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Day: September 22, 2025

HELENSBURGH TOYOTA WILL BE AT DUMBARTON ROCKS FESTIVAL

September 22, 2025 heaneymedia

Helensburgh Toyota are delighted to announce they have joined the line up for the upcoming Dumbarton Rocks Festival.The Team from Helensburgh Toyota will be on

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Eyad Baba’s disturbing images for AFP of Palestinians fleeing Gaza City

September 22, 2025 heaneymedia

Former Dumbarton-based journalist Eric Wishart sent us these recent AFP pictures of the Exodus from Gaza.

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New Near Me Hub Launches in Library …

September 22, 2025 heaneymedia

No details for who is in the picture and the Council won’t speak to us to tell us — nor you, of course. By Lucy

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Scotland is ready for Reform, writes John MacLeod

September 22, 2025 heaneymedia

The conditions are right for Nigel Farage and friends to shake up Scottish politics By John MacLeod 21 September, 2025 Reform is on a Scottish roll.

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  • Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond
  • BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

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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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