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West Dunbartonshire Council leader ‘must’ resign

THE latest damning report from Audit Scotland, where the lack of “strategic leadership” on West Dunbartonshire Council is once again singled out as a major weakness, surely makes it imperative that the council leader, Councillor Iain Robertson, and the Chief Executive, David McMillan, must now both resign their positions which are completely untenable.Read

Let’s play it fair in West Dunbartonshire election

A FUTURE fair for all. But not for West Dunbartonshire in the forthcoming nominations for the Labour candidate.Read

Gender issue over West Dunbartonshire Labour MP candidate

SOMEONE with knowledge of the local Labour Party may wish to cast light on the following.Read

Your words, Mr Heaney

BILL Heaney claims I got things “confused” in my letter of February 26 (Lennox Herald letters, March 5).Read

Embrace the condition of Overtoun House

WHAT is Rose Harvie’s agenda or vendetta regarding Overtoun House, flying under the sinister banner of ‘Community Activists’?Read

Vale Academy increased charges were to be expected

THE Scottish Socialist Party predicted that when the SNP privatised the Vale Academy the costs to small local sports clubs would rocket. The SNP denied this as scaremongering at the time.Read

Won’t somebody think of the children?

NEW Labour banged on about teenage pregnancies. Bad idea, they said.Read

Has McFall’s tenure been a success?

ALMOST one quarter of Scotland’s Labour MPs are standing down, only a few months before the general election. Are they jumping, or are they being pushed?Read

Dumbarton former editor’s campaign for more investment in newspapers

YOU will be aware that I have recently been campaigning for more investment in journalism in Scottish weekly papers, which are in danger of losing local and national government public notice advertising to the internet.Read

Help save the planet by supporting Earth Hour

WE are pupils from St Mary’s Primary School in Alexandria and we are writing to tell your readers about Earth Hour.Read

Recycling rates must improve in West Dunbartonshire

IT is not often that I find myself agreeing with Councillor Martin Rooney (Bin pick-up is set to be every two weeks, Lennox Herald, February 19).Read

Bonhill’s a ‘pig sty’ due to fly-tipping

JONATHAN McColl and May Smillie, SNP Leven Ward councillors, voted in favour of a new charge to be implemented for special uplifts. I personally think this is a disgrace, and I can only see it as a way of the council trying to profit.Read

New Labour hypocrisy over local newspapers

I WRITE regarding Councillor George Black’s concerns about party political interference with the Lennox Herald in last week’s letters page.Read

Fight goes on for West Dunbartonshire council workers

THANK you for the coverage you have given the joint trade union campaign against the cuts in the council’s budget. This is an example of the importance of local papers in highlighting the concerns of the local community.Read

SNP priorities are all wrong

IT seems Gil Paterson is another politician who views the SNP record on education in West Dunbartonshire through rose tinted glasses. (Letters, February 12).Read

Thanks to those who helped me after supermarket accident

I WOULD like to thank all those who came to my assistance after my accident on Monday, December 7 in the car park at Asda Dumbarton.Read

SNP man is the weakest link

GIL Paterson MSP’s absurd attempt to rewrite history cannot lie unchallenged (Letters, February 12).Read

Row over West Dunbartonshire schools

I FELT compelled to reply to the ridiculous letter from Gil Paterson MSP published last week. Mr Paterson shamelessly claimed credit for the SNP building the three new secondary schools and three new primary schools in West Dunbartonshire.Read

Big thanks to Janie for tyre change

I AM writing to say thank you to Janie for her kindness to me on Wednesday, February 3, at 11am at Morrisons car park, Dumbarton. She was an angel who, in spite of the bitter cold, changed my flat tyre for me.Read

Ode to Ben Lomond

HERE is a beautiful and strong piece of poetry, written by an unknown author, which I hope you can publish.Read

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