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• MASSIVE CROWDS FLOCKED TO SEE AYRSHIRE AIR SHOW September 9, 2024
  The event saw huge crowds visit a very sunny Low Green in Ayr on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September.  Airshow attendees watched hours of exhilarating aerial displays and got to enjoy a great range of activities and entertainment. This was followed by a super Sunday Funday on Ayr High Street to round off the […]
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• Emma Puts Her Heart Into Defibrillator Campaign September 9, 2024
  Five years after Emma Currie from Dumfries’ last fundraising acheivement of building the first inclusive park in Dumfries in Cargenbridge she is at it again with a new project. This time Emma is hoping to raise funds to ensure that all 21 primaries in Dumfries and  surrounding areas that dont already have a defibrillator get […]
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• South Scotland Golden Eagle Project Needs Extra Funding to Fly September 9, 2024
  An award-winning pioneering charity initiative, which has successfully restored a previously low population of golden eagles in the south of Scotland to record numbers, has launched an urgent public appeal to help secure its long-term future and put plans in place to reintroduce golden eagles to other areas of the UK where golden eagles are […]
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• Inaugural Riding Of The Dumfries Missing Links Planned To Highlight Gaps In Active Travel Provision September 6, 2024
  Cyclists will be taking a cue from local traditions next week with a demonstration planned on Friday 13th September to ride the ‘Missing Links’ in Dumfries’s active travel network. Gathering at 5 pm at the train station, the group will ride a symbolic circuit of the gaps in provision, ranging from cycle paths that end […]
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• Dumfries & Gifhorn Celebrate 30 Years Of Twinning September 5, 2024
  A special ceremony to mark the 30th Anniversary of the twinning link between Dumfries and Gifhorn in Germany is taking place this Sunday, 8 September at 2.30pm at the Plainstanes, Dumfries. Members of the Nithsdale Twinning Association, Friends of Gifhorn, the council’s Nithsdale Area Committee and former Provosts of Dumfries along with other invited guests […]
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• Dumfries and Galloway Gets Set For Doors Open Days September 5, 2024
  Churches, libraries and old houses are among the locations the public can visit for free on the 7th & 8th September Twenty one amazing buildings, organisations and groups are joining this year’s Doors Open Days Festival this weekend. In Dumfries, visitors can access the historic Rosefield Mills, the last surviving large-scale Victorian industrial buildings, sited […]
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• 162 Children Attend The Kilsture Forest Summer School September 5, 2024
  A series of 12 public events were held in Kilsture Forest in July, giving an opportunity for children to have fun in one of the largest woodlands in the Machars. The programme offered 24 hours of ranger-led Activities in all, varying from storytelling through to an introduction to bushcraft and den making. The 12 events […]
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• International Overdose Awareness Day Remembered At Midsteeple September 5, 2024
  NHS Dumfries and Galloway and third-sector partners gathered together in the week of International Overdose Awareness Day (31 August) to commemorate lives lost in Dumfries and Galloway.   Representatives from NHS Dumfries and Galloway Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service (SDAS), We Are With You and other partners, joined to place 12 pairs of empty shoes […]
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• More Support As Inspiring Creative Writing Project Goes From Strength To Strength September 5, 2024
  A project that supports young authors in the Kirkcudbright area of Dumfries and Galloway has received further funding. The project, which helps young people in Kirkcudbright to develop their creative writing skills by working with writers, has received £500 from the Galloway Association of Glasgow, the second time the organisation has supported the project. It […]
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• Langholm and Canonbie Teachers Get Ready for Great North Run September 5, 2024
  A group of teachers Langholm and Canonbie Schools are running in the Great North Run on Sunday for children’s charity NSPCC.   The NSPCC is the leading children’s charity fighting  to end child abuse in the UK. They help children who have been abused to rebuild their lives, protect those at risk and find the […]
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