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  Scotland’s farmers have called on the Scottish public to have a happy – but lantern-free – bonfire night this week. Speaking ahead of bonfires and fireworks being lit around the country on Thursday, 5 November, NFU Scotland would welcome dangerous sky lanterns being banned from being part of any display. It also urges those […]

      DUMFRIES and Galloway Council is hosting a ground breaking employer partnership event at Hetland Hall Hotel between 9am and 12.30pm on Tuesday November 3. The purpose of the event is to support local employers build the workforce of the future where we want every young person to: Be ready for the world […]

    DUMFRIES and Galloway Council is inviting funding applications from voluntary and community organisations to Area Committees and Sports Councils. Applications will be considered for projects or activities that fit closely with the criteria set by the local Area Committees (Annandale and Eskdale; Nithsdale; Stewartry; Wigtown). If your project or activity covers more than […]

    A Port Logan resident who wrote a short story about a special journey for a national writing competition has had her submission chosen to be published in a book. Jane Fuller beat off competition from 600 other entries to win a place in Journeys, a special book to be published as part of Book Week Scotland. Jane’s […]

There will be selection of works today on the A76 – stop-go boards at Holywood, three-way lights at the A702 junction north of Thornhill, long term signals at Enterkinfoot and lining between Sanquhar and the Ayrshire boundary. Elsewhere, traffic controls remain in place on the A75 for telecoms work between Palnure and Carsluith. Temporary lights […]

Dumfries and Galloway Councillors at the Environment, Economy and Infrastructure committee will be told at the meeting next week (10 November) that more funding has been secured for the regeneration of Stranraer. The Council has been successful in securing £0.540M from Historic Scotland to establish a Conservation Area Regeneration Programme across Stranraer Conservation Area broadly […]

Dumfries and Galloway Councillors at the meeting of Environment, Economy and Infrastructure committee (10 November 2015) will be asked to consider the next steps for the Whitesands project and agree a preferred option for a flood protection scheme. The Council has been consulting on the project since 2012 and a further round of public consultation […]

At the Economy, Environment and Infrastructure Committee (EEI) on 10 November 2015, Councillors will be asked to consider how the Council should deal with responding to the SPEN Strategic Reinforcement Project. This project involves the proposals by Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) for the development and provision of new overhead power lines from Ayrshire, through […]

    MSP for South Scotland Aileen McLeod has today (Monday) welcomed the announcement of an increase in the Living Wage – and urged more local businesses to mark Living Wage Week 2015 by signing up as accredited Living Wage employers. As announced today, the Living Wage rate – calculated independently by the Living Wage […]

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