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Day: September 12, 2025

BOOKS: Bidding a fond farewell to Edinburgh Book Festival 2025

September 12, 2025 heaneymedia

And that’s a wrap! And just like that, another brilliant Festival cycle comes to an end. The tents are down, the benches tucked into storage,

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Labour MPs’ growing fury over Mandelson appointment …

September 12, 2025 heaneymedia

Labour MPs are publicly and privately expressing their anger over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK ambassador to the US and the handling

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SOCIAL CARE COSTS IN WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE SOAR BY £30 MILLION

September 12, 2025 heaneymedia

West Dunbartonshire Council has spent almost £30 million on social care overtime and agency staff since 2020 That money is part of the £400 million

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Man in his 40s arrested as part of the investigation into the Donegal filling station tragedy

September 12, 2025 heaneymedia

This is the sixth arrest since the explosion at a service station in Co Donegal village in 2022 Ten people lost their lives following an

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ALEXANDER: SCOTCH WHISKY TRADE DEAL ABOUT SCOTLAND NOT SWINNEY

September 12, 2025 heaneymedia

By Bill Heaney Scottish Secretary, Douglas Alexander, has called on John Swinney to “put aside his personal point scoring” and work together with the UK

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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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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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