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Day: March 10, 2025

Bowel screening uptake boosted with simple change to invitation letter

March 10, 2025 heaneymedia

March 12 2025 By Elizabeth McMeekin Researchers found that adding a deadline to bowel screening invitation letters boosted test returns, with the largest effect for

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Dumbarton’s Lesley Beck is one of the finest female skiers Britain has ever produced

March 10, 2025 heaneymedia

West Dunbartonshire Arts and Heritage Lesley Beck, International Women’s Day. In a departure from our normal format we’re going to shine a light on an

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Thrombectomy suite celebrates first year of changing lives for stroke patients

March 10, 2025 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton More than 40 people across the West of Scotland are leading independent lives after suffering a stroke, thanks to the new thrombectomy

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LESS ARROGANCE AND MORE HUMILITY WOULD BE MORE BENEFICIAL THAN NOT EATING MEAT DURING LENT

March 10, 2025 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney People who pledge to abstain from meat and alcohol and sweets and chocolate for the six weeks of Lent have been urged

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Swinney must lay down the law to public sector to protect women-only spaces

March 10, 2025 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney First Minister John Swinney must lay down the law to public bodies to safeguard women’s single-sex spaces, parliament will be told this

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MONTHS-LONG WAIT FOR CERVICAL CANCER CHECKS ‘GIVING WOMEN SLEEPLESS NIGHTS’ 

March 10, 2025 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton The months-long wait for cervical cancer checks is “giving women sleepless nights”, Scottish Labour has warned, after it emerged some are waiting more

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  • Three per cent of the population in West Dunbartonshire have been diagnosed with stroke and TIA
  • Finance Secretary Jenny Gilruth to work with councils on £100 energy payment rollout
  • Two men convicted after firearms recovered
  • Mary’s Meals invite you once again to our fabulous Glasgow Christmas Market!
  • ENTERTAINMENT: ‘In Ireland, a funeral seems like a wedding. In Italy a wedding seems like a funeral,’
  • MSPS VOTE FOR INTRODUCTION OF AUTISM (LDAN) BILL

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Three per cent of the population in West Dunbartonshire have been diagnosed with stroke and TIA

Three per cent of the population in West Dunbartonshire have been diagnosed with stroke and TIA

Better service needed for stroke patients – left to right, Marie McNair, Amy Callaghan and Health Secretary Angela Constance. by BILL HEANEY Local people will

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Finance Secretary Jenny Gilruth to work with councils on £100 energy payment rollout

Finance Secretary Jenny Gilruth to work with councils on £100 energy payment rollout

ABOVE: Finance Secretary Jenny Gilruth is due to announce the Scottish Budget next month by Claire Thomson, BBC Scotland News Scottish ministers say they will

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Two men convicted after firearms recovered

Two men convicted after firearms recovered

They discarded guns – Reece Brown and Daniel Curran by BILL HEANEY Two men have been convicted after firearms were recovered in Glasgow. Reece Brown, 25, and

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Mary’s Meals invite you once again to our fabulous Glasgow Christmas Market!

Mary’s Meals invite you once again to our fabulous Glasgow Christmas Market!

  Dear readers of The Dumbarton Democrat, What’s your favourite thing about this time of year? For many of us it’s the approach of Christmas,

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ENTERTAINMENT: ‘In Ireland, a funeral seems like a wedding. In Italy a wedding seems like a funeral,’

ENTERTAINMENT: ‘In Ireland, a funeral seems like a wedding. In Italy a wedding seems like a funeral,’

A Wild Inhabitation: Antoni O’Breskey and Consuelo Nerea Breschi To mark his 50th year in music, Antoni O’Breskey has made the album A Wild Inhabitation

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MSPS VOTE FOR INTRODUCTION OF AUTISM (LDAN) BILL

MSPS VOTE FOR INTRODUCTION OF AUTISM (LDAN) BILL

by BILL HEANEY MSPs have voted for the Scottish Government to introduce a Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence (LDAN) Bill to the Scottish Parliament. The

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Everyone has the right to attend a sporting event without having to witness this disgraceful and shameful behaviour, Sheriff

Everyone has the right to attend a sporting event without having to witness this disgraceful and shameful behaviour, Sheriff

Ben Stanex, 24, Scott Dragsness, 55, and Andrew Graham, 21, all from Northern Ireland, have been banned from every football ground in the UK for

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‘My legs buckled when I opened my exam results during Covid,’ says student

‘My legs buckled when I opened my exam results during Covid,’ says student

Erin Bleakley led a wave of protest after having her exam results downgraded By Katy McCloskey, Senior producer, education, BBC Scotland News A student whose

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