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Since it started in 2001, the Ewart Library staff tuck shop has bought ten goats for a Rwandan village, three bicycles for midwives in Ethiopia, a dowry of two goats for an African orphan, immunisation of two third world children against the more common childhood diseases and four operations to restore the sight of blind […]

On 2 February, the Sheriff at Dumfries ordered a man to carry out 160 hours of Community Service following an investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Benefit Fraud Team. David McEwan, aged 49, of Johnstonebank Cottages, Ecclefechan admitted that he obtained benefit which he was not entitled to, by failing to disclose that he and […]

Nith Place, in Dumfries, was surrounded by the emergency services last night when part of the roof of the flats in St Michael’s Street was blown off by gale force winds which swept across the region. Police in Dumfries can confirm that around 40 people were evacuated from around 20 flats in St Michael Street […]

The B794 Dalbeattie to Corsock road has been closed from its junction with the A75 to the Haugh of Urr village due to a fallen tree. The road will be closed overnight The obstruction cannot be removed due to the severe weather conditions

The Community Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme is the latest development in child protection and protecting vulnerable members of our community. Also known as Keeping Children Safe the scheme is going live in Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary on 31 January 2010. The scheme means that for the first time parents, carers and guardians of children under […]

Dumfries and Galloway Council has decided to continue charging for Blue Badges. The original decision to charge £20 for a Blue Badge was made during the budget setting process in February 2010. A motion to withdraw the £20 charge was brought to a full meeting of the Council on Friday 28 January. The vote was […]

A team of 14 swimmers from Dumfries and Galloway schools travelled to Tollcross in Glasgow for the Brodies Scottish Schools Swimming Finals on Saturday 29th January 2011. Swimmers entered a qualifying event held at DG One Leisure Complex in October 2010. Based on the results from that event, swimmers are then put forward for the […]

Police in Dumfries are appealing for witnesses to an incident which took place around 1600 hours on Wednesday 26 January, at the telephone box outside the Post Office in St Michaels Street in Dumfries. At that time two men were seen at the phone box in what may have been an attempt to break into […]

Police have now named the man killed in a road crash on Monday 24 January 2011 on the A75 road near Springholm, as 22 year old Mark David Roderick Hoare from Bromley Street in Bately, West Yorkshire.