January 24, 2025 – THE DEMOCRAT

SQUANDERMANIA: SNP NATIONAL CARE PLAN SCRAPPED AFTER £30 MILLION AND FOUR YEARS WASTED

January 24, 2025 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney Scottish Labour and the Tories were at one for once when their health spokespersons, Jackie Baillie, the MSP for Dumbarton, and Dr

Storm Eowyn: ERSKINE BRIDGE AND RENTON ROAD CLOSED AS WARNINGS GO OUT ACROSS WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE

January 24, 2025 heaneymedia

Democrat reporter A tornado warning has been issued ahead of the arrival of Storm Eowyn set to batter the Clyde and Argyllshire coasts with 100mph

NOTEBOOK by BILL HEANEY: Sixty years on from the deadly storm which battered West Dunbartonshire

January 24, 2025 heaneymedia

IT’S NEARLY midnight on Thursday, January 24, 2025. Sixty years ago this month, West Dunbartonshire was reeling from the aftermath of ‘Scotland’s deadliest storm’ which

GARVACHY ROAD: Appeal court reserves judgement over Drumcree parade dispute

By Julian O’Neill, BBC Crime and Justice correspondent, and Mark Simpson, Community correspondent October 5, 2026 The Court of Appeal has reserved judgement in a bid by Garvaghy

One in five children in poverty: Councils require a big shake-up, says charity

5 October 2026 by JAMES COOK, BBC SCOTLAND EDITOR Scotland is on course to miss by a wide margin legally binding targets to cut child

HOUSING CRISIS: CABINET SECRETARY TELLS TORY MSP IT’S NOT WORTH TALKING ABOUT

Conservative Housing spokesperson Liam Kerr; Cabinet Secretary Shirley Ann Somerville and SNP MSP Paul McLennan. by BILL HEANEY There is a special place in my

SCOTTISH TORY LEADER RUSSELL FINDLAY’S SPEECH TO CONFERENCE

Conference speech by Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay Left to right: Russell Findlay, Andy Burnham, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage. The SNP came to power

JUSTICE: Thin blue line becoming thinner and Scottish prisons are bursting at the seams

by BILL HEANEY They used to be known as vigilantes, but in these turbulent times we are now dealing with the Scottish Government, which would

GARVAGHY ROAD: It seems the dead are easily forgotten

by Neil Mackay in the Herald “It seems the dead are easily forgotten. Men like Michael McGoldrick, Robert Hamill and Frank O’Reilly. Women like Rosemary

SWINNEY URGED TO COMMIT TO TALKS ON COUNCIL TAX

by BILL HEANEY John Swinney has been told he must ensure cross-party talks on council tax reform take place “as soon as possible”. The First

Royal Navy’s new attack submarine arrives at Faslane on the Gareloch

HMS Agamemnon arrived on the River Clyde after departing Barrow 4 October 2026 by LUCY ASHTON The Royal Navy’s newest Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine has arrived

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