Dumfries and Galloway health bosses warn of difficult and challenging winter

Council finance chiefs are proposing to use Covid-19 response cash to ease cost of living pressures in the region.

A surveillance network has been set up to monitor migrating geese and wintering waterbirds.

The huge achievements of people from the region with additional support needs have been celebrated.

The ongoing lengthy waits in A&E departments have been described as a “humanitarian crisis”.

Posties have cancelled three days of strike action that were due to begin this week.

Borgue residents have hit out at the news that they’ll have to wait another year to receive superfast broadband.

Help is at hand for hard-pressed households in the Glenkens as the cost of living crisis bites ever deeper.

Florence Pugh is opening up about her early days as she was an emerging actor in Hollywood. The Don’t Worry Darling star said that after landing a television pilot as a popstar, her bosses wanted to make changes to her apparance.

Plans for a 27 turbine scheme at Whiteneuk near Corsock have been ditched.

A former councillor who is leading a housing development in Dalbeattie has won a second battle with local residents.

The region’s over-50s are being urged to arrange their flu and coronavirus vaccines.

Less than gleeful relationships. Lea Michele made headlines in June 2020 when Samantha Marie Ware, who played Jane Hayward on season 6 of Glee, accused her of bullying.

Paul Feig, director of such mega-hits as Bridesmaids, Spy, The Heat, Ghostbusters and A Simple Favor, has branched out into the fairytale genre with The School for Good and Evil, which hit Netflix this week.

EXCLUSIVE: George Gallo (The Comeback Trail) is teaming with Green Book Oscar winner Nick Vallelonga to produce The Accidental Gangster, a new thriller based on reformed gangster Orlando ‘Ori’ Spado’s bestselling autobiography of the same name. The former will also direct from a script by the author’s son Anthony Spado and David Steenhoek.

Haley Lu Richardson knows a thing or two about horrible bosses—and working with them helped shift her perspective and re-define her future in a big way. Anyone who’s lived a little knows that no matter what course your life is on, everything can change in an instant.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Opening statements began on Wednesday in a civil trial against Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, who has been accused of raping a publicist nearly a decade ago.  Haleigh Breest, who filed a lawsuit against Haggis in 2017, alleges that the screenwriter and director forced her to perform oral sex and then raped her after she reluctantly agreed to have a drink at his Soho apartment following a movie premiere. Her attorneys asserted to jurors that the director used his fame and position in Hollywood to pressure Breest, who was 26 at the time. “The defendant, Paul Haggis, is a famous movie director and screenwriter. He’s won two Oscars. He’s talented. He’s powerful. He’s also manipulative,” the plaintiff’s lawyer Zoe Salzman told the jurors in a Lower Manhattan courtroom. “The evidence in this case will show Mr. Haggis used his storytelling skills and fame to prey on, manipulate and attack vulnerable young women in the film industry.”

A series of action steps are to be taken to ensure that Dumfries and Galloway Council is well prepared for winter kicking in.