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Severe gales are continuing to hit our region and current conditions are expected to continue into this evening. Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary is still advising people not to travel and a severe weather warning will be in place until 9pm on Thursday 8th December. Chief Constable Patrick Shearer commended the response from the public so […]

Police are making enquiries into the theft f a substantial amount of money from an elderly lady at a house in Eastriggs on Tuesday 6 December 2011. At around 1400 or thereabouts the 77 year old lady answered the door at her home in Pretoria Road to the following described man who said that she […]

All schools across Dumfries and Galloway will not be opening today (8th December) due to the severe weather forecasted. Severe gales are expected to hit Dumfries and Galloway around 10am on Thursday 8 December. Gusts of up to 90mph are expected and a severe weather warning will be in place until 6am on Friday 9 […]

Police report a crash has just happened on the A75 just west of Newton Stewart at Barskeoch. A lorry and a 4 x 4 are involved and police report that the road is very dangerous in that area because of ice which has formed on falling sleet and snow. Police are in attendance and it […]

Police in Dumfries and Galloway report that the icy roads this morning caused traffic disruption on a number of the region’s roads. A number of crashes across the region highlight again the need to take extra care on the roads during winter. The latest met Office forecast indicates that rain, snow and sleet moving across […]

Police are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a 17 year old girl who went missing on Thursday 1 December 2011. Emma McDougall went missing from the Johnstonebridge area where she was staying and the last positive sighting of her in the Dumfries and Galloway area was of her getting a train from Dumfries […]

Police in Dumfries and Galloway are advising drivers to exercise extra caution on the regions roads over the next 24 hours or so. The region has seen a combination of snowfall and ice on roads since late Sunday evening and as a consequence road conditions have proved to be difficult. A number of minor road […]

Police report that many roads across the region are now affected by Ice and Snow motorists are asked to carefully consider whether their journey is really necessary. Roads around the Stranraer area appear to be particularly bad.  

Here’s the latest on yesterday’s river Nith flooding in Dumfries: The Whitesands and Irish Street have re-opened. Bus services to and from the Whitesands have resumed. In an effort to assist businesses, only the riverside car park will remain closed – access has been given to the shop side car park. Dumfries and Galloway Fire […]