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Day: November 5, 2025

Hospital encourages children and young people to share their experience

November 5, 2025 heaneymedia

by Lucy Ashton The Royal Hospital for Children is sending a clear message to children and young people: your voice matters. Eager to hear more

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LABOUR CALLS OUT “MISSED OPPORTUNITY” ON LAND REFORM

November 5, 2025 heaneymedia

by Bill Heaney Scottish Labour has labelled the SNP’s Land Reform Bill a “missed opportunity” to deliver transformative change to Scotland’s deeply unequal land ownership

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Emergency services braced for Bonfire Night disorder … but hope peace will prevail in West Dunbartonshire

November 5, 2025 heaneymedia

Updated 5 November 2025 06:08 GMT The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) has warned it will take a “zero-tolerance” approach to disorder when responding

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BINS SHAMBLES: Scottish Landfill Ban exemption to apply until 2028

November 5, 2025 heaneymedia

by Bill Heaney The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has announced that it will only enforce the Scottish landfill ban from 1 January 2028, as

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LOCAL COMMUNITIES WILL BENEFIT FROM DEFENCE GROWTH DEAL, CLAIMS MSP BAILLIE

November 5, 2025 heaneymedia

by Bill Heaney Dumbarton’s Labour  MSP has welcomed defence spending which will benefit local communities.  Working families across the country are set to benefit from

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MILESTONE FOR FIRE SAFETY CAMPAIGN AFTER CAMERON HOUSE TRAGEDY

November 5, 2025 heaneymedia

Dumbarton MSP Jackie Baillie and Simon Midgley and partner Richard Dyson, who may have survived if such systems had been in place. by Democrat reporter

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  • ‘It might be time to wrap it up’ – O’Neill ponders Celtic future after defeat
  • Is Scotland’s whisky industry on the rocks?
  • Scotland’s National Book Awards – Fiction Book of the Year
  • Council ban is a threat to everyone who believes in one of the core foundation principles of a democracy- their right to know what their government [at every level] is doing.
  • The President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly, visits the National Library of Scotland and GAA
  • Man charged after ‘attack on police and medical staff’ at Celtic Park during during derby at Parkhead

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‘It might be time to wrap it up’ – O’Neill ponders Celtic future after defeat

‘It might be time to wrap it up’ – O’Neill ponders Celtic future after defeat

by Kheredine Idessane BBC Sport Scotland at Celtic Park He delivered a double few thought possible last season when the Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup

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Is Scotland’s whisky industry on the rocks?

Is Scotland’s whisky industry on the rocks?

Job cuts, falling sales and growing competition have put pressure on the country’s most famous export Scotch whisky remains one of Scotland’s most important exports,

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Scotland’s National Book Awards – Fiction Book of the Year

Scotland’s National Book Awards – Fiction Book of the Year

Luath Press CAT WUMMAN by Gerda Stevenson has been longlisted for the 2026 Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards – Fiction Book of the Year. This

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Council ban is a threat to everyone who believes in one of the core foundation principles of a democracy- their right to know what their government [at every level] is doing.

Council ban is a threat to everyone who believes in one of the core foundation principles of a democracy- their right to know what their government [at every level] is doing.

National Press Club One can only hope that West Dunbartonshire Council and its Communications Officer Amanda Graham have been paying attention to internet postings like

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The President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly, visits the National Library of Scotland and GAA

The President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly, visits the National Library of Scotland and GAA

National Library of Scotland and GAA Ba phribhléid dúinn fáilte a chur roimh Uachtarán na hÉireann, Catherine Connolly, chuig Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hAlban inniu. It

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Man charged after ‘attack on police and medical staff’ at Celtic Park during during derby at Parkhead

Man charged after ‘attack on police and medical staff’ at Celtic Park during during derby at Parkhead

by Democrat reporter A man has been arrested and charged after an alleged attack on medical staff and police at the Celtic V Rangers match

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

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

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

‘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

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