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 SNP & TORIES BLOCK HOLOCAUST EDUCATION SCHEME FUNDING |
A successful holocaust education programme which hashelped school pupils from Dumfries and Galloway participate invisits to the Auschwitz concentration camp could be scrapped afterthe SNP Scottish Exe...
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| MP PLEDGES TO WORK WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO FIGHT PHONE BOX
CLOSURES |
Local MP Russell Brown has pledged his support tocommunities in Dumfries and Galloway who intend to fight BTproposals to close dozens of phone boxes across theregion.The local MP has written to Commun...
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| NEW ABBEY ROAD SAFETY MEASURES “WOEFULLY INADEQUATE” SAYS LABOUR |
Two local Labour politicians who are campaigning forroad safety measures in New Abbey, have branded a newly installedtraffic island in the village as “woefullyinadequate”.Dumfries and Galloway Cou...
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| MP’s PRESSURE COULD FORCE SNP U-TURN OVER BUS FARE HIKE |
After pressure from local MP Russell Brown, the SNPScottish Executive has confirmed they will review a decision whichhas forced bus companies in Dumfries and Galloway to hike theirfares.The bus servic...
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| MP CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO UNFAIR FUEL PROFITEERING |
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown is urging theOffice of Fair Trading to investigate whether fuel retailers haveexploited people’s concerns about fuel supplies during theGrangemouth refinery st...
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| MP WELCOMES GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT TO MORE HELP FOR LOW PAID AND
PENSIONERS |
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown has welcomed theannouncement yesterday (23 April) that the Labour government plansto do even more to help low paid workers and pensioners, inresponse to concerns...
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| MP CALLS FOR “DUAL APPROACH” TOWARDS SAFER ROADS AS EXECUTIVE
FIGURES HIGHLIGHT A77 AS DEADLY ROAD |
Local MP Russell Brown has called for more action on adual approach of road improvements and safer driving after ScottishExecutive figures highlighted the A77 as one of Scotland’sdeadliest roads.Sco...
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| MP BLASTS “SPINELESS” SNP MINISTERS AS EXECUTIVE OFFICIALS CONFIRM
WATERFRONT WILL BE DOWNGRADED |
Local MP Russell Brown has branded SNP ministers“spineless” after they left it to officials to confirm that theywill ditch the Stranraer Waterfront regeneration scheme as anational project.Dumfrie...
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| MP HAILS QUEENS’ “HAMPDEN HEROES” |
Local MP Russell Brown has hailed Queen of the South’s“Hampden Heroes” after the Dumfries side’s unbelievable 4-3 victoryover Premier League club Aberdeen, to take them into their firstever Sc...
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| TOWN CENTRE REGENERATION PLAN COLLAPSE A “DEVASTATING BLOW” SAYS
LABOUR |
Local Labour politicians have described the news thatdevelopers Centros Miller have pulled out plans that could haveseen a multi million pound re-development of Dumfries town centreas a devastating bl...
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| WARM WORDS BUT NO ACTION FROM TORY COUNCIL ON CRUMBLING ROADS SAYS
MP |
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown believes theTory-run council will be guilty of delivering warm words but noaction on the declining state of roads in our region unless itjoins him in demanding m...
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| SNP REGENERATION CASH PROPOSAL IS “ASTONISHINGLY WOEFUL” SAYS MP |
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown has described anSNP Scottish Executive cash proposal of less than £400,000 todeliver every local regeneration project in the region as“astonishingly woeful”...
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| NEW RAIL SERVICES WELCOME BUT JOURNEY TIMES MUST BE QUICKER SAYS MP |
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown has welcomed aScotRail franchise deal which will create additional rail servicesfrom Dumfries, but he believes more must be done to reduce journeytimes to and fr...
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| NEW PROPOSALS TO AXE ‘LOOKAROUND’ PROVES ITV IS IGNORING LOCAL
PEOPLE SAYS MP |
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown has accused ITVof ignoring local people after they announced revised regional newsrestructuring proposals which will still see local news coverage inour region s...
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| MP URGES LOCAL ‘BEVIN BOYS’ TO CLAIM SPECIAL BADGE OF HONOUR |
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown is calling onlocal ‘Bevin boys’ to come forward and claim their specialcommemorative badges to honour them for keeping the coalfieldsrunning during the war.I...
