Plea for Dumfries and Galloway residents to get coronavirus booster before the bells

A patient spent more than 600 days in one of the region’s hospitals despite being given the all-clear to go home.

The furious leader of Dumfries and Galloway Council has revealed how her family were prevented from properly grieving during lockdown – while another Downing Street party was under way.

Schools and nurseries across the region have been invited to sign up to a free event for the January “Burns season” in Dumfries.

The furious leader of Dumfries and Galloway Council has revealed how her family were prevented from properly grieving during lockdown – while another Downing Street party was underway.

The Education Secretary has made clear the "absolute priority" to keep schools open amid soaring coronavirus cases as she urged pupils to test at home for the virus before heading back to classes.

Footage has emerged of police officers arresting drinkers gathered for a bash at a Glasgow pub in the minutes before the bells.

Scots children aged between 12 and 15 are being urged to get their second Covid-19 vaccine before returning to school from the Christmas holidays.

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.

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”.

The region’s only gliding club has been left counting the cost of Storm Arwen.

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.