Category: Dumbarton
LIBERALS ATTACK SNP RECORD OF GOVERNMENT
This Christmas, the SNP deserve a lump of coal for the way they’ve mishandled these services. Our teachers, nurses and police officers are working hard day in day out but they don’t get the support they deserve from an SNP government which has independence on the brain.
BLOW TO SNP HOPES FOR FRESH REFERENDUM
Support for independence is waning in Scotland and swinging behind the Union despite the’s election push, an exclusive poll for The Times newspaper has revealed.
CHURCH PURSUES PLANNING PERMISSION FOR £450,000 ‘CHILDREN’S HOME’
Despite bitter opposition from residents, CrossReach, the operating name of the Social Care Council of the Church of Scotland, have lodged a new application for planning permission to use a luxury £450,000 house in Kirktonhill as a children’s home.
COUPLE OF DAYS OFF
I will be in Vale of Leven Hospital today for a procedure involving my eyes. No, the Health Board have not asked that they be taken out in order that The Democrat does not see what is going on there and at the QE2 Hospital and Children’s Hospital anymore. I expect to have the weekend off. I haven’t gone away you know. Bill Heaney, Editor
POLICE WITH DRINK PROBLEMS AND MENTAL ILLNESS
Independent researchers found nearly three-quarters of cops went to work while “physically unwell” in the past six months – and over a third while “mentally unwell”. And the study – due to be published in full in the coming weeks – suggested one in ten of Scotland’s 17,000 officers drink alcohol or take prescription drugs “as a coping mechanism”.