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Day: June 28, 2025

Royal Scottish Forestry Society’s new plans for Cashel – unworkable and devoid of vision

June 28, 2025 heaneymedia

June 27, 2025 Nick Kempe’s Parkswatch column Description of property from Goldcrest Sale brochure On 27th May Goldcrest Land and Forestry Group misleadingly announced a new property

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CHARITY, COURAGE AND KISSES ON YET ANOTHER SATURDAY AT LEVENGROVE

June 28, 2025 heaneymedia
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Plastic Free Helensburgh: Strange things on the shore

June 28, 2025 heaneymedia

Plastic Free Helensburgh – Community A happy gathering of Helensburgh volunteers this weekend, getting blown around by the wind but at least the rain stayed

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UPON THIS ROCK: Christian Faith in this district has roots which go back 1700 years

June 28, 2025 heaneymedia

By Billy Scobie As the oldest recorded fortified site in Britain, it should be remembered that, although predominantly military, Dumbarton Rock has from very early

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  • INVESTIGATION: Argyll soldiers in Kenya babies scandal
  • Common-sense Tory rural manifesto will end two decades of SNP neglect
  • REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE
  • ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN
  • Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18
  • ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

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INVESTIGATION: Argyll soldiers in Kenya babies scandal

INVESTIGATION: Argyll soldiers in Kenya babies scandal

by Josephine Casserly, Ivana Davidovic, BBC News, and Bill Heaney “Edward”, a nine-year-old Kenyan boy, has always been aware that his father worked for the British

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Common-sense Tory rural manifesto will end two decades of SNP neglect

Common-sense Tory rural manifesto will end two decades of SNP neglect

Russell Findlay on the election campaign trail amongst farmers. by Bill Heaney The Scottish Conservatives will today (Wednesday) publish a dedicated rural manifesto designed to

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REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

by Bill Heaney UK Reform leader Malcolm Offord today criticised increases to the minimum wage and improvements to workers’ rights across the UK. Scottish Labour

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ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN

ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN
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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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