Lives and challenges faced by geese in Dumfries and Galloway to come under the spotlight

Six children born in Britain have been discovered living in an abandoned Austrian wine cellar.

Emergency funding that helps struggling Dumfries and Galloway residents survive the cost of living crisis will likely be cut in half next year.

Anyone who has traveled to seaside resort areas around the world will recognize them, the obvious foreigners who spend their days approaching tourists with assorted trinkets to sell and are most often ignored or shooed away by Westerners. Precious few films have put such figures centerstage, but Drift does that and quite a bit more as it examines a young woman whose currently forlorn position in the world masks the very different sort of life to which she was once accustomed.

People struggling to pay their Council Tax during the cost of living crisis are being encouraged to check if they are eligible for money off their bill. The Council Tax Reduction (CTR) scheme is unique to Scotland and helps people on low incomes save an average of £750 a year on their bill.

More than 100 people attended a rally at the council headquarters as teachers went on strike in Dumfries and Galloway yesterday.

Plans for dramatic changes to one of Scotland’s first onshore windfarms have been lodged with the Scottish Government.

Dumfries and Galloway teachers are taking strike action again on Monday.

The cost of living crisis is set to continue impacting household budgets across the country into the first half of 2023 as a result of high inflation, soaring energy bills and ever-increasing prices at the supermarket. As the financial pressure mounts, especially post-Christmas, Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Scotland is encouraging those who are unable to pay bills to get in touch for immediate help and advice.

Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen is on a roll – his English-language debut Drift is premiering at Sundance Film Festival, he has Chinese-language drama The Breaking Ice being readied for festival play later this year, and several other directing projects in different languages at various stages of development and pre-production. 

Last week we left acclaimed children’s author and storyteller Tony Bonning singing songs and telling tales at Glenlochar playgroup, a chance pastime which was in time to become his vocation.

A new housing development aimed at maximising independent living has been officially opened in Livingston.

Nine charities are benefitting from more than 600 hours of voluntary service pledged through two pop-up Kinder Shops in Dumfries last year.

A book about the historic use of Gaelic in Galloway has been published, inspired by a conference held in New Galloway in 2018.

A fraudster conned taxpayers out of nearly £30,000 by pretending he was living alone despite being involved in a 20-year relationship.

Boris Johnson is living rent-free in a £20m property on one of the UK's most expensive streets. The former Prime Minister's London home is owned by the wife of a fellow Tory whose family and businesses have donated almost £10m to the Conservative party.

High rates of respiratory illness such as the flu are being recorded across Dumfries and Galloway.

A Dumfries and Galloway social worker was applauded by dozens of councillors and officials for her national achievements.

Paige Turley was unrecognisable in her latest TV appearance as she joined forces with a fellow Scots star.