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  DURING the month of May 2016, 94.5% of patients were seen and subsequently admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours from Scotland’s A&E departments. This is one percentage point higher than May 2015 and the best performance during the month of May since 2013. Also published today are performance figures for the week ending […]

  A Summer warning has been issued by Police Scotland to motorists because of the increase in people out walking, cycling and on horseback. Police Scotland Roads Policing Inspector Campbell Moffat said he wanted to remind motorists across the region that the start of the school summer holidays is a time to remember that there […]

    SFRS officers joined paramedics, A&E nurses, traffic police officers and prosecutors in delivering a hard-hitting message to prevent tragedies More than 800 youngsters from schools across the west of the region were given a vivid picture of the carnage that follows serious collisions. Emergency responders left no-one in any doubt of the horrors they […]

  Dumfries and Galloway Council is planning to continue spending around £20,000 a year on the gull problem in Dumfries. The presence of gulls in Dumfries has been an issue for residents and visitors for a number of years and visitors and locals are often left frustrated by the mess and chaos they cause in the […]

  On Monday 13th June, local MP Richard Arkless questioned James Brockenshire, Minister of State for Immigration, about the security provision at the port of Cairnryan, Stranraer. Mr Arkless who has been campaigning for stronger measures against puppy smuggling since his election, asked if the Secretary of State would re-examine the coalition Governments decision to remove […]

SNP MSP for the South of Scotland Emma Harper has welcomed the decision by NHS Dumfries and Galloway to review cancer treatment pathways for patients in the west of the region. At present, cancer patients in the Stewartry and Wigtownshire area are being referred to Edinburgh for diagnosis and treatment. This is despite the fact […]

  In advance of Global MND Awareness Day on 21st June South Scotland MSP Colin Smyth is asking his constituents to help Cure MND. Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is a rapidly progressing terminal neurological condition which affects the signals from your brain reaching muscles, causing muscle weakness and wasting. It can affect the ability to […]

  LIFEBOATMEN have hit out after four men were rescued from Luce Bay on the Galloway Coast of South West Scotland. For the four men had no lifejackets and were in the water for more than an hour before being rescued by the Stranraer Inshore lifeboat early this morning (SUNDAY). The men had to tread […]

Joan McAlpine has nominated local wheelchair champion Shelby Watson as her Local Hero.Last month, all 129 MSPs were invited to nominate a constituent who makes a positive difference to the lives of others – often with little recognition – as their Local Hero. Joan chose Shelby as she has long stood out as an ‘exceptional young woman’ […]

  APPLICATIONS are now open for a new £2 million fund giving communities the opportunity to vote on how money is spent in their area. The £2 million Community Choices Fund will be targeted at work in deprived areas, and for the first time community groups as well as all public authorities, including local authorities, […]