A study by cardiologists published on Wednesday found that e-cigarettes damage the brain, heart, blood vessels and lungs. The study, published in the European Heart Journal, examines how e-cigarettes can cause damage to the body through toxic chemicals produced in the vaping process, which may also be present at lower concentrations in vaping liquid.
Category: West Dunbartonshire
BABCOCK WOMEN PAID LESS THAN MEN AT FASLANE
The gap between what women and men are paid widened in favour of men at over 170 organisations in Scotland last year, including prominent companies such as Ineos, Babcock, Farmfoods and Brewdog. An investigation by The Ferret has uncovered a worsening gender pay gap at more than a third of groups reporting figures to the UK government, dominated by energy, manufacturing and distribution firms. These include Babcock, which has a major presence at the Clyde Naval Base at Coulport and Faslane on the Gareloch
POLICE PROBE ANOTHER CHILD’S DEATH DEATH IN HOSPITAL
A Crown Office spokesman said: “The Procurator Fiscal has received a report in connection with the death of a three-year-old boy at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on 9 August 2017. The investigation into the death, under the direction of Scottish Fatalities Investigation Unit (SFIU), is ongoing and the family will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.”
YOU’LL LOVE OUR HOME BAKES
You’ll Love Our Home Bakes – Soooo after 5 years of just being a wee kitchen where I baked cakes for delivery or collection I am now branching out and becoming You’ll love our home bakes & coffee shop. Moving just up the road to Glasgow Road and to Big Sparra Coffee Shop hopefully opening middle of December I am soooo excited as this has always been the dream & i can’t wait to have my cakes (and other products) available for sit in or take away every day instead of having to disappoint people when they haven’t ordered them in advance! Would like to wish Rab & Don at the Big Sparra all the best with their new venture
JOHN BROWN, ASTRONOMER ROYAL FOR SCOTLAND
Former Dumbarton town librarian Arthur Jones has informed The Democrat that his close friend of 55 years, John Brown, died suddenly in the very early hours of Saturday morning. He was 72.
WILL SHE OR WON’T SHE LET BORIS BACK IN?
This confirms the lunacy of SNP identity politics. They’d rather enable a Tory Government so they can ‘stand up’ to it; than enable and work with a Labour one that would demonstratively govern in the beneficial interest of the many and not the few in the UK. Gerard Keegan