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Day: September 17, 2024

health: HEARTY WELCOME FOR CARDIAC PATIENTS AT VALE HOSPITAL

September 17, 2024 heaneymedia

Top of page: Cardiac Rehab team at the heart of the Vale. Cardiac Rehabilitation specialist physiotherapist Rhona Burch and Clinical Nurse specialist Lillian Armstrong in

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BAILLIE CALLS ON SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE TO TEAR UP FLAMINGO LAND PLAN

September 17, 2024 heaneymedia

By Democrat reporter MSP Jackie Baillie has called for a new approach from the landowners of West Riverside, Scottish Enterprise, to tear up their exclusivity

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NOTEBOOK: EVEN THE FLAMINGO LAND REFUSAL ANNOUNCEMENT SMACKS OF SPIN (updated)

September 17, 2024 heaneymedia

NOTEBOOK by BILL HEANEY It took a boring five-hour long meeting in a Balloch church today for the Loch Lomond and Trossachs planning authority to

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Flamingo Land rejection is huge victory for community, nature and Scotland (updated)

September 17, 2024 heaneymedia

By Democrat reporter The rejection of Flamingo Land’s proposed destructive Loch Lomond mega-resort is a huge victory for the community of Balloch, for nature and

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Huw Edwards spared jail as he is sentenced for indecent images of children

September 17, 2024 heaneymedia

BBC condemns former anchor as his extraordinary fall from grace is sealed with four-decade career left ‘in tatters’   Huw Edwards arriving at court flanked

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Thousands of students in Scotland at risk of homelessness

September 17, 2024 heaneymedia

By Charlotte Morris Thousands of students across Scotland are at risk of homelessness and unable to access the right housing in the country’s biggest cities,

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  • LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats
  • LibDems comment on “damning” Promise report and insists government publish drug deaths stats for care-experienced people

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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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Scot Lib Dem Highland MSPs write to government over council plans

Scot Lib Dem Highland MSPs write to government over council plans

Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth and Morven-May MacCallum, LibDem MSP by BILL HEANEY Ahead of a parliamentary debate about the Scottish Government’s plans to reorganise

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