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Whitesands Flood Warning

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By Euan Maxwell
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Whitesands Flood Warning

POLICE have closed off Whitesands car park in Dumfries as flooding hits the area.

They have also urged anyone parked by the river to move their vehicle in a post on Facebook alongside a video showing water spilling into the car park.

A flood warning was issued earlier by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which is now no longer in force.

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Ode to munitions girls

By Euan Maxwell | DNG24

Ode to munitions girls

‘IF’ is the title of this poem, written to mark the end of WWI munitions work at Mossband in Gretna in 1919. The only clue to the author are the initials DME, but it’s dedicated to the ‘girls of the cordite laboratory, Mossband. It goes:

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