The Latest Breaking News from West Dunbartonshire

Unions call for West Dunbartonshire Council staff to receive £3k pay rise

Unite, Unison and GMB have submitted a pay claim to COSLA calling for a minimum wage of at least £12 per hour.

Daily Record · Jan 25, 2022

Dumbarton Castle to mark Queen's Jubilee by lighting gas beacon

West Dunbartonshire Council turned down the proposals for a second gas beacon at Clydebank as they felt one lit at the Royal castle would be sufficient.

Glasgow Live · Jan 24, 2022

Nearly one-third of West Dunbartonshire households living in fuel poverty

Around 29 percent of local families are struggling to pay their bills.

Daily Record · Jan 21, 2022

West Dunbartonshire Council urged to apply for share of £5m school ventilation funding

Concerns have been raised over advice to open windows to ventilate classrooms.

Daily Record · Jan 18, 2022

Scots pupils set up fake dating profiles to 'humiliate' teachers as police involvement threatened

Concerns have been raised at secondary schools over the use of TikTok with one school in West Dunbartonshire threatening that police would be called in.

Daily Record · Jan 17, 2022

Number of lollipop patrollers in West Dunbartonshire falls by 30 percent in a decade

Newly-published figures show that, in 2012, 60 patrollers were employed by West Dunbartonshire Council, but by last year that had fallen to 42.

Daily Record · Jan 17, 2022

Local politicians call for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign over lockdown parties

The SNP's Martin Docherty-Hughes and Labour's Jackie Baillie have both called on Boris Johnson to stand down, whilst Conservative councillor Sally Page said she agrees with Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross that the PM should resign.

Daily Record · Jan 17, 2022