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Day: October 10, 2024

ALL HOSPITAL PATIENTS WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS END TO DELAYED DISCHARGE, SAYS SARWAR

October 10, 2024 heaneymedia

Patients want discharged from hospital before Christmas, says Labour leader. By Bill Heaney For people who keep telling others to behave themselves, Scotland’s parliamentarians are

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QUESTIONS: SWINNEY AND FINDLAY GO TOE TO TOE OVER EARLY RELEASE FOR PRISONERS

October 10, 2024 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney Russell Findlay has in his time as a foot-in-the-door tabloid journalist put the frighteners on not a few hard men who ended

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GET READY FOR FIREWORKS NIGHT IN DUMBARTON

October 10, 2024 heaneymedia
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£842 million super hospital ‘not built right,’ NHS boss tells inquiry

October 10, 2024 heaneymedia

Pictured above: The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital opened in 2015. By Andrew Picken BBC News Scotland, 10 October 2024 The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH),

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Great grandmother, 80, on cusp of completing month long 100 mile walking challenge for charity in days

October 10, 2024 heaneymedia

10 October, 2024 By Cameron Brooks A great-grandmother has almost completed a 100-mile walking challenge in a third of the allotted time. Claudia Nicholson, 80,

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News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

Recent Posts

  • SARWAR: TOMORROW VOTE TO REJECT REFORM, BEAT SNP & CHANGE SCOTLAND
  • ELECTION: When is bullshit real bullshit?
  • THIS THURSDAY VOTE TO SAVE OUR NHS – DUMBARTON CANDIDATE BAILLIE COMMENTS ON HEALTH STATS
  • Thanking midwives as over 13,000 babies are born in Greater Glasgow and Clyde
  • HEARTBROKEN COUNCIL CARE WORKERS ARE HANDING IN THEIR NOTICE TO QUIT
  • UNION ACCUSES CARE BOSSES OF “FIRE AND REHIRE”

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SARWAR: TOMORROW VOTE TO REJECT REFORM, BEAT SNP & CHANGE SCOTLAND

SARWAR: TOMORROW VOTE TO REJECT REFORM, BEAT SNP & CHANGE SCOTLAND

Speaking before Scottish Labour’s eve of poll rally, Anas Sarwar, right,  has called on Scots to vote for change, reject Reform and beat the SNP. 

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ELECTION: When is bullshit real bullshit?

ELECTION: When is bullshit real bullshit?

It may be comforting to assert that one’s political enemies are bullshitters but one can’t help wondering whether this assertion is itself a piece of

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THIS THURSDAY VOTE TO SAVE OUR NHS – DUMBARTON CANDIDATE BAILLIE COMMENTS ON HEALTH STATS

THIS THURSDAY VOTE TO SAVE OUR NHS – DUMBARTON CANDIDATE BAILLIE COMMENTS ON HEALTH STATS

Dame Jackie Baillie pictured with members of her Labour campaign team in Dumbarton. by Lucy Ashton Scottish Labour has warned that “John Swinney and the

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Thanking midwives as over 13,000 babies are born in Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Thanking midwives as over 13,000 babies are born in Greater Glasgow and Clyde

by Bill Heaney Midwives across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are being thanked this International Day of the Midwife (Tuesday 5 May 2026) for the

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HEARTBROKEN COUNCIL CARE WORKERS ARE HANDING IN THEIR NOTICE TO QUIT

HEARTBROKEN COUNCIL CARE WORKERS ARE HANDING IN THEIR NOTICE TO QUIT

5 May 2026 ‘IT IS HARD TO FIND THE WORDS. IT BREAKS MY HEART’ West Dunbartonshire home carers on devastating rota changes  Home care workers

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UNION ACCUSES CARE BOSSES OF “FIRE AND REHIRE”

UNION ACCUSES CARE BOSSES OF “FIRE AND REHIRE”

GMB: Home care upheaval is being driven through in defiance of councillors  by Bill Heaney Social care bosses in Dumbarton are driving ahead with plans

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GULF WAR: UAE restricts airspace after Iranian missile and drone attacks

GULF WAR: UAE restricts airspace after Iranian missile and drone attacks

Tensions rise in the Middle East over shipping passing through the Strait of Hormuz U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth looks on as Chairman of

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Fresh energy, ambition, and a determination to ensure our area gets the attention it merits

Fresh energy, ambition, and a determination to ensure our area gets the attention it merits

Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton I’m incredibly honoured to be the SNP candidate for the Dumbarton Constituency. Since 2022, I’ve had the privilege of serving

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