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Plans to help regenerate Stranraer have secured £1.8m in funding but two other Dumfries and Galloway towns have missed out. The money will be used to improve links from Castle Square to the marina and enhance links to the West Pier. Dumfries and Galloway Council said it was pleased to secure the Regeneration Capital Grant […]

    THE SNP Scottish Government has been accused of ‘conning’ the region after news that a new resilience centre in Dumfries will create only TWO jobs. Elaine Murray has accused the Scottish Government  of “conning” the people of Dumfries & Galloway following a recent announcement that the National Centre of Resilience to be established […]

Building Craftsmen Dumfries-sponsored Solway Sharks play their latest “must win” games this weekend as the NIHL regular season enters its final month with the race to finish in the top four likely to go down to the wire. Last Saturday the Sharks held out in a 7-5 home win over third-placed Solihull Barons to move […]

    WILD Spring Festival 2016 will start on Friday the 25 March and run through until Sunday 10 April. A programme of over 60 events, activities, fairs and guided walks will highlight the fantastic wildlife that is coming back to life, or just coming back to Dumfries and Galloway. The events will cover the […]

Joan McAlpine has said the proposal by Scotland’s Chief Statistician to create a new European statistical region for the South of Scotland is very good news for Dumfries and Galloway and may result in more money coming to the region from the EU. Ms McAlpine said: “The change in classification will better reflect the challenges […]

  Dumfries and Galloway farmers were promoting the great story behind Scotland’s food and drink to shoppers at Aldi in Dumfries last weekend. Pictured left to right are branch chairman James Taylor, his wife Doreen, regional chairman Gary Mitchell and regional manager Teresa Dougall who served up a selection of Scottish cooked meats, Lockerbie cheddar, Scottish […]

    Health Secretary, Shona Robison has confirmed that NHS Dumfries and Galloway will receive an additional £13.5 million in 2016-17. This is an increase of 5.1 per cent on NHS Dumfries and Galloway’s budget level in 2015-16, bringing the board’s overall funding to £279.4 million. NHS Dumfries and Galloway’s uplift includes £7.6 million for […]

Police Scotland officers in Dumfries are investigating the theft of wheels from vans in the Arnold Clark garage on Annan Road in Dumfries.  The theft occurred sometime overnight Saturday 27/Sunday 28 February 2016.  The wheels from four Renault vans parked in the compound have been stolen and the value is around £3,750. Constable Victoria Urwin […]

    South of Scotland MSP Joan McAlpine congratulated campaigners who succeeded in getting an important local history book reprinted by its Edinburgh publishers.   Ms McAlpine had added her support to an online petition calling on publishers Birlinn to reprint “The Lowland Clearances” by Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell.   The book argues that […]