LEADING music festivals, events and artists have rallied together to raise funds in support of those affected by the unprecedented Australian bushfires, currently destroying parts of the country.
Category: West Dunbartonshire
BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES FOR STORM BRENDAN
A status orange weather alert is in place for the entire country as Scotland braces itself for high winds and heavy rain as Atlantic Storm Brendan heads for the east coast.
KEEPING PUBLIC MATTERS PRIVATE
Editors call on the Prime Minister to review Westminster lobby changes It’s a long time since relations between the press, local government officials and councillors
RAE OF SUNSHINE RUNS FOR ERSKINE VETS
The ex-footballer who played for clubs both North and South of the border including Rangers, Dundee, Sunderland and Wolverhampton Wanderers, is proud to be raising money for Scotland’s Veterans and their spouses who live in Erskine’s four care homes and in cottages on the charity’s Veterans Village in Bishopton.
CALL TO BRING BACK WOLVES TO CONTROL DEER
Regulation, if effective, might correct this but returning the natural predators would probably do the job more effectively. Wolves and lynx were effective at these latitudes in the past but human activity eliminated them. Sheep farming and other livestock might be at some risk from their reintroduction, but the problem arose from man’s interference. It would be simplest to thus tackle it at source by reversing our earlier mistake.
OLD MAN RIVER BY OTTO EASTBROOK
The stolen gate on the towpath along the Leven behind the golf course. By Bill Heaney We have our own Old Man River, the River