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A HILL walker has been brought to safety from the Galloway Forest last night in the third rescue in Dumfries and Galloway this weekend. Police Scotland said that a man who had been reported missing inthe Galloway Forest had been found late last night. Members of the Galloway Mountain Rescue Tam were alerted by police […]

Burnsians from all parts are expected to gather at St. Michael’s Church in Dumfries on 25TH January to mark the 257th anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s National Bard, Robert Burns and will be welcomed by David Miller, president of the Southern Scottish Burns Association and his office bearers. The annual commemorative service takes place […]

  FINES totalling a record £284,400 were handed down to companies and individuals in the last financial year as a result of criminal cases instigated by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). This is the highest combined amount of fines in the last five years, and full details of these are revealed in SEPA’ Enforcement report 2014-2015 which […]

A rural primary school in Dumfries and Galloway which currently has just two pupils is likely to close in July 2016. Mouswald Primary School, is the second school Dumfries and Galloway council officials have recommended for closure in the last two months, St Peter’s Roman Catholic Primary in Dalbeattie is also earmarked to shut. Dumfries […]

The military’s last Scottish based search and rescue helicopter crew will say goodbye after 40 years of service with a final fly-past yesterday Thursday. The aircraft were a frequent sight in our region  Royal Navy Search and Rescue Flight, HMS Gannet, has been commissioned at Prestwick Airport since 1971 and is one of the busiest […]

At yesterdays meeting of Policy and Resources committee (14 January), Members of the Committee agreed that the Leader write a letter to John Swinney seeking much needed clarification on the conditions of financial settlement contained in his letter of 16 December 2015. The Leader outlined the level of savings required by the Council. The Scottish […]

      MSP Elaine Murray and Dumfries & Galloway Council Leader Ronnie Nicholson have slammed the Scottish Government after new figures reveal that they are planning to cut the fuel poverty budget by £15 million. The latest estimates suggest that 45% of households in Dumfries & Galloway live in fuel poverty and 63% of […]

COUNCILLORS have agreed to make a £50,000 contribution to the Theatre Royal at Dumfries to help with unforeseen costs. The request for the funding was received from the Master of the Guild of Players of Dumfries for the Theatre Royal project after renovation work on Scotland’s oldest working theatre rose from the expected £1.9 million to over £2 million […]

An explosive row has broken out in Holyrood today over the failure of Dumfries and Galloway Council to pass on Scottish Government money to victims of flooding. In a heated exchange, Deputy First Minister John Swinney called on the council to ‘pay up to the people and stop finding excuses.’ Mr Swinney put paid to […]