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Dumfries and Galloway Council is supporting this year’s Food Safety Week (16-22 June). Do you remember the London 2012 opening ceremony and the Olympic stadium filled to bursting point with spectators? Now, try to envisage that huge crowd multiplied by three. You can do the same with Murrayfield in Edinburgh and the Millennium Stadium in […]
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) has officially opened the new home for its volunteer crew protecting rural communities on either side of the South Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway boundary. Leadhills Community Fire Station serves the small village of Leadhills in South Lanarkshire as well as nearby Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway’s Nithsdale […]
The Community and Customer Services (CCS) Committee on Tuesday 17 June is being asked to approve a new policy on No Cold Calling Zones. Members agreed at the April meeting of CCS Committee to endorse national enforcement priorities determined by Trading Standards (Scotland). Doorstep Crime was listed as one of the priorities. A No Cold […]
Dumfriesshire MSP Elaine Murray and Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown have expressed their concern that long term youth unemployment in Dumfries and Galloway is showing no improvement. This comes after the latest unemployment figures were released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The local figures has not changed from April to May […]
Everyone in Scotland will be asked to have their say on a draft Bill which will set out how an independent Scotland will be governed. The draft Scottish Independence Bill is now open for public consultation and includes details on how an independent Scotland could prepare a permanent written constitution in a fully participative process […]
Scottish Water is reminding people in Dumfries and Galloway to play it safe in or near rivers, reservoirs and lochs this summer. Latest figures from the National Water Safety Forum (NWSF) show that in 2012, 371 people drowned accidentally across the UK, of which 43 included children and young people up to the age […]
Dumfries-based artists’ group the Stove Network has challenged the town to create a ‘people’s charter’ for the future of Dumfries. The 1395 Royal Charter for the Burgh of Dumfries is read out each year as part of Guid Nychburris (Good Neighbours) Festival – this year there will be an alternative version as well. The Dumfries […]
A group of highly talented, locally-based musicians are getting together to perform a special fundraising concert for the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust at Dumfries Academy on Sunday 22nd June from 8pm – 9pm, but members of the audience for this Summer Serenade will also have a chance to look around Moat Brae house and […]
South of Scotland MSP Joan McAlpine has welcomed the announcement from Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead of a package of measures to support Scottish farming and rural communities. In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Lochhead outlined how the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will be implemented in Scotland including plans for direct farm […]
This weekend, the Commonwealth Youth Summit will take place in Dumfries. The Youth Summit will be the largest youth work event of Legacy 2014. The event, hosted by Dumfries and Galloway Council in partnership with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, will see over 240 young delegates gathering for the event which runs from 6-9 June. […]
