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    FOUR of the region’s beaches are expected to be classed as having ‘POOR” water quality when new European quality standards are issued next Spring. The tighter regulations and a wet summer have combined to give beaches at Sandhills, Rockcliffe, Dhoon Bay and Mossyard a ‘POOR” classification. However, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) expects […]

  Dumfries and Galloway Council is to continue to invest fully in major festivals and events in 2016 and 2017. The Local Authority’s Major Events Strategic Fund is now open for applications, on a competitive basis, for major events that take place in the region or that wish to relocate to Dumfries and Galloway.

  Dumfriesshire MSP Elaine Murray has pushed for the Scottish Government to act to tackle nuisance calls and texts, following a debate in Holyrood. Elaine has demanded that the Scottish Government commits to using certified companies and publishes an action plan for working to target nuisance calls in Dumfries & Galloway. According to research by […]

  John Alexander Ross CBE DL has been appointed Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant for Wigtown.He succeeds the late Marion Teresa Brewis CVO, who retired in September 2014. John Ross is a senior partner in his family’s farming business.  A former president of the National Farmers’ Untion of Scotland, he has also served as a director […]

  Galloway and West Dumfries MSP Alex Fergusson has pledged his support to help Breast Cancer Now stop women in Galloway and West Dumfries dying from breast cancer. At a Scottish Parliamentary event hosted by Breast Cancer Now, to mark the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), Mr Fergusson joined fellow parliamentarians from across […]

  DUMFRIES and Galloway Council and the Community Safety Partnership want our region to be the safest place in which to live, work and visit. The Partnership is committed to reducing or eliminating the threats to safety within our communities and would welcome your thoughts on what the priorities for community safety should be and […]

The members of the group, who were from in and around Vilnius and Kaunas, visited the region as part of the Teach Global Ambassadors project, organised by the International Development Education Association of Scotland (IDEAS). Dumfries and Galloway was 1 of 4 local authorities participating in this EU funded project, which involves teacher training and […]

Police Scotland report that they have now identified the body of a female which was found on the shoreline at Monreith, Dumfries and Galloway, on 11 August 2015, as 71 year old Breda Delaney, from Blackrock, Co Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Family of the deceased have been made aware and the Procurator Fiscal has been […]

Dumfries & Galloway Young Farmers week beginning the 4th of October set the challenge to the 6 Young Farmers clubs in the Region namely Annandale YFC, Thornhill YFC, Lower Nithsdale YFC, Stewartry YFC, Machars YFC and Stranraer and Rhins YFC. To construct visually striking structures made primarily from Bales along the Main transport routes in […]

The Peoples Project and Rotary Club of Dumfries Deverorgilla get all clear to go ahead with plans for a fireworks display in Dumfries on Sunday the 8th of November 2015 . The FREE Bonfire Display will be held on Sunday the 8th November at 6pm at the Dumfries Whitesands, and it will be the first […]