May 17, 2025 – THE DEMOCRAT

Loch Lomond visitors urged to avoid camping and picnic fires

May 17, 2025 heaneymedia

Pictures by James Duncan Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority has urged visitors to avoid lighting naked flames amid an “extreme” wildfire warning from

THE FERRET: Pollution of West Highland loch under investigation

May 17, 2025 heaneymedia

THE FULL, EXCLUSIVE STORY IS ON THE FERRET WEBSITE TODAY Author: Billy Briggs An investigation is under way into a pollution incident at a West

West Dunbartonshire Leisure charity afternoon

May 17, 2025 heaneymedia

West Dunbartonshire Leisure West Dunbartonshire Leisure are planning a Charity Afternoon on Sunday 1st June in the Meadow Centre. We are aiming to raise as

Louise O’Neill: ‘The rhetoric around dating was that for women over 35, you may as well be dead’

Books The bestselling novelist’s blisteringly honest new memoir, A Bigger Life, centres on the fallout from finding herself single in her late 30s Nadine O’Regan

‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a moment of reckoning

Music Analysis ‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under pressure from US billionaire Nadia Khomami

SNP deputy leader criticises First Minister John Swinney’s plans to merge councils

by BILL HEANEY John Swinney faces opposition from his deputy over perceived plans to axe and merge some councils. The First Minister confirmed in his

DUMBARTON NOTEBOOK BY BILL HEANEY

Happy Friday to all our readers, although it hasn’t been a good week here in Dumbarton. Is it ever? Because of our domestic circumstances, I

Five further arrests as investigation into Glasgow disorder continues

18 September 2026 by BILL HEANEY Five further people have been arrested and charged this week in connection with disorder in Glasgow on Saturday, 25

Family of Jagtar Singh Johal say Scot detained in India has been granted bail

Campaigners say there is no credible evidence against Jagtar Singh Johal By Katie Hunter, BBC Scotland News 18 September 2026, The family of a Scottish

Primary pupils across West Dunbartonshire celebrate Gold School Sport Awards

Published 16 September 2026 by DEMOCRAT REPORTER Pupils at six West Dunbartonshire Schools have been awarded a sportscotland Gold School Sport Award for their commitment

Former MI6 spy takes Trump to Scottish court for £800,000 legal payout

Donald Trump was named in a hearing at Ayr Sheriff Court by Chris Clements, BBC Scotland social affairs correspondent 17 September 2026 A company founded

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