The use of foodbanks in the region has shot up by 22 per cent in a single year, a situation described as “a scandal” by South Scotland Labour MSP Colin Smyth.
The owner of a Kirkcudbrightshire castle was defiant this week in the face of criticism for offering her £2m home as a raffle prize but then giving the winner a £65,000 cash prize instead.
Britain hadn’t even JOINED the EU, the Beatles were top of the charts and Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister when Stranraer’s Jim McColm began what would become a lifetime of caring for others.
A project aimed at transforming approaches to local health and social care has been drilling down into a series of specific topics – with ideas for tests of change now beginning to take shape.
A 96 years-old RAF Bomber Command veteran from Castle Douglas has reeled back the years, overcoming the sight loss which robbed him of one of his great pleasures, that of reading.
Almost 300 hard-pressed local people have been helped out of dilemmas such as being evicted from their homes in the past year by a dedicated team of council employees. It has also saved the local authority over half-a-million pounds.
New figures reveal that more than £76 million of National Lottery funding has been invested in Dumfries and Galloway since the National Lottery began almost 25 years ago.
Dumfries and Galloway Schools Pipe Band were crowned champions of the Junior B category at the 2019 Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships held in Livingston,
Sharing a birth year with Jeremy Corbyn and Twiggy, Kirkcudbright Rotary has turned 70 and held a party to celebrate the milestone of seven decades of service to the local community.
