The local MSP, who chairs the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Heart Disease and Stroke, Labour’s Colin Smyth, has been backing a campaign by charity the British Heart Foundation to have CPR training delivered in every secondary school in the country.
With recent events at a Dumfries secondary school, Galloway and West Dumfries Conservative MP Finlay Carson has called for “zero tolerance” of illegal substances in schools.
There’s nothing better than seeing a group of inner-city or otherwise disadvantaged kids out in the fresh air of the country, rather than having their heads stuck in iPads and mobile phones.
Fourteen regional arts projects across Dumfries and Galloway are set to share £75,000 from the Regional Arts Fund for projects taking place in 2018/19.
A Lockerbie Academy student is delighted to have been selected as the senior runner up in the science category of The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition.
The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has revealed that Scottish childcare funding rates are so low that nurseries are struggling to pay their staff the National Living Wage.