Sharp drop in number of Dumfries and Galloway residents seeking work and claiming benefits

Councillors believe it would be “a travesty” if Galloway lost its biosphere status.

Dog owners are being urged to make sure their pets are under control when they’re in the countryside.

Healthcare workers have accepted a new pay offer.

It is estimated that hundreds of dangerous falls by elderly people have been prevented in Dumfries and Galloway thanks to a valuable community project.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car was awarded with best feature at the Asian Film Awards (March 12), along with prizes for best editing and best original music. The multiple award winning Japanese drama premiered at Cannes film festival in 2021 and also won the Oscar for Best International Feature last year.  

It is estimated that hundreds of dangerous falls by elderly people have been prevented in Dumfries and Galloway, thanks to a valuable community project.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Michael Caine recently told The Spectator (via IndieWire) that it’s “bullshit” his 1964 war epic “Zulu” was cited on a recent United Kingdom counter-terrorism report. The controversial Prevent strategy flagged a handful of popular films, British sitcoms, works of literature and more as possible sources of inspiration for terrorist groups and far-right extremists. “Zulu” was cited alongside “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” “Brave New World,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and the BBC’s original “House of Cards,” among other titles. “That is the biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard,” Caine said bluntly when told the news about “Zulu” being classified as a “key text” for “white nationalists and supremacists.”

Pat Sharp's ill-judged joke about a woman's 't**s' has seen the Fun House star booted from his radio job, it has been reported.

A rent hike of 6.5 per cent is being imposed by a social landlord in Dumfries and Galloway next month.

Forecasts of heavy snow for Galloway don’t often materialise – but this time it could be different.

The Beads of Courage UK charity has expanded to include the oncology and haematology units at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.

EXCLUSIVE: Pat Sharp, the British presenter known for his work on Top Of The Pops and Fun House, has said he is “truly sorry” after making a lewd remark to a woman while hosting an events industry awards show.

A takeover of power within Dumfries and Galloway Council has led to even more political unrest and division.

Around 300 police officers in Dumfries and Galloway are to carry Naloxone on duty for use in a potentially life-threatening overdose situation.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Michelle Yeoh was already an actor star overseas by 1997 thanks to popular Hong Kong movies like “Police Story 3: Super Cop” and “Supercop 2,” but it wasn’t until the James Bond tentpole “Tomorrow Never Dies” opened that year that Yeoh had her Hollywood breakthrough. The actor played Wai Lin, a Chinese spy who is highly skilled in marital arts and bucks every “damsel in distress” and “Bond girl” stereotype. “The first movie I did after I came to America was ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ with Pierce Brosnan,” Yeoh recently told People magazine. “James Bond at that point had only been known as macho, and the girls were just the ones with cutesy names.”

Amber Gill has posted a series of snaps on her Instagram, including a few from a romantic getaway to Paris with girlfriend Jen Beattie .The holiday snaps were amongst a number of another pics which Amber uploaded with the caption: “February you were cute jeans x” Jen captured Amber wearing a headset and struggling to figure out how to work a Nintendo DS as the pair took a tour around the Louvre. Another pic shows Amber smiling cheekily back at the camera, having successfully figured out how to work the device.The pair also enjoyed cocktails at a rooftop bar with stunning views of the French capital.The third pic of the bunch shows the pair enjoying a glass of fizz and holding hands across the table.

Controversial plans to develop land on the Crichton Estate have been submitted to the council.

Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts announced today that Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Two Popes) will become its next Marion Knott Distinguished Artist.

EXCLUSIVE: A musical stage adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, originally co-created in 2006 by Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical director Matthew Warchus, is headed to the English countryside.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer One of Austin’s hometown filmmakers is bringing his next movie to SXSW. Director Robert Rodriguez will screen a work-in-progress cut of his crime thriller “Hypnotic,” starring Ben Affleck, for fans at the SXSW Film Festival in the Texas capital on March 12. In the film, written by Rodriguez and Max Borenstein (“Godzilla vs. Kong,” HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”), Affleck plays a detective who is investigating a series of inexplicable crimes while searching for his missing daughter, whose disappearance is somehow involved with a secret government program.