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    CHILDREN from primary schools in Annandale and Eskdale gathered at the Everholm Running Track in Annan for the Annandale and Eskdale Primary Schools Sprint Relay Finals Organised by Active Schools and Community Sport for Dumfries and Galloway Council the event again attracted a large entry for this event with forty seven relay teams […]

Newly elected MSP Emma Harper got back to her nursing roots attending a Dementia Awareness event at the Easterbrook Hall. As a nurse educator, Ms Harper is all too aware of the effects of Dementia, and is keen to raise awareness of the disease ahead of Dementia Awareness Week. The event, organised by Lyndsay Johnston […]

  POLICE Scotland is warning local businesses across Dumfries and Galloway to be on the alert for a potential fraud which has hit a number of companies in the region over the past weeks. Already two businesses have handed over more than £20,000 and one other one stopped just in time. On three occasions known […]

  POLICE throughout Scotland and England are mounting a full scale investigation after the latest threat to schools which included on in Dumfries. Police Scotland said that a number of schools in the central belt and one in Dumfries and Galloway received threats by telephone this morning. Dumfries High School was one of these schools […]

  OFFICIALS are recommending to Councillors that plans for a five wind turbine development at land to the east of Blackwood Hill, Auldgirth, should be turned down. Permission being sought for the 120 metre high turbines by Force 9 Energy is being fiercely opposed by local groups and individuals with 88 individual objectors. A report […]

    ANYONE with an unwanted air gun will be able to hand it in at designated police stations across Dumfries and Galloway from Monday. Unwanted air weapons should be surrendered at police stations across Scotland from Monday as new licensing legislation comes into effect. That’s the message from Police Scotland at the start of […]

    THE 2016 Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival is the biggest and most diverse to date and opens across Dumfries and Galloway tonight. Highlights from the main programme include the notable SONGS OF SEPARATION. The performance in Dumfries is the culmination of a project that brought together ten female folk musicians from Scotland and England on […]

Dumfries and Galloway Blood Bikes have been nominated and short listed for the Britain’s got Spirit awards for the Borders and Scotland. If they are successful in gaining enough nominations they go forward and could win £25000 for there charity . Blood Bikes are a new charity in our area providing co ordinated transportation of blood, samples […]

    A POLICE officer from the Dumfries and Galloway division of Police Scotland has won the prestigious Baton of Honour. Constable Courtney Richards who has just finished her basic training at the Scottish Police College has won the award on course 3/16. Constable Richards, who is 24 years completed the course on Friday and was presented with […]

    FUNDING of more than £180,000 is being handed out in Nithsdale under the Discretionary Grants budged. Nithsdale Area Committee Members approved funding to the sum of £186,684 from the 2016/17 Discretionary Grants Budget. This is out of the total available of £188,568 which is the remainder of the initial allocation of £360,134 following the […]