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  HEADING the bill at this month’s World War One themed Pack Up Your Troubles Festival will be Fiona Harrison – a voice in a million. When it comes to capturing the grace and elegance of the First World War era, Fiona Harrison is a costume artist like no-other. To tie in with the many […]

  AROUND £4,000 worth of jewellery has been stolen from a house in Dumfries and there have been raids on other homes and businesses across the region Police Scotland said they are investigating the raids which have taken place over the past few days. Sometime between Friday 17 July and Friday 31 July 2015 a […]

TWO Dumfries football fans have been banned from attending regulated matches for four months It follows incidents during the Scottish League Cup game between Annan and Queen of the South. Connor Fleming, 24, of Lincluden Road, Dumfries, was also fined £150 after admitting being in possession of a flare-type smoke grenade at the Gala bank ground […]

  Police Scotland can report that enquiries are currently being carried out in relation to what appears to be a case of dangerous driving on the A75 road near to Glenluce. Constable Scott McCreadie of the Divisional Roads Policing Unit said “the incident in question has been captured on camera and then posted on Facebook […]

  Dumfries Police Scotland is investigating the circumstances surrounding an incident which happened on the Cuckoo overbridge in at around 11.30 hours today (Tuesday 4 August 2015) At that time a 15 year old boy has fallen from the bridge onto the roadway. He was treated at the scene and thereafter removed to Dumfries and […]

Dumfries Galloway Police DivisionWe are currently dealing with an incident at the Cuckoo Bridge in Dumfries and there are traffic restrictions in force on the roads including the A75. Please avoid the area where possible.

  In a bid to tackle agricultural crime in the rural community, a rural watch scheme for Dumfries and Galloway was re-launched on NFU Scotland’s stand at the local agricultural show on Saturday 1 August. Run by Police Scotland in conjunction with NFU Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Rural Watch works by sharing alerts and crime […]

      POLICE in Dumfries have arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with a serious assault in Dumfries early on Saturday. A major police investigation has been going on since a 44-year-old man was found to have serious injuries in Queensberry Street, Dumfries in the early hours of Saturday morning. He was taken to […]

Keep the kids entertained at annual Dumfries & Galloway event   Galloway Country Fair will return to Drumlanrig Castle and Country Estate this year, with a feast of family fun. The annual Fair, which will take place on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August, will see the introduction of a brand new, free children’s entertainment zone, […]

    MSP Alex Fergusson has described the Scottish Government’s Common Agricultural Policy support payment procedure as a fiasco. Reacting to the news that the Scottish Government is having to recruit 20 ‘Digitisers’ to help with the verification process to which all applications for Common Agricultural Policy support payments have to be subjected, Scottish Rural […]