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If you missed the live local debate on the 23rd April, you can listen to the whole show here. The event was hosted by Lee Medd, before a live audience in Kings Coffee and Books, in Dumfries. The four main parties were represented as follows: SNP: Richard Arkless Labour: Russell Brown Conservative: Finlay Carson Liberal […]
The Wickerman Festival has revealed that reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff will join the Festival’s main stage bill. Other stellar acts set to play the Summerisle Stage and Scooter Tent include iconic garage rockers The Sonics, the genre defying Neneh Cherry, British electronic / hip hop group Stereo MCs, psychedelic rocker Julian Cope and rap pioneers […]
Join the audience in Kings Coffee and Books, 12 Queensberry Street, Dumfries DG1 1EX, for a live election debate, with all the main parties represented by local candidates. The broadcast goes live at 7.30pm on Thursday 23rd April, but we’re looking for a studio audience to be in place by 7pm. The event is ticketed, […]
Graham Smith has been hard at work writing two new crime fiction books. Mark Smith (no relation!) popped in to have a word about his forthcoming book launch this Thursday, 19th March in Waterstones, Carlisle. You can hear the interview during Mark’s Wednesday Drivetime show this week. After a long day in the office in […]
Wednesday 11 March is the International Day of Awesomeness when all over the world people will take the time to celebrate the people and things in their lives that are truly awesome. In Dumfries and Galloway Micro-markets co-ordinator Karen Booth is asking you to celebrate the awesomeness of local micro-enterprises that are providing support and […]
Engineering work carried out in 2013 allowed ITV Border to split their signal, and transmit separate services for England and Scotland on Freeview as of January 2014. This change enabled ITV to broadcast its Scotland-only current affairs programmes, Representing Border and Border Life, in the Scottish part of the Border region. ITV can today confirm that work is now […]
All grounds throughout NHS Dumfries & Galloway are to become smoke free by 31st March 2015. From this date, patients, visitors and staff will be asked to wait until they are off NHS grounds before lighting up and smoking shelters will be removed from hospital grounds. This ambitious move to achieve smoke free status in […]
Marking International Women’s Day yesterday, SNP candidate for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale Emma Harper highlights that a progressive agenda is needed to tackle inequality. After a week where it emerged that Westminster’s welfare reforms were hitting lone parents, mostly women, the hardest, Harper is calling on the UK government to investigate reports that DWP staff […]
South of Scotland MSP Joan McAlpine has lodged a complaint with ITV Border over the broadcaster’s unbalanced coverage of last week’s poll from Lord Ashcroft which showed that the SNP’s candidates in Dumfries and Galloway and Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale are set to take the seats from their respective Labour and Tory incumbents. Ms McAlpine […]
The site of the decommissioned nuclear power plant at Chapel Cross has been hailed as a potential national storage centre for renewable energy at a Scottish Parliament event held last week. The event, hosted by south of Scotland MSP Joan McAlpine brought together academics, environmental campaigners and the energy sector to listen to presentations on […]
