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Day: March 13, 2025

THEY’RE HAVING A LAUGH: PLEASE DON’T BIN YOUR FLOWERS ANYMORE …

March 13, 2025 heaneymedia

NOTEBOOK by BILL HEANEY Bring flowers of the rarest Bring blossoms the fairest From garden, and woodland And hillside and Vale … But, for God’s

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Council partners with Ancestry to digitise 11 million historical records

March 13, 2025 heaneymedia

Published 12 March 2025 By Lucy Ashton A range of historical records about West Dunbartonshire and its residents dating back to the 17th century have

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Nicola Sturgeon has banked a fortune from her career in politics

March 13, 2025 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton Irascible Nicola Sturgeon has announced she is quitting the Holyrood parliament as she enters her final year as an MSP. It is

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West of Scotland celebrates more than 5000 kidney transplants: Lockie’s story

March 13, 2025 heaneymedia

By Lucy Ashton Lockie Learmonth was just 18 months old when he received a kidney from his dad, Calum Learmonth, at the Royal Hospital for

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Labour claims workers will benefit from “game changing” employment rights

March 13, 2025 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney  Hundreds of thousands of Scots struggling with insecure work and low pay are set to benefit from landmark reforms agreed in Parliament.

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Recent Posts

  • Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18
  • ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP
  • Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond
  • BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal
  • LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS
  • Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

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Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc Dumbarton. One week to go until our big closing #litterpick of this year’s #BigClydeCleanUp at Havoc. Don’t be shy, come

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ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP Great to have the support of Brendan O’Hara MP. Together, we’re standing up for our communities, protecting

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Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond

Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond

Boat began to sink between Inchmurrin Island and the Boturrich shoreline on Sunday A helicopter helped rescue three people who were trapped on a boat

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BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

Biography Having a Reputation A new biography of James Bryce, one-time Chief Secretary of Ireland and supporter of Irish Home Rule, reveals the astonishingly varied

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LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

by Lucy Ashton Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today set out how his party will legislate to make schools smartphone-free environments, as part

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Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

by Bill Heaney Russell Findlay has today outlined his party’s plans to tackle Scotland’s pothole epidemic, which he says is “a monument to two decades

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Southport catastrophe which claimed the lives of three children and left 10 more injured, could have been – and should have been – prevented

Southport catastrophe which claimed the lives of three children and left 10 more injured, could have been – and should have been – prevented

  Southport killer’s parents ‘bear considerable blame’ for ‘preventable’ attack, damning report finds Report by Amy-Clare Martin, Crime correspondent, and Tara Cobham in The Independent Monday

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Pope Leo vows to speak strongly against war …

Pope Leo vows to speak strongly against war …

During the flight to Algeria, Pope Leo XIV responds to questions regarding US President Donald Trump’s recent statements, saying he is “not a politician” and

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