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Locals and visitors alike are being encouraged to save the date for this year’s Galloway Country Fair, as Drumlanrig Castle and Country Estate announces dates for 2016. The popular country event – which clinched ‘Best Traditional Event’ at the 2015 Scottish Event Awards – will return to Drumlanrig on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st August. […]

Do you want to be in the audience of special programmes putting politicians under the spotlight? BBC Scotland is hosting a series of TV and radio debates ahead of the Holyrood election on 5 May. Two hustings will take place in the south of Scotland – the first in Dumfries on 26 April and the […]

  Located in Dumfries, Moffat and Stranraer, South West Scotland, Dumfries & Galloway Blood Bikes is a charity that delivers essential blood samples and urgent medical supplies to support the NHS, between three hospitals and other healthcare sites in the area. D & G Blood Bikes was set up in 2015 and now has five […]

A rare bronze sculpture of Peter Pan has been sold at auction for more than twice its estimated value. The figure of the popular children’s character was expected to fetch up to £30,000 but it finally sold for £60,000 at an auction in Edinburgh. It is a smaller version of a statue commissioned by JM […]

  Manchester Blood Bikes – Snow Drop Appeal This week, members of the Dumfries and Galloway Blood Bikes joined Chris Lewis-Todd and other volunteers from the Manchester group to deliver the toiletries to University Hospital of South Manchester. Chris and Colette, lost their baby Little Pop in October 2015 and spent two nights at the […]

More than half of people in Scotland now have no religion, according to research. Findings from the Scottish Social Attitudes survey show 52% of people say they are not religious, compared with 40% in 1999 when the survey began. The proportion who say they belong to the Church of Scotland has fallen from 35% in […]

    A TEENAGE football fan has been accused in court at Dumfries of breaching a bail condition which banned him from attending the weekend’s match between Queen of the South and Falkirk. Nineteen-year-old Roderick McDonald is accused of attending the match at Palmerston while under a ban imposed at Glasgow Sheriff Court two months […]

  Building Craftsmen Dumfries-sponsored Solway Sharks recorded two wins last  weekend – 9-3 at home to Sutton and 8-2 away to Widnes – to keep their momentum rolling ahead of the NIHL Playoffs in two weeks time. Saturday’s home win was the final League action of the year for the Dumfries Ice Bowl based club, […]

  FROM today (1 April, 2016) responsibility for the regulation of Scotland’s reservoirs has now transferred to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). With the introduction of the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011, the safety of all existing reservoirs over 25,000m3capacity will now be regulated by SEPA. The 2011 Act replaces the Reservoir Act 1975 under […]

A scaled-down package of cuts to bus services across Dumfries and Galloway has been agreed. The plans had been revised in the face of considerable public opposition to the potential loss of a string of evening and Sunday services. The South West of Scotland Transport Partnership (SWestrans) was considering the move to help it absorb […]