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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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Recent Posts

  • GARVACHY ROAD: Appeal court reserves judgement over Drumcree parade dispute
  • One in five children in poverty: Councils require a big shake-up, says charity
  • HOUSING CRISIS: CABINET SECRETARY TELLS TORY MSP IT’S NOT WORTH TALKING ABOUT
  • SCOTTISH TORY LEADER RUSSELL FINDLAY’S SPEECH TO CONFERENCE
  • JUSTICE: Thin blue line becoming thinner and Scottish prisons are bursting at the seams
  • GARVAGHY ROAD: It seems the dead are easily forgotten

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GARVACHY ROAD: Appeal court reserves judgement over Drumcree parade dispute

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

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

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

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

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

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SCOTTISH TORY LEADER RUSSELL FINDLAY’S SPEECH TO CONFERENCE

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

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

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

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GARVAGHY ROAD: It seems the dead are easily forgotten

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

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SWINNEY URGED TO COMMIT TO TALKS ON COUNCIL TAX

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

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

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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