Some of you will have walked past it many times – a mound of earth surrounded by a shallow ditch, in Balloch Park just where Loch Lomond flows into the River Leven. The mound is all that’s left of the ancient Balloch Castle and the ditch was once a deep moat. From the 1200s Balloch Castle was the seat of the Earls of Lennox (later the Darnley Stewarts). Matthew, 4th Earl of Lennox, had a son – Henry Lord Darnley. Henry married Mary Queen of Scots and they had a son who became King James Sixth of Scots and First of the United Kingdom.
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HAPPY ST ANDREW’S DAY TO ALL
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HIGH RISKS OF WATER CONTAMINATION WERE REPORTED
Ms Darroch told BBC Scotland on Thursday night: “I’m shocked with the information that came out today. The fact that they’ve known since since 2015, it’s absolutely disgusting that nothing was done about it and no action was taken and the hospital was still opened. I believe Milly would still be here if action had been taken. I’ve no doubt in my mind that Milly would be sitting beside me, right now.
DISTILLERY WORKERS’ FAVOURITE BANK TO CLOSE
The branch was for many years the most popular place to bank money for the hundreds of local men and women employed in the now closed Hiram Walker distillery in Castle Street. It is straight across the road from the imposing, grey sandstone public house which was once the whisky company’s offices, which included the cashier’s department where Dumbarton man Dick Lynch was in charge. Earlier this week, the bank announced that 82 branches across the UK would close as part of a plan to make £100m of cost cuts by 2022. The Dumbarton branch will close in July next year. There is no announcement in relation to its autobank or whether that will also go when the branch closes.
ELECTION ON HOLD AFTER TERROR ATTACK
Political leaders have cancelled election campaign events scheduled for Saturday after two members of the public were killed in a knife attack on London Bridge that police have described as a terrorist event.
COLQUHOUNS WIN BATTLE WITH SCOTTISH HERITAGE
SNH apologises for killing 300 beech trees on Inchtavannach Island Scottish Natural Heritage will now pay to remove the fallen trees. Picture by Mary Jack