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Day: August 25, 2024

SUNDAY MAIL: Sickening pictures reveal real story of filth at £1 billion showpiece hospital

August 25, 2024 heaneymedia

Investigative journalist Hannah Rodger, chief reporter at the Sunday Mail, has come up with yet another exclusive story about the long-running scandal of dirt and

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RAAC AND RUIN: Cole-Hamilton urges ministers to work with insurance companies to ensure cover

August 25, 2024 heaneymedia

Cole-Hamilton urges UK and Scottish Housing ministers to work with insurance companies to ensure RAAC cover Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today urged

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PARKSWATCH: FLAMINGO LAND QUESTIONS REMAIN TO BE ANSWERED

August 25, 2024 heaneymedia

The involvement of Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park planners in Flamingo Land – update By Nick Kempe on Aug 24, 2024 12:12 pm Information

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Meander for Mental Health returns – and everyone’s welcome

August 25, 2024 heaneymedia

Meander for Mental Health returns – and everyone’s welcome By Lucy Ashton People are being invited to head to Leverndale Hospital in Glasgow next month,

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Big turn-out on Helensburgh Pier and on Waverley as she sailed past on Sunday

August 25, 2024 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton A glimmer of hope for discussions with the powers that be, after substantial crowds turned out in support championing for Helensburgh Pier

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“Eye-watering” figures reveal close to 6,000 ScotRail trains cancelled in recent months

August 25, 2024 heaneymedia

Sunday 25 August 2024 The train now standing at platform 2 at Dumbarton Central Station is going … nowhere  By Lucy Ashton Almost 6,000 trains

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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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