September 2, 2024 As his country’s most prominent poet, Heaney struggled to reconcile his vision of poetry with the Troubles tearing the Irish apart “The
Day: September 3, 2024
£700 MILLION AXED FROM COUNCILS’ SPENDING BUDGET
A fiscal firestorm of the SNP Government’s own creation, says Cole-Hamilton By Bill Heaney The SNP is raiding climate budgets and selling out our future
Unison members reject latest council pay offer
The unions had warned there would be a repeat of scenes from the summer of 2022, when rubbish piled up on the streets in cities.
HEALTH: Nursing and midwifery vacancies still far too high
By Bill Heaney NHS Scotland workforce statistics showing that there are 3,102 nursing and midwifery vacancies as at the quarter ending June 2024, Scottish Liberal
Mental health treatment targets missed as 2,163 people wait more than a year
By Bill Heaney Scottish Liberal Democrat Alex Cole-Hamilton today said Scotland needs world class mental health services after new figures showed the mental health waiting
New Provost is first female first citizen in West Dunbartonshire
By Bill Heaney Councillor Karen Murray Conaghan has been elected as West Dunbartonshire’s new Provost. The Dumbarton councillor was appointed to the role at the