROPHIC: LOCH LOMOND GRADING CLASSED AS ‘POOR’ FOR SCOTLAND’S SALMON RIVERS IN 2027
  • WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE APPOINTS NEW CHIEF OFFICER FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

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DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK: Residents concerned about the “nightmare” bin restructure launch a campaign urging the council to act — and act now. 

DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK:  Residents concerned about the “nightmare” bin restructure launch a campaign urging the council to act — and act now. 

by BILL HEANEY The bins … the bins … my seat on West Dunbartonshire Council for the bins.  That will be the response of our

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Church leaders welcome new £1million listed buildings repair fund

Church leaders welcome new £1million listed buildings repair fund

Rt Rev Gordon Kennedy, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, with his wife, Fiona, and Rt Rev John Keenan, Bishop of Paisley. by BILL HEANEY

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Scottish Labour leadership contenders to face off in Scotland Tonight hustings

Scottish Labour leadership contenders to face off in Scotland Tonight hustings

STV political editor Colin Mackay will moderate debate between Michael Marra and Joe Fagan Scottish Labour leadership contenders Michael Marra and Joe Fagan will face

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FARMING: First cow tests positive for bluetongue virus in Scotland

FARMING: First cow tests positive for bluetongue virus in Scotland

The potentially fatal bluetongue virus has been recorded on four farms in Scotland. by BILL HEANEY The first case of the potentially fatal bluetongue virus

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CATASTROPHIC: LOCH LOMOND GRADING CLASSED AS ‘POOR’ FOR SCOTLAND’S SALMON RIVERS IN 2027

CATASTROPHIC: LOCH LOMOND GRADING CLASSED AS ‘POOR’ FOR SCOTLAND’S SALMON RIVERS IN 2027

A dinghy on the shore at Inchcailloch with The Cobbler high above Arrochar. by BILL HEANEY The Scottish Government has proposed that 123 out of

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WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE APPOINTS NEW CHIEF OFFICER FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE APPOINTS NEW CHIEF OFFICER FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

Caroline Sinclair, Beth Culshaw, Peter Hessett, Michelle McGinty and Jann Gardner. by BILL HEANEY West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, the organisation caught up

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East Dunbartonshire MSP signs open letter backing local journalism

East Dunbartonshire MSP signs open letter backing local journalism

by Democrat reporter The Scottish Government is being urged to introduce a range of measures, including a dedicated fund, to support local journalism and in

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Scottish Lib Dems set out plans to tackle 37,657 cancer cases

Scottish Lib Dems set out plans to tackle 37,657 cancer cases

by Bill Heaney Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP has urged the SNP government to listen to his party’s calls to roll out

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