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If you’re wanting to join in the festivities for the final day of the Jubilee celebrations today then there are a host of events on: – On Queensberry Street today between 10AM and 4PM today King’s Coffee and Books are hosting a Jubilee Street Party – a mix of Britishness with Cucumber Sandwiches, and Scottishness […]
On 14 June 2012, World Blood Donor Day will be marked with events around the world to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank all voluntary unpaid donors for their life-saving gift of blood. The transfusion of blood and blood products helps save millions of lives every year. […]
Police are appealing for witnesses following a two vehicle fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the A713 near to Carsfad Loch/Dam, Carsphairn The roadway is still closed while a police crash investigation is carried out at the scene. Local diversions are in place. The collision occurred at around 17.50hrs and involved a Blue Renault […]
Youthbeatz organisers have just announced Alexandra Burke will be the headliner at Youthbeatz this summer The Dumfries festival is happy to announce today, the star who came to fame through X Factor 2008 and released her stunning debut “Hallelujah”, will sing to the 12,000 strong crowd at Dumfries’s premier youth festival. Find out more about […]
Over the last three months schools in the region have been creating works of art to commemorate 60 years of the Queen’s reign. You are invited to view their achievements in a free exhibition from 2 to 4 June in Kirkcudbright Town Hall. The project was started by the Lord Lieutenant of The Stewartry of […]
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary are sad to report that missing person PHILIP MOORHEAD was found dead in Eskdalemuir Forest on Friday (25th May) afternoon. Early police investigations suggest that there are no suspicious circumstances in the death. Police thank everyone who was involved in the search.
Another Pop-up gallery in Kings opens over the Jubilee weekend; 2nd & 3rd June. Following the success of ‘No-Landscapes’ pop-op gallery in the spring, the same team came up with a unique idea, to create art from skateboards. The exhibition, at Kings Coffee and Books will feature the work of 10 local artists, using a […]
The Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre is showing “Kizzy”, a BBC production based on the children’s story “The Diddakoi” written by Rumer Godden, who lived in Moniaive, Dumfriesshire from 1978 to 1998. Rumer Godden was the author of over 60 books, several of which have been made into films, including the bestselling novel “Black Narcissus”, […]
Kyla Lingley is a Canadian Soprano, who when not performing in shows, is busy raising money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer with outdoor performances in towns and cities across the UK. So far Kyla has raised over £13,000 for the charity. Kyla is performing by the fountain, on the High Street in Dumfries today until around […]
Sunlight Productions Youth Theatre Branch, STEDA Dumfries, recently rewrote and performed the classic local play, Peter Pan, rewriting it in both script and music to put on a full scale musical production in late February this year, during which time they completed a small tour of the region. Following on from the local success of […]
