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Last Updated: 22/11/2024 10:34:41
Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:24
Our Council is delighted with the announcement that we have successfully bid to round two of the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund (LUF). We have received notification that Dumfries and Galloway Council has been awarded £17,698,660 for our...
Thursday, 19 January 2023 12:43
With the recent appointment of WH Kirkwood as contractor for the Museum repair works, preparatory work for a site start in the new year is moving ahead successfully. The Council’s project team has been working alongside the contractor to make sure...
Thursday, 19 January 2023 11:35
Dumfries Ice Bowl is the venue for the first World Championship Ice Hockey tournament to be held in Dumfries and Galloway since 2019.
The International Ice Hockey Federation’s Women’s Under 18s Division II Group A Championship takes place at...
Wednesday, 18 January 2023 14:38
The redevelopment of the old school in Lockerbie has taken a step closer with the news that the Scottish Government is recommending that Dumfries and Galloway Council receive £2.6 million funding for the project.
The funding will enable the Council...
Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:12
A major milestone has been reached regarding the redevelopment of the former George Hotel, Stranraer with planning applications now submitted.
In partnership with the Stranraer Development Trust, the Council has engaged extensively with the community and...
Thursday, 12 January 2023 13:46
A significant permanent addition has been made to the collection at Robert Burns House, Dumfries – just in time for Burns Night. A two-volume set of poetry by Robert Burns ‘Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect’ (1793) has been...
Thursday, 12 January 2023 11:42
Dumfries and Galloway Council has set up a dedicated one-stop-shop webpage for households and businesses affected by the severe flooding that took place across Dumfries and Galloway in late December 2022.
It signposts to all the help and support...
Thursday, 12 January 2023 10:59
Early in 2022, the People’s Project and Dumfries and Galloway Council began a project that would result in improvements to an area of Maxwelltown in Dumfries. What began as an innocent conversation resulted in the car park at Glasgow Street and the...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 14:24
Our Council Plan sets out the vision and approach we take to ensure our services and activities deliver our ambitions from 2023 to 2028.
Our Council now needs your feedback so that Elected Members can finalise and agree a Council Plan for 2023-2028...
Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:52
At a meeting of Dumfries and Galloway Council on 15 December, councillors will receive the Dumfries and Galloway Council Armed Forces Champion Annual Report.
The report provides elected members with an overview of the activities undertaken by the...
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