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  THE Big Burns Supper 2016 is to receive a grant of £33,000 from Winter Festival fund it was announced today. People across Scotland are set to experience the country’s biggest ever Winter Festival celebrations this year. A record £390,000 will support 22 key cultural events which will form parts of Scotland’s Winter Festivals 2015/16 […]

We have just had reports that the A76 is CLOSED at Closeburn due to a road traffic accident , diversions are in force .

  POLICE are hunting a fire raiser after a shed was destroyed in a blaze at Dumfries. Sometime between Tuesday 22 – 29 September a new flat-packed garden shed was set on fire and destroyed at a storage site in the Maxwelltown Industrial Estate in Dumfries. The shed, which was valued at £500, was totally destroyed in the […]

Solway Sharks will wear Alive Radio logo on their shirts again this season and will promote and publicise Alive throughout the season and will help raise funds for Alive through bucket collections and new and improved Shark Week towards the end of the season where Sharks players will feature on Alive live shows . Alive’s Station […]

  More than two million people in Scotland will be offered the flu vaccination. Children and adults who are getting vaccinated against flu this autumn, today joined the Public Health Minister to declare that they’re ‘Ready for Flu’ at the launch of the national flu immunisation programme. Over two million people in Scotland will be […]

    THIEVES are continuing to target homes across the region and in the latest two incidents houses at Irongray and Dalton were hit. Police Scotland is investigating a break-in to a cottage in Irongray, Dumfries which happened sometime between 1830 hours and 2130 hours on Tuesday 29 September 2015.  The house was broken into […]

A CUMMERTREES woman who celebrated her 100th birthday got a special surprise from the region’s library service. Mrs Rosina Thomson celebrated her 100th birthday on last Wednesday (23 September) and was presented with flowers by library mobile drivers Linda Tennant and Iain Morrison. Mrs Thomson, who also received a signed copy of a Large Print book by Diane Allen on behalf of the […]

    A 26-year-old postman has admitted in court to stealing a quantity of postal packets and delaying nearly 2,500. Grant McCrone, of Balmoral Avenue, Dumfries, pleaded guilty at Dumfries Sheriff Court to stealing the packets while employed as a postal worker between September and December 2012. He also admitted intentionally delaying delivery of 2489 […]

  Police Scotland is investigating two suspicious fires in Dumfries and Galloway. In the first, damage was caused to a letter box and door at a flat in Dee Road in Kirkcudbright sometime around 1510 hours on Tuesday 29 September 20015. The fire was extinguished by a neighbour and the Fire and Rescue Service notified […]