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A year-long campaign has been launched to “highlight the benefits” provided by the management of Scotland’s grouse moors. It comes on the first day of the grouse shooting season, traditionally known as the “Glorious Twelfth”. Meanwhile, RSPB Scotland has again called for grouse moors to be licensed. The call follows the discovery of a dead […]

A taxi driver from Liverpool has been jailed for four years after he was caught near Gretna with heroin with a street value of more than £64,000. Keith Hill, 41, admitted being concerned in the supply of the drug. The High Court in Edinburgh heard how a mobile patrol on the A74(M) motorway stopped a […]

    Police and Fire Service are currently dealing with an incident in Lovers Walk, Dumfries along with Fire and Rescue Staff. This has resulted in a power cut in the area which has affected the traffic lights are the junction of Lovers Walk/Academy Street and Academy Street/Loreburn Street. Please avoid the area if possible […]

The programme has been officially launched for the annual festival in Scotland’s national book town. More than 200 events are planned in Wigtown between 25 September and 4 October this year. Organisers of what they describe as “Scotland’s leading boutique book festival” said it promised its “most diverse programme yet”. A central theme this year […]

  A power cut is affecting about a hundred properties in parts of Dumfries town centre. Scottish Power said its engineers were aware of the issue.

A foodbank in Dumfries has said it needs to raise £15,000 by January in order to continue to keep going. Mark Frankland, of the First Base Agency, said there had been a five-fold increase in the number of emergency food parcels going out. The agency started up as a support agency for drugs users but […]

  The countdown to the Environmental Art Festival  Scotland weekend on 29 and 30 August near Thornhill began this week. The two-day celebration of experimental art and environmental consciousness is set this year in the countryside around Morton Castle. It will feature investigative installations and interactive workshops from a range of talented artists at the […]

      A 24-year-old man has been accused in the Sheriff Court at Dumfries of embezzling around £3000. Nathan Cooney admitted the offence while working as a cashier at a  filling station. Cooney, of Lochside Road, Dumfries, pleaded guilty by letter to committing the offence during a six month period last year at the Newton […]

  The beautiful stitch work of the Dumfries and District Embroiderers Guild will be showcased this month in a special exhibition at A’ the Airts, Upper Nithsdale’s community arts centre.   The works on show formed part of the recent triennial exhibition by the Dumfries and Galloway textile collectives entitled Fabric, Fibre, Thread and exhibited […]

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