Fire service campaign warns West Dunbartonshire residents of festive fires

The number of paramedics who have left their positions at the Scottish Ambulance Service is at a five-year high as the coronavirus continues to strain frontline services.

West Lothian tenants have been helped to claw back a fortune in unclaimed benefits in the past year.

Ministers have been criticised over the rising number of unfilled shifts in Scotland’s crisis-hit ambulance service.

Recycling rates have slumped in West Dunbartonshire – with council chiefs stepping up efforts to encourage residents to do their bit to tackle climate change.

Remaining residents of a 'ghost town' Scots estate are preparing to leave - nearly 18 years after council bosses branded their homes unsafe.

NHS Forth Valley is encouraging the use of Naloxone in Falkirk to tackle drug overdoses.

Thousands of frontline emergency service staff are off work due to the new Omicron Covid variant.

A homeless charity has handed 55,000 hot meals to the needy in Scotland’s biggest city in the last year.

First Bus has announced it won’t be deterred from scrapping a rural bus route that Kinross-shire residents have fought to preserve.

Shock new figures have revealed rape survivors are waiting up to 16 months to access vital services.

Police have shut off part of the Edinburgh City Bypass after an early morning crash.

Teenagers in West Dunbartonshire are set to be given a “revised” version of the controversial Scottish Government health and wellbeing census.

Emergency services are dealing with a serious two-vehicle smash in Falkirk.

Overall crime levels have slightly dropped across West Dunbartonshire – though sex crimes are still rising.

Fire crews are battling a blaze at a Scots train station with peak-time services suspended.

West Dunbartonshire has the second worst rate of domestic abuse in Scotland – with a women’s refuge charity revealing referrals have spiked by 60 percent.

Scots high school pupils are demanding their right to 'free the pee' after saying they have been banned from using the toilet.

Education chiefs are reviewing the contents of a controversial survey which quizzes pupils as young as 14 on their sexual experiences.

The Met Office have issued yellow weather warnings for snow and wind with the winter's second storm set to arrive in Scotland tomorrow.

Heartless joyriders have left a number of graves in a Glasgow cemetery damaged after driving over them with a van.