Skip to content
THE DUMBARTON DEMOCRAT

THE DEMOCRAT

DUNBARTONSHIRE'S DIGITAL NEWSPAPER

  • Home
  • Latest News
    • West Dunbartonshire
    • Balloch
    • Dumbarton
    • Scotland Wide
    • Helensburgh
  • TRAVEL
  • SPORT
  • BOOK REVIEWS
  • SPECIAL FEATURES
  • CONTACT US

Day: May 11, 2026

Disruption to the disposal of sofas and soft furnishings … and Reform’s big fan boob

May 11, 2026 heaneymedia

Dumbarton Notebook by Bill Heaney Three chairs for the Council — and a couple of sofas thrown in, or more likely thrown out along with

Continue reading

Trump says Iran’s response to US proposal to end war is ‘totally unacceptable’

May 11, 2026 heaneymedia

US has proposed an end to fighting before talks on  Iran’s nuclear programme ‘I don’t like ​it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,’ US President Donald Trump wrote

Continue reading

Regional list MSPs include Dumbarton man David Smith

May 11, 2026 heaneymedia

A selection of List MSPs who will sit at Holyrood– Malcolm Offord, Reform UK;  Russell Findlay, Conservative; David Smith, Reform UK; Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour;

Continue reading

ELECTION: JACKIE BAILLIE IN SEVENTH HEAVEN AS SHE WINS DUMBARTON (UPDATED)

May 11, 2026 heaneymedia

And Marie McNair keeps the SNP happy in Clydebank … by Bill Heaney Jackie Baillie was in seventh heaven. The tears Jackie had shed a

Continue reading

News, opinion and pictures from West Dunbartonshire.

Recent Posts

  • YER HAVING A LAUGH. NO WONDER OUR COUNCIL TAX IS EXTORIONATE
  • Edinburgh Book Festival E-news: 16 October 2026 edition
  • Celtic Connections reveals 2027 festival programme
  • October progress on the roadworks at The Milton, near Dumbarton, which look nearly complete now
  • HELENSBURGH SAYS NO! Controversial supermarket plan for waterfront rejected
  • INVESTIGATION: WHY PLANNING APPLICATION FOR TRACK TO HONEYPOT FARM AT GARTOCHARN HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

Previously: THE DEMOCRAT

YER HAVING A LAUGH. NO WONDER OUR COUNCIL TAX IS EXTORIONATE

YER HAVING A LAUGH. NO WONDER OUR COUNCIL TAX IS EXTORIONATE

Nice to see someone has kept their sense of humour in the trying circumstances in which the people at the end of the phone are

Continue reading

Edinburgh Book Festival E-news: 16 October 2026 edition

Edinburgh Book Festival E-news: 16 October 2026 edition

View this email in your browser Autumn is fully upon us 🍂 October in Edinburgh: the leaves are changing colour, the rain is making reading

Continue reading

Celtic Connections reveals 2027 festival programme

Celtic Connections reveals 2027 festival programme

Musicians from over 20 countries will perform at this year’s festival by Liam O’Heanai A tribute to the Beatles, a takeover of the Kelvingrove Art

Continue reading

October progress on the roadworks at The Milton, near Dumbarton, which look nearly complete now

October progress on the roadworks at The Milton, near Dumbarton, which look nearly complete now

Pix by Pedro

Continue reading

HELENSBURGH SAYS NO! Controversial supermarket plan for waterfront rejected

HELENSBURGH SAYS NO! Controversial supermarket plan for waterfront rejected

Locals said the new supermarket would affect the town’s character and was not needed 15 October 2026 by Bill Heaney A controversial plan to site

Continue reading

INVESTIGATION: WHY PLANNING APPLICATION FOR TRACK TO HONEYPOT FARM AT GARTOCHARN HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

INVESTIGATION: WHY PLANNING APPLICATION FOR TRACK TO HONEYPOT FARM AT GARTOCHARN HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

parkswatchscotland by Nick Kempe An application for planning permission to the Loch Lomond Park Authority for a new access track to Honeypot Farm and Honeywagon

Continue reading

POPE LEO’S HEALTH LATEST: A reluctance to speculate among lung disease specialists

POPE LEO’S HEALTH LATEST: A reluctance to speculate among lung disease specialists

by BRENDAN WALSH, Editor of The Tablet religion magazine I’ve been struck by the humility of the many medics I’ve spoken to about Pope Leo’s

Continue reading

Monty’s Farm Park: MONTY CARDROSS TO MEET SANTA AT ARDARDAN

Monty’s Farm Park: MONTY CARDROSS TO MEET SANTA AT ARDARDAN

MEETING SANTA! A very special part of our Santa’s Elves Workshop is getting to meet the big man himself!  When you arrive, you’ll head into

Continue reading

May 2026
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Apr   Jun »

Facebook – Follow Us

  • Facebook

Twitter – Follow Us

  • X
Powered by WordPress.com.
Loading Comments...