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By MARTIN WILLIAMS SANDBAGS were being provided in Ayrshire to protect properties from flooding yesterday as heavy rain resulted in traffic chaos in the southern half of Scotland.

DUMFRIES and Galloway Council has been warned it will be in breach of European law if it exercises its coastal salmon netting rights to the east of the mouth of the River Annan, at the end of the current lease in 2009.

By Aileen Streng, Manassas Journal Messenger, Va. Jul. 2--The Dumfries Police Department will soon be moving out of the basement of Town Hall and into rented space down the road.

NEWS WEST Lothian College is now one of only two colleges in Scotland approved to deliver Napier University's BA in business management, after it teamed up with the university to provide the degree-level course. It will be available from September.