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A video from David Slater reporting of Joanna Lumley’s visit to Dumfries on Tuesday 2nd August, to launch a campaign to raise £4m to restore Moat Brae House in Dumfries, where J M Barrie conceived the idea for Peter Pan:
Some of the world’s top cyclists will race into Dumfries when the first stage of the Tour of Britain finishes on 11 September 2011. After leaving the centre of Peebles, the first stage travels along the Tweed valley to Innerleithen. It then heads uphill, taking the race over a series of climbs to Tweedsmuir, and […]
The Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust has launched a £4million appeal with backing coming from actress Joanna Lumley. She visited Dumfries yesterday to help launch the campaign in order to turn the ruined Moat Brae into something magical. There is a lot of plans for the building, where J.M Barrie got the inspiration for his […]
Around 0210 hours on Tuesday 2 August 2011 a fire was discovered at a shed situated at a house in Main Street, Springfield. As a result of the fire the shed and contents were completely destroyed, as was a VW Passat car which was parked next to the shed. The car is valued at £8000, […]
Regarded by many as the finest group to every to come out of Thornhill and 40 years after there final gig in 1971 Tangerine Flake are back. Now known more simply as The Flake and with exactly the same line up that packed there amps away back in ’71 with Des O’Connell on Vocals , […]
Around 0210 hours this morning, a fire was discovered in a shed situated at a house in Main Street, Springfield, near Gretna. As a result of the fire the shed and contents were completely destroyed, as was a VW Passat car which was parked next to the shed. The car is valued at £8000, and […]
Dumfries & Galloway Council’s Annandale & Eskdale Sports Academy was on its travels again last week when another fully subscribed trip made a journey to Belhaven Bay, Dunbar on Scotland’s east coast. 30 children were joined by Scottish Surfing champion Josh Christopherson at the Coast2Coast Surfing school where children were taught the skills and jargon […]
Over 160,000 young people all over Scotland will receive their exam results via email, text or by post on 4 August 2011. For those who don’t get the results they had been hoping for, help is at hand in the form of a free call to the Skills Development Scotland Exam Results Helpline on 0808 […]
Police are warning of a telephone scam currently doing the rounds in the region in which the caller purports to be from the Ministry of Justice. The caller attempts to sell a product called a £200 U Cash Voucher, which when exchanged with him at a later date will be of much greater value, in […]
Police in Dumfries and Galloway want to thank festival goers who attended the annual Wickerman Festival at East Kirkcarswell, near Dundrennan at the weekend for their good behaviour. The festival, which is now in it’s tenth year provided the largest crowd yet over the three days, with some 15,000 attendees, was policed to what is […]
