Wigtownshire

/ ˈwɪɡtənˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

1. (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, now part of Dumfries and Galloway

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"Without this investment, and without DGC Buses stepping in to run services throughout Wigtownshire as operator of last resort, this part of the region was at risk of having no services running at all," it said.

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Caitlin and Jamie Faulkner, from Wigtownshire, are at the end of their honeymoon