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  DUMFRIES and Galloway Council’s Community and Customer Services Committee will convene on Thursday 3 September, and will hear of the options relating to the new Archive Centre in Dumfries. Members will be asked to note that the application made to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to assist with funding for the new archive centre […]

  THE businesses in Stranraer have chosen not to back the BID proposals set out in the Stranraer BID Business Plan. The Ballot held on Friday 28th August saw 161 qualifying ballot papers returned. For a ‘yes’ outcome to the ballot, it required over 50% of the voters to vote in favour and over 50% […]

  POLICE have named the victims of the motorway crash which left two young men dead near Kirkpatrick Fleming yesterday morning. The men who died were Tosief Ahmed, 21, and 22-year-old Asad Majeed, 22, both from the Oldham area in Lancashire. A Police Scotland spokesman said today that they were still appealing for anyone with […]

    QUEEN of the South host Rangers today  on the back of a disappointing League Cup show on Tuesday. It’s a huge match for the Doonhamers but manager James Fowler reckons Queens players will be up for th match. The Sunday afternoon match will draw a big crowd to Palmerston and despite the midweekdisappointment. […]

  A HOST of artistes will thrill thousands at today’s Electric Fields 2015 festival at picturesque Drumlanrig Castle near Thornhill. One of Scotland’s most revered and loved songsmiths, King Creosote, will be headlining Electric Fields 2015! With over 40 albums and a Mercury Prize nomination to his name there is no doubting the quality of this […]

POLICE Scotland officers are investigating after a man was found injured in the town centre at Sanquhar. The Police investigation began after the man was foundin the early hours of the morning. Police in Sanquhar are appealing for witnesses after the man was found in an injured condition in Sanquhar High Street during the early hours […]

  The ‘Keep Safe’ scheme is a partnership between Police Scotland and the community group ‘I Am Me’. It sees the establishment of a network of local shops and businesses who provide an immediate place of safety for disabled, vulnerable or older people in the event they need help, are lost, scared or the victim […]

    Local residents in the region who have been the victims of mail scams are going to receive their money back. The Trading Standards team at Dumfries and Galloway Council have been working in cooperation with the National Scams Team who have intercepted scam mail. The national team are continuously working to identify scams […]

  NHS Dumfries and Galloway has issued an apology to a woman who was told she might need a hysterectomy shortly before going through another operation The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman said that the woman named as Mrs C had been admitted to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary for pelvic floor repair, as she had a […]

  THE majority of people in Scotland rate their neighbourhood as a good place to live, have access to the internet and engaged in some type of cultural activity in 2014. Around half are positive about their finances, a quarter have volunteered in the last 12 months and one in five adults smoke cigarettes. These […]