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Day: March 21, 2026

Nigel Farage on Clydeside: Reform will become the biggest opposition party at Holyrood

March 21, 2026 heaneymedia

Nigel Farage speaks at the Reform UK Scotland conference in Bishopton by Bill Heaney Nigel Farage was branded a threat to the Union after he

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SATURDAY: Iranian man and Romanian woman arrested at Faslane nuclear base …

March 21, 2026 heaneymedia

LATEST: SECURITY BREACH AT FASLANE Two people have been arrested after trying to enter the naval base in Scotland where Britain’s nuclear submarines are based.

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LOCAL WOMEN BEING ‘LEFT IN LIMBO’ AS FOUR-YEAR WAITS FOR HYSTERECTOMY

March 21, 2026 heaneymedia

 by Lucy Ashton Dumbarton, Helensburgh and Lomond MSP Jackie Baillie has accused the SNP of “risking women’s health” after new figures revealed waits of up

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News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

Recent Posts

  • 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
  • Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond
  • BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal
  • LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

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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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Southport catastrophe which claimed the lives of three children and left 10 more injured, could have been – and should have been – prevented

Southport catastrophe which claimed the lives of three children and left 10 more injured, could have been – and should have been – prevented

  Southport killer’s parents ‘bear considerable blame’ for ‘preventable’ attack, damning report finds Report by Amy-Clare Martin, Crime correspondent, and Tara Cobham in The Independent Monday

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