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Last Updated: 09/10/2024 09:31:03

Wednesday, 09 October 2024 09:31
Dumfries and Galloway Council’s museums have lots of free family fun happening this half term break. These run from 11am to 3pm on Tuesday's at Annan Museum and Thursday's at Dumfries Museum. There’s no need to book, visitors can just drop...
Tuesday, 08 October 2024 12:05
Dumfries Museum is inviting visitors to discover the amazing astronomical history of the building and find out how to get the most out of star gazing at home. On the evening of Saturday 12October and repeated on Saturday 19October, there will be the...
Friday, 04 October 2024 16:40
A budget consultation mandate for 2025/26 and future years was agreed by elected members at a meeting of Full Council yesterday (Thursday 3 October). The consultation – where Dumfries and Galloway Council will ask people to fill in an online survey...
Wednesday, 02 October 2024 12:05
On Saturday 16 November, a regional Youth Work conference will bring together Youth Work practitioners from across Dumfries and Galloway. Working at the Coalface will take place at North West Community Campus, Dumfries from 10am to 5pm. The programme...
Wednesday, 02 October 2024 10:39
It is not only athletes in Paris winning Gold lately, two of our very own primary schools have been working incredibly hard to achieve the Sport Scotland School Sport Gold Award. Both Lochrutton Primary and Shawhead Primary, who are partnership schools,...
Tuesday, 01 October 2024 14:53
Residents of Dumfries and Galloway can now apply for their new Garden Waste Collection Service permit. The permit, priced at £40 per bin, provides access to regular garden waste collections from March to November 2025. This makes it easy to manage...
Wednesday, 25 September 2024 15:08
The Leader of Dumfries and Galloway Council, Councillor Gail Macgregor, has written to The Rt Hon Ed Milliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, and The Rt Hon Ian Murray, Secretary of State for Scotland, to express the disappointment...
Wednesday, 25 September 2024 13:51
Celebrating Nature in Dumfries and Galloway Over 80 young people taking part in citizen science learning workshops on water health and saltmarsh science. The ImMerse Festival helped build knowledge and a sense of pride in the merse (saltmarsh)...
Tuesday, 24 September 2024 13:42
Dumfries and Galloway Council has made fourteen grant awards to cultural and heritage projects across the region totalling more than £62,000. The funding is from the new Regional Cultural Fund 2024/25, and the grants programme has been made...
Tuesday, 24 September 2024 10:05
Dumfries and Galloway Council and the regionwide Dumfries and Galloway Poverty and Inequalities Partnership are supporting Challenge Poverty Week 2024 – the annual national awareness raising week led by Poverty Alliance Scotland. Challenge Poverty...
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