Dumfries and Galloway Council’s new interim chief executive faces a baptism of fire with a rise in Covid cases and the ongoing challenge of delivering services over winter.
23.12.2021 - 11:55 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The region’s only gliding club has been left counting the cost of Storm Arwen.
Dumfries and District Gliding Club, which is based at Falgunzeon near Dalbeattie, lost a shed in the high winds at the end of November.
And while their winch and tow car survived, a generator was crushed when the shed blew down.
They have now launched a fundraising appeal to find £12,000 to go towards a new structure and generator.
Treasurer David Neilson said: “We have had a bit of a disaster and the shed has
Dumfries and Galloway Council’s new interim chief executive faces a baptism of fire with a rise in Covid cases and the ongoing challenge of delivering services over winter.
Dumfries and Galloway residents are being urged to get boosted before the bells to help protect themselves against Covid.
Schoolchildren are to be given the chance to take part in a controversial survey which asks intimate sexual questions.
A further 12 people in Dumfries and Galloway have lost their lives to drugs.
Several hundred dead birds have been removed from a nature reserve as the region copes with the biggest avian flu outbreak of recent years.
Dumfries and Galloway Council’s budget settlement was yesterday labelled “a real nightmare before Christmas”.
People visiting friends or family in hospital must have tested negative for Covid-19 before arriving.
A Penpont man is suing the council for “damaging” his family’s headstones – and then trying to bury the issue.
Due to relaxed Covid restrictions, November 19 was the first opportunity for the charity Prostate Buddies D&G to launch a short film they originally commissioned in 2019.
Nursing and midwifery vacancies in Dumfries and Galloway have nearly trebled in six months as a “staffing crisis” worsens.
A concerned councillor has this week warned of a potential palliative care crisis across Dumfries and Galloway as severe winter pressures on health services kick in. Pauline Drysdale, who represents the Dee and Glenkens ward, has spoken out after recently experiencing a challenging healthcare situation involving her own family.
The impact of widespread child poverty in Dumfries and Galloway has been significantly worsened by the pandemic, according to a new report. And the prolonged lockdown restrictions “disproportionately affected low-income families with young children.” With more than 6,200 youngsters in poverty across the region at the last count in 2019/20, this placed Dumfries and Galloway as the seventh worst out of 32 council areas in Scotland.
A forces charity boss had a lucky escape during Storm Arwen.
A plea will be made this week for Dumfries and Galloway Council to halt the controversial dismantling of headstones in cemeteries across the region.
Drug dealers can expect to be facing justice soon in Dumfries and Galloway, a police chief has warned.
Ensuring that elderly and vulnerable people receive sufficient care at home should be a priority for the local authority, a councillor has insisted.
Around 1,000 pupils have been sent home from Dumfries and Galloway schools this term amid Covid scares.
A health chief has praised the public for their reaction to an appeal to help patients get back home from hospital.