Mark Field, the Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific, agreed to meet the family of Dumbarton man Jagtar Singh Johal, who is detained in prison without charge in the Punjab and is reported to have been tortured. However, with the election looming on December 12, the matter will have to rest until the outcome is known.
President Donald Trump seriously misused the power of his office for personal political gain by seeking foreign intervention in the American election process and obstructed Congress by stonewalling efforts to investigate, a House report released Tuesday concluded in findings that form the basis for possible impeachment.
Should political parties be permitted to produce election material that resembles a local newspaper? That question has been thrown to the fore in this current general election after it has emerged that all three of the main parties attempting to win the December 12 poll have been producing partisan free-sheets that appear to ape or at least resemble existing local publications. Has the time now come, the newspaper industry is asking, for such practices to be banned completely, especially when an election is underway?
Residents in West Dunbartonshire are being encouraged to look out for each other and seek help during Suicide Prevention Week.
Police investigating a number of incendiary devices sent via the post to locations in London and Glasgow earlier this year are appealing for anyone who may have information about the origins of the devices, or who handled them, to come forward and help them with their inquiries.
This was physiotherapist Theresa McIntyre after finishing a half marathon in lovely Stornoway on Sunday. Theresa took advantage of the bank holiday weekend to head off to the Hebrides and raise some money for one of her favourite charities, Alzheimer Scotland, which looks after people with dementia.
