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Local politicians; Richard Arkless MP, Emma Harper MSP & Joan McAlpine MSP, met with employees of Minerva People, facing redundancy following the announcement that administrators had been called into the firm.   Minerva People, a Dumfries based training and recruitment specialist, revealed it had been experiencing financial problems for some time following cuts to its […]

DUMFRIESSHIRE MSP Oliver Mundell says the SNP Government are failing his constituent’s health as a damning report shows only 69 per cent of people in Dumfries and Galloway are in good health. That is in stark difference to those in Grampian where 79 per cent of people have reported to be in good health leading […]

  Building Craftsmen Dumfries sponsored Solway Sharks recorded their third win from three games to start the season last Saturday, but coach Martin Grubb said his side can still play better. Sharks scored a 4-1 win over Sutton Sting at the Ice Bowl but it was a stuttering performance which didn’t show the fluency of […]

Dumfries and Galloway Blood Bikes recently won the Scottish region vote for the  Britain has Spirit award , the final vote is now open for the  £25000 first prize, that would make a major difference to the service they could provide and enable them to do more in our region . Dumfries and Galloway Blood […]

Councillors will be asked to approve plans to take forward flood protection schemes for some of the most vulnerable towns when it meets on next week. Councillors will be asked to approve the continued development of flood protection schemes for Whitesands, Langholm and Newton Stewart with  Scottish Government Capital funding of £1.536m allocated for this work. […]

Two wins at the Ice Bowl – 8-1 over North Ayrshire Wild and 6-1 over Paisley Pirates – gave Martin Grubb’s new look squad the chance to blow the cobwebs away after a long summer and put their training camp routines into game action. Billingham Stars provide the opposition this coming Saturday (7pm face off) […]

Twenty-one projects, including one in Dumfries and Galloway, will benefit from over £900,000 through a new fund established by the Scottish Government to tackle food poverty The first wave of the Fair Food Transformation Fund will help initiatives across the country that are seeking to reduce reliance on emergency food aid, by establishing more sustainable […]

A ward at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary has been closed by an outbreak of sickness and diarrhoea. NHS Dumfries and Galloway has today taken the precautionary measure to temporarily restrict visitors to Ward 10 at the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, due to patients experiencing symptoms of nausea and diarrhoea clinically consistent with Norovirus. The […]

STAFFING has increased in Scotland’s NHS in the last year, figures published today show. The figures, released by ISD Scotland, show that under this Government the NHS Scotland workforce, excluding GPs and dentists, has increased by almost 9%, with over 11,000 more whole time equivalent (WTE) staff. There are now 161,329 people employed by the […]

Members  of the Council’s Economy, Environment and Infrastructure committee will hear how successful the council’s street lighting replacement scheme is. The report will be presented to councillors at the meeting on 13 September and will also state that the scheme will be achieved one year ahead of schedule. A report from the Scottish Futures Trust […]