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Day: February 24, 2025

PROPOSALS TO MAKE BUDGET CUTS ON BOWLING CLUBS SHOULD BE DITCHED NOW

February 24, 2025 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney Just when bowls is becoming almost respectable. And when the old Billy and Dan culture has mostly been ditched by the players.

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American anti-abortion group will not break buffer zones, pledge

February 24, 2025 heaneymedia

 US anti-abortion group 40 Days For Life have previously gathered outside the clinic. Published 24 February 2025 By Bill Heaney A US anti-abortion group planning

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IBROX CRISIS: Barry Ferguson takes interim charge of Rangers

February 24, 2025 heaneymedia

Barry Ferguson, Neil McCann and Billy Dodds helped Rangers win the League Cup in 2002 have been recruited to the Ibrox management squad. BBC Scotland

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Dumbarton District Women’s Aid face council cuts in cash support

February 24, 2025 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney Police Scotland statistics show that incidents of domestic abuse within West Dunbartonshire are well above the Scottish average and the second highest

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DEATH OF EVAN WILLIAMS, DUMBARTON MAN WHO PLAYED AT HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE GAME

February 24, 2025 heaneymedia

February 21, 2025 Dumbarton man Evan Williams, who has died aged 81, was no ordinary goalkeeper. Evan was man of the match in the 1970

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  • CANDLELIGHT CONCERT: Candlelight Christmas Eve concert in Luss Parish Church, Loch Lomond
  • LABOUR PARTY: Guarantee £350 energy bill support for the poorest Scots
  • First Minister asked to explain Sikh festival post during Remembrance silence
  • Police Scotland’s Retail Crime Taskforce to take part in the national Safer Business Action Week
  • POETRY: ‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice
  • FASLANE NAVAL BASE COMMANDER JOINS THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO REMEMBER THE FALLEN

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CANDLELIGHT CONCERT: Candlelight Christmas Eve concert in Luss Parish Church, Loch Lomond

CANDLELIGHT CONCERT: Candlelight Christmas Eve concert in Luss Parish Church, Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond Arms A candlelight c 7 pm – 9 pm. The Tessera Quartet plays Christmas classics and music from The Holiday and Love Actually.

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LABOUR PARTY: Guarantee £350 energy bill support for the poorest Scots

LABOUR PARTY: Guarantee £350 energy bill support for the poorest Scots

by BILL HEANEY Hundreds of thousands of the poorest Scots would get extra support for energy bills this winter under plans published today by Scottish

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First Minister asked to explain Sikh festival post during Remembrance silence

First Minister asked to explain Sikh festival post during Remembrance silence

Harriet Cross, Conservative MP, Poppies for Remembrance Day and First Minister John Swinney. by LUCY ASHTON Shadow Scotland Secretary Harriet Cross has written to John

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Police Scotland’s Retail Crime Taskforce to take part in the national Safer Business Action Week

Police Scotland’s Retail Crime Taskforce to take part in the national Safer Business Action Week

by LUCY ASHTON Police Scotland’s Retail Crime Taskforce and a range of key partners are taking part in the national Safer Business Action Week to

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POETRY: ‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice

POETRY: ‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice

View in your browser ‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss MacNeice’s 1938 political poem In Autumn

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FASLANE NAVAL BASE COMMANDER JOINS THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO REMEMBER THE FALLEN

FASLANE NAVAL BASE COMMANDER JOINS THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO REMEMBER THE FALLEN

Monday, 9 November 2026 The Helensburgh community came together on Sunday 8 November to honour the nation’s fallen service personnel during the town’s annual Service

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RUSSELL BRAND: ‘Predator with no remorse’ jailed for 10 years for rape and sexual assaults

RUSSELL BRAND: ‘Predator with no remorse’ jailed for 10 years for rape and sexual assaults

by Amy-Clare Martin, Tom Barnes and Joe Middleton in THE INDEPENDENT  09 November 2026  Russell Brand has been jailed for more than 10 years after being convicted

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Teenager taken to hospital with eye injury as West Dunbartonshire gets off with relatively quiet Bonfire Night

Teenager taken to hospital with eye injury as West Dunbartonshire gets off with relatively quiet Bonfire Night

The burnt out police van which was set fire to on Bonfire Night by youths. 6 November 2026 by BILL HEANEY Deploying 1,700 police officers

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