Christmas decoration making and Letters to Santa at the Pavilion Café Saturday 14 December ( 13:00 – 15:00 ) Levengrove Park , Dumbarton, G82 4AZ
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STORMY WEATHER CAUSES CHAOS ON ROADS AND RAILWAYS
It’s wet and windy out there and unsafe for both motorists and pedestrians on the A82 Loch Lomondside road.
BBC Scotland are reporting that all train services have been cancelled between Dalmuir and Helensburgh after high winds drove waves over the sea wall at Craigendoran causing floods and making the railway line impassable.
BOOKS: WAVES ON THE SHORE REVIEW
When the island was inhabited, it didn’t have a church or public house and then the school closed. There was no electricity until 2003 to serve the population, which the census recorded was at one time as high as 128.
Some of the islanders who left return from time to time to attend to farming chores, and several of their houses have been purchased as holiday homes by people from Ireland and other European countries. The author, Bernadette Conroy, who quit once but returned later to her post as Inishturk shed the last members of its indigenous population, deserves great praise for her work and for the skilful way she has drawn together the fascinating material for this new book. The Clifden Festival’s Artistic Director, Dr Brendan Flynn, is to be congratulated for having the commendable good sense to promote this book.
• Waves on the Shore is available from The Clifden Bookshop, other good bookshops such as Kenny’s Bookshop and Charlie O’Beirne’s in Galway, and on-line from the usual outlets.
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FERRET INVESTIGATION ON RAPE CRIMES
Nearly 10,000 calls to a helpline for rape victims went unanswered last year due to a lack of resources, according to Rape Crisis Scotland. A new report by the charity, which runs the helpline, also says that 1,150 people seeking help had attempted to take their own lives after a sexual attack. Such was the demand for help that rape crisis centres struggled to cope, with some even forced to close their waiting lists at times.
WILDLIFE SUFFER FROM SNP DECADE OF AUSTERITY
Scottish Government funding for major environment bodies has been slashed by 40 per cent over the last decade putting nature and the climate at risk, according to a new expert analysis, according to The Ferret investigative bureau. Scottish Environment Link, a coalition of more than 35 wildlife, countryside and campaign groups, estimates that almost £100 million has been cut from the budgets of public agencies in Scotland between 2010-11 and 2019-20. Amongst those who’ve been hit are Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), Scotland’s Rural College, the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh and environmental research institutes.
HELENSBURGH SCOUTS GET SNAP SHOT OF LIFE AND WORK
The Helensburgh Scout group will all be taking pictures throughout the year to put together a charity calendar. After giving a brief on life as a photographer in the Royal Navy, Stevie gave some practical lessons to the young Scouts. This involved showing them some tips and tricks using their camera phones and getting them to carry out some tasks together.