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UNIVERSITY of the West of Scotland (UWS) has announced the appointment of Professor Caroline MacDonald as its new Vice Chair of Court, the governing body of the University. Professor MacDonald will take up this post in January following the retirement of Graham Peterkin, who has served as Vice Chair for over two years. Professor MacDonald […]

    Police are issuing a warning to the Dumfries and GallowayCENSED public about the dangers of getting into vehicles seeming to be taxis when they are not actually properly licensed as such. From time to time reports are received from the public relating to cars and minibuses which operate as a taxi when not […]

Following a recent event held at Westminster by leading charity Bowel Cancer UK, Richard Arkless MP for Dumfries and Galloway pledged to take action in Parliament and locally to stop bowel cancer. Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in Scotland, affecting both men and women. Every year over 4,000 people are diagnosed with […]

A Council apprentice was recently announced as runner up in the Apprentice of the Year awards run by APSE (Association for Public Sector Excellence). Warren Hill, an apprentice joiner with DGFirst’s Building and Maintenance Services, was selected as a finalist from apprentices the length and breadth of the UK. He is in the third year […]

46% of Dumfries & Galloway’s roads network has little or no mobile coverage MSP for the South of Scotland Aileen McLeod is backing calls on the UK Government to prioritise rural areas for mobile phone coverage after a report revealed that nearly half of roads in Dumfries & Galloway have little or no coverage. The […]

Six Dumfries and Galloway Junior Solway Sharks players are delighted to have been selected for Great Britain Ice Hockey teams. Lewis Houston and Ruairi Lockerbie are both in the Solway Sharks Juniors Under 16s team, and were thrilled to be selected as part of the GB U16s squad. GB Under 16s was set up earlier […]

Dumfrieshire MSP Joan McAlpine joined the last commanding officer of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers to promote the restoration of war memorials. Col Rob Jeffries led the historic regiment on its last march in its 317 year history in Edinburgh in 2006. The two met at a Scottish Parliament reception hosted by former First Minister […]

  Police Scotland is investigating a spate of housebreaking’s in Dumfries and Galloway which happened sometime between Friday 27 and Sunday 30 November 2015. Houses in Kirkcudbright, Castle Douglas, Thornhill, Dumfries and Ruthwell were broken into, or attempts made to break into them over this period. Four houses in Kirkcudbright were the subject of break-ins or attempts. Houses […]

The title chosen by senior students for the third Rotary International Peace Conference held last Thursday at Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries. Some 200 students from Dumfries and Galloway, with contingents from Dunbar and Barnsley, accompanied by teachers and Rotarians, made up the total of 250 attendees. The key to the outstanding success of the day was […]