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  AROUND £40,000 is being made available to support arts projects in Dumfries and Galloway through the Dumfries and Galloway Council Regional Arts Fund. The fund is aimed at extending and increasing the impact of the arts across the Dumfries and Galloway region. Dumfries and Galloway Council and Dumfries and Galloway Chamber of the Arts […]

  The Council’s Social Work Services committee (27 October 2015) will hear of significant changes in the number of children supported in out-of-region placements and provided with community based support. Social Work Services significantly reduced the number of agency placements over the latter part of financial year 2014/15, laying foundations for 2015/16. Improved practice has […]

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    A total of 90 Community Councils within our region have been established (through 79 Un-Contested Elections and 11 Contested Elections) thanks to the Community council Elections, held on Thursday 22 October.These are detailed below: Annandale and Eskdale Uncontested Elections Cummertrees and Cummertrees West Dalton and Carrutherstown, Eastriggs, Dornock and Creca Eskdalemuir Gretna and […]

        Police Scotland is offering advice to all forms of road user as the long dark nights approach. The clocks went back last weekend and the start of the official British winter time usually sees more road traffic collisions on Dumfries and Galloway’s roads. Police are encouraging motorists to make sure that […]

A troubled bike hire scheme in Dumfries has been suspended until next spring, Almost every cycle which has been part of the Bike2Go project has been removed for “maintenance and overhaul”. Dumfries and Galloway Council said the bikes will be returned when the scheme is relaunched in conjunction with a similar project run by ScotRail. […]

  Police Scotland officers in Dumfries are investigating an act of vandalism which saw two fish tanks containing tropical fish vandalised resulting in the death of all the fish. Sometime on the evening of Saturday 24 October 2015 a house in Ashton Drive in Dumfries was entered and two fish tanks were contaminated by what […]

MSP for the South of Scotland Aileen McLeod is encouraging organisations and individuals across Dumfries & Galloway to submit their views as part of a nation-wide review of the planning system. The independent panel has been tasked with bringing together ideas to achieve a quicker, more accessible and efficient planning process in Scotland. Aileen said: “The […]

  Queens welcome bottom of the table Livingston to Palmerston today and are hoping to get back to winning ways after succumbing late in the game last week at Ibrox . Livi themselves tasted defeat midweek against Rangers in the Petrofac Cup quarter finals thanks to former Doonhamer Nicky Clark . Queens go into today’s […]

    ELECTIONS will be held in a number of local community councils. Over recent weeks the people of Dumfries and Galloway were asked to nominate candidates for their local Community Councils. The level of interest shown now means that Community Councillors for 79 Community Councils have been elected unopposed and there is no need […]