March 2, 2026 – THE DEMOCRAT

Gas prices soar amid Middle East conflict; ‘limited resumption’ of flights from Dubai airports

March 2, 2026 heaneymedia

US and Israel attacks on Iran necessary to stop ‘intolerable threat’ of nuclear weapons, says President Trump Kuwait air defences mistakenly shot down three US

Sarwar rejects father’s tribute to Iran’s supreme leader

March 2, 2026 heaneymedia

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says he firmly disagrees with his father’s tribute to the late supreme leader of Iran. Mohammad Sarwar, a former Labour

New infection risk alert at Scotland’s flagship hospital …

March 2, 2026 heaneymedia

Three persons who have died at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital – Milly Main and her mother; Molly Cuddihy and Andrew Slorance with his wife

STINKING SCOTLAND: WE HOLD OUR NOSES WHILE SEWAGE BOSSES FILL THEIR BOOTS

Look now at adjoining Democrat story on sewage crisis by BILL HEANEY Scottish Liberal Democrat environment spokesperson Sanne Dijkstra-Downie MSP has today demanded that the

Scottish Water chiefs awarded £258,000 in ‘obscene’ bonuses despite price rises for customers

* See story next to this one about sewage The eye-watering figures were included in Scottish Water’s latest accounts Scottish Water chief executive Alex Plant

Daughter of man who helped save the Union in frame to play Nicola Sturgeon on TV

Sir Kenneth Calman led the commission set up by the Unionist parties to strengthen the UK in response to the rise of the SNP –

Nepal flood death toll rises to 900 as number of missing climbs

People look at damaged houses after flash floods in Nepal’s Nuwakot district by Democrat reporter The death toll following devastating floods in Nepal has surpassed

Scottish hospitals told corridor care ‘unacceptable’ in new NHS plan

The Health and Care Improving Flow Plan asks health boards to reduce corridor care. NHS boards have been told that caring for patients in corridors

Rest and Be Thankful traffic lights will be removed when no roadworks are happening

Traffic lights will be removed when no roadworks are taking place at the Rest and Be Thankful. A councillor remarked that the decision to remove

Billionaire’s superyacht leaves Firth of Clyde for Oban

by BILL HEANEY A superyacht worth around £300million departed the Firth of Clyde today after spending more than a week at James Watt Dock in

POLICE SCOTLAND: Frontline officers administer lifesaving Naloxone 1,300 times over the last five years

by BILL HEANEY On this International Overdose Awareness Day, Police Scotland is recognising the people, families and communities affected by drug overdose. Today also marks

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