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Day: August 30, 2024

RELIGION: DUMBARTON-BASED PRIEST BUILT THE BASILICA AT KNOCK, COUNTY MAYO

August 30, 2024 heaneymedia

Editors’ Note Sacred space Visitors to Mayo invariably speak of the weather, and never in flattering terms. Austen Ivereigh was at it in his View from Knock

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AUDREY’S IN CHARGE AS SUPPORT SERVICE EXPANDS AT VALE OF LEVEN HOSPITAL

August 30, 2024 heaneymedia

By David Coyle NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s Support and Information Service has collaborated with local partner organisations to provide more in-person assistance at the

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‘Pub of the Year’ is bar that serves up ‘feel good’ beer and food

August 30, 2024 heaneymedia

The Glasgow hostelry taking home the prestigious title of Scotland’s Pub of the Year is … By Liam Lennox A renowned bar in the heart

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Outdoor education & a community watersports hub in Balloch alternative to Flamingo Land

August 30, 2024 heaneymedia

Sunday Herald 25th August  parkswatchscotland Cairngorms and Lomond & Trossachs National Parks By Nick Kempe on August 28, 2024 The importance of outdoor education, the

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MSP BAILLIE SAYS NO TO FLAMINGO LAND PLAN FOR BALLOCH

August 30, 2024 heaneymedia

MSP JACKIE BAILLIE SAYS NO TO FLAMINGO LAND PLAN Scottish Labour’s Deputy Leader, Jackie Baillie, has revealed that she will be objecting to Flamingo Land’s Lomond

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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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