If a town or city is to flourish, it needs the following:
1. A powerful local government.
2. Investment in new local railways, motorways and other forms of transport.
3. A police force that is run locally and not run from some faraway city.
4. Banks and shops that are local and not run from some faraway city.
5. No damaging interference in local affairs by a spooky elite living in faraway cities.
Gaza.
What is happening in Gaza is also happening in other parts of the world.
But we are not meant to criticise.
Dumfries and Galloway
1. Dumfries and Galloway Council is being asked to adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism.
Council leader Elaine Murray (Elaine Leaver), seconded by the Scottish National Party's Councillor Rob Davidson, want the Council to adopt the definition.
2. Israel's Mossad has a link to Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway.
Israeli Mossad agents are reported to have set up a CIA-Mossad drugs ring which flew heroin out of Lebanon.
A Pan Am report 'concluded that the Lockerbie bomb was targeted to kill the American Defence Intelligence Operatives who were going to Washington to present evidence of the CIA-Mossad drugs ring flying heroin out of Lebanon.'
Galloway House, the family seat of the Earls of Galloway from the 1740s until 1908
"The House of Stewart not only provided all of Scotland's monarchs from 1371 to 1603, and of the United Crowns of Scotland and England from 1603 to 1714, but held through time, 13 Dukedoms and 17 Earldoms in Great Britain.
"Stewarts also provided two British Prime Ministers, and the House of Stewart held Dukedoms in Italy, France and Spain.
"Although the Royal Stewart tartan is worn by HRH Queen Elizabeth II, the Chief of the Stewarts is Sir Randolph Stewart, 13th Earl of Galloway."
The Cairnholy tombs are situated on a hillside overlooking Wigtown Bay in Dumfries and Galloway.
There is evidence of ancient settlements at Luce Bay, in Dumfries and Galloway.
Some flint tools found in Scotland may date back to 12,000 BC
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home, Portrack House, near Dumfries.
There is a big gap between the rich and poor in Dumfries.
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Calvin Harris, the Scottish singer-songwriter and record producer, is from Dumfries and Galloway.
.. Gatehouse.
In 1795 gatehouse had four cotton mills, a brass foundry, brewery, brickworks, soap factory, tanneries - and double its present day population.
Gatehouse, like most of the towns in this area, has been neglected.
.. Cally Palace Hotel, Gatehouse.
Sarah, Duchess of York, is one of the people who have stayed at the Cally Palace Hotel, in Gatehouse.
.. Drumlanrig Castle.
In the kitchens of his house in Edinburgh, the Earl of Drumlanrig is said to have roasted a servant boy on a spit.
Kirkcudbright
Kirkcudbright is the best looking town in Dumfries and Galloway.
But, now, it has no town council and no railway.
Kirkcudbright
"A 4,700-acre (19 km2) area to the southeast of Kirkcudbright and extending to the coast of the Solway Firth, was acquired by the Army in 1942, as a training area for the D Day invasion.[12][13]
"The area remains in active use for live-firing exercises to this day. Part of the training area is the Dundrennan Range, a weapons development and testing range.
"The use of this range for the testing of depleted uranium shells has been controversial."[14][15]
"Kirkcudbright Tolbooth was built between 1625 and 1629 and served not only as the tolbooth, but also the council offices, the burg and sheriff courts, the criminal prison and the debtors' prison.
"One of the most famous prisoners was John Paul Jones, hero of the American navy, who was born in nearby Kirkbean." [8][9]
More photos here: CASTLE DOUGLAS; DOUGLAS DAY; STEWARTRY SHOW Dumfries
Dumfries does not have its own town council. .. Castle Douglas.
Castle Douglas no longer has a railway or a town council.
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