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| LOTTERY FUND CASH BOOST FOR HOMESTART WIGTOWNSHIRE |
Local MP Russell Brown has welcomed a massive £53,000 cash investment from the Big Lottery Fund in Home-Start Wigtownshire to help support vulnerable families in Newton Stewart and the Mac...
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| MP TO VISIT DUNDRENNAN MOD RANGE FOLLOWING URGENT TALKS WITH DEFENCE MINISTER |
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown will go on a site visit of the MOD’s Dundrennan testing range after he held urgent talks with a UK defence minister over the renewed testing of depl...
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| MINISTER MUST ACT OVER CRAYFISH |
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown is demanding a Scottish Executive minister acts to halt the decline in the tourist trade in Galloway, which has been triggered by a massive increase i...
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| BUDGET DELIVERS “GOOD NEWS FOR PENSIONERS, FAMILIES AND CHILDREN” SAYS MP |
Local MP Russell Brown has described Alistair Darling’s first budget as Chancellor as “good news for pensioners, families and children” after he set out measures to tackle child povert...
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| MINISTER SNUBS STRANRAER BUSINESS COMMUNITY |
Local MP Russell Brown has today hit-out at SNP ministers who have refused to meet local businessmen fearing for the future of the Waterfront regeneration project. The MP wrote to SNP Finan...
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A successful holocaust education programme which hashelped school pupils from Dumfries and Galloway participate invisits to the Auschwitz concentration camp could be scrapped afterthe SNP Scottish Exe...
Local MP Russell Brown has pledged his support tocommunities in Dumfries and Galloway who intend to fight BTproposals to close dozens of phone boxes across theregion.The local MP has written to Commun...
Two local Labour politicians who are campaigning forroad safety measures in New Abbey, have branded a newly installedtraffic island in the village as “woefullyinadequate”.Dumfries and Galloway Cou...
After pressure from local MP Russell Brown, the SNPScottish Executive has confirmed they will review a decision whichhas forced bus companies in Dumfries and Galloway to hike theirfares.The bus servic...
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown is urging theOffice of Fair Trading to investigate whether fuel retailers haveexploited people’s concerns about fuel supplies during theGrangemouth refinery st...
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown has welcomed theannouncement yesterday (23 April) that the Labour government plansto do even more to help low paid workers and pensioners, inresponse to concerns...
Local MP Russell Brown has called for more action on adual approach of road improvements and safer driving after ScottishExecutive figures highlighted the A77 as one of Scotland’sdeadliest roads.Sco...
Local MP Russell Brown has branded SNP ministers“spineless” after they left it to officials to confirm that theywill ditch the Stranraer Waterfront regeneration scheme as anational project.Dumfrie...
Local MP Russell Brown has hailed Queen of the South’s“Hampden Heroes” after the Dumfries side’s unbelievable 4-3 victoryover Premier League club Aberdeen, to take them into their firstever Sc...
Local Labour politicians have described the news thatdevelopers Centros Miller have pulled out plans that could haveseen a multi million pound re-development of Dumfries town centreas a devastating bl...
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown believes theTory-run council will be guilty of delivering warm words but noaction on the declining state of roads in our region unless itjoins him in demanding m...
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown has welcomed aScotRail franchise deal which will create additional rail servicesfrom Dumfries, but he believes more must be done to reduce journeytimes to and fr...
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown has accused ITVof ignoring local people after they announced revised regional newsrestructuring proposals which will still see local news coverage inour region s...
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown is calling onlocal ‘Bevin boys’ to come forward and claim their specialcommemorative badges to honour them for keeping the coalfieldsrunning during the war.I...
Local MP Russell Brown has welcomed a massive £53,000 cash investment from the Big Lottery Fund in Home-Start Wigtownshire to help support vulnerable families in Newton Stewart and the Mac...
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown will go on a site visit of the MOD’s Dundrennan testing range after he held urgent talks with a UK defence minister over the renewed testing of depl...
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown is demanding a Scottish Executive minister acts to halt the decline in the tourist trade in Galloway, which has been triggered by a massive increase i...
Local MP Russell Brown has described Alistair Darling’s first budget as Chancellor as “good news for pensioners, families and children” after he set out measures to tackle child povert...