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  At the Economy, Environment and Infrastructure committee on 10th November, Councillors agreed the new supplementary guidance for the local development plan. Included within the new supplementary guidance, councillors agreed to adopt the Chapelcross Development Framework. The Development Framework Plan for Chapelcross, supported by a Preliminary Marketing Strategy and based on the sub-regional Economic Baseline […]

WEATHER forecasters are keeping a close watch on the Storm Abigail which is tracking towards Scotland. Although the Abigail is expected to bring storm force winds of 80 – 90mph in the North and West of Scotland, gales will also hit the South of Scotland. Abigail is the first storm to be officially named by […]

With 2016 being the 40th Anniversary for Dundrennan Born haulier Mikey Kerr’s family business being of service to the Scottish meat industry, it only seems fit that the family owned Castle Douglas based haulage company that Mikey Runs in partnership with his wife Michelle has just been awarded the title of ‘Scottish European Haulier Of […]

  A number of Dumfries & Galloway tourism businesses are celebrating after winning a prestigious regional tourism awards The region beat of stiff competition from areas including Ayrshire & Arran, Glasgow and Argyll & The Isles to take the top prize in four categories at the Central South West Scottish Thistle Awards regional final. Held […]

  Dumfries and Galloway Library Service is holding a number of unique events during Book Week Scotland 2015 (23-29 Nov) including an evening with leading fiction writers Helen Fitzgerald and Karen Campbell at the renovated Theatre Royal, a Celebration of Memoir Writing with Renita Boyle and the first ever play at the Ewart Library – […]

A website built for a Kirkcudbright based cycling holiday company, Trailbrakes Biking Holidays, has won the accolade of Best Drupal Website (Scotland) at an awards ceremony last weekend. The site, designed and built by Dumfries based company Findlay Design, was up against other Drupal websites from across Scotland and it drew praise from the judges […]

  They are too young thankfully to remember the horrors of war but standing side by side with Veterans commemorating Armistice Day Today Wednesday the 11th of November  were some of Dumfries’ youngest children. For among those paying their respects at the War Memorial outside St John’s Church on Newall Terrace at 11 o’clock were […]

Dumfriesshire MSP and Shadow Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs, Elaine Murray, and Chair of Dumfries & Galloway Council Police, Fire and Rescue Sub Committee, Councillor John Syme have called for immediate action from the Scottish Government in response to the report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) on Call Handling. […]

It’s a road double header this weekend for Solway Sharks at Sheffield Spartans and Sutton Sting – and the team are on a three-game winning streak in the League after a 6-4 win over Solihull Barons on Saturday at the Ice Bowl. Before the game, Solway and Solihull players paid their tributes on Remembrance weekend […]

    Dumfries and Galloway councillors at the meeting of Environment, Economy and Infrastructure committee today (10 November 2015) agreed a flood protection and regeneration scheme for the Whitesands. Councillors unanimously approved the Raised Walkway design which was presented to the committee as the optimal design. Feedback from the recent consultation were presented to the […]