The Latest Breaking News from Galloway

Lochmaben man backs call for urgent talks to improve Dumfries and Galloway cancer services

Stuart Roxburgh currently has to travel to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary twice a year for check-ups

Daily Record · Feb 21, 2022

Dumfries and Galloway eyesore building owners asked if they'd be willing to sell to local community

Kirkcudbright's Royal Hotel is on a hit list of 44 dilapidated buildings drawn up by the Scottish Land Commission

Daily Record · Feb 21, 2022

Dumfries and Galloway school pupils to take part in controversial survey that poses intimate sexual questions

Children are to be given the chance to take part in the Scottish Government's health and wellbeing survey, which has been accused of having "wholly inappropriate" questions

Daily Record · Feb 18, 2022

Dramatic footage captures moment tree goes up in flames after collapsing on overhead line on Scots railway

The massive tree collided with 25,000V overhead power lines before bursting into flames at Beattock, Dumfries and Galloway earlier today.

Daily Record · Feb 17, 2022

Dumfries and Galloway curlers going for gold at Beijing Winter Olympics after semi-final win over USA

Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie and alternatie Ross Whyte, along with skip Bruce Mouat, will face Sweden in Saturday's final

Daily Record · Feb 17, 2022

Better spring ahead following dramatic drop in Covid hospitalisations in Dumfries and Galloway

The virus patient numbers were up to seven times higher this time last year

Daily Record · Feb 16, 2022

Sharp rise in healthcare-acquired infections in Dumfries and Galloway

The huge pressure NHS workers have been under during the pandemic has been blamed

Daily Record · Feb 16, 2022

Dumfries and Galloway residents face council tax increase to help plug £5 million budget shortfall

Cuts to services are also likely after officers admitted "very difficult decisions" will have to be made when the budget is being set

Daily Record · Feb 16, 2022

Dad 'had hour to live' when he was finally found after being engulfed by mudslide

Matt Halliday has called the Coastguard "his heroes" after they found him suffering from hypothermia after being caught in a mudslide during a walk to clear his head in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Daily Mirror · Feb 15, 2022

Scots dad 'had hour to live' after being engulfed by mudslide as he made chilling 999 call

Matt Halliday's morning stroll along The Corsewall Loop in Dumfriesand Galloway turned deadly after the weather worsened and the tide came in.

Daily Record · Feb 15, 2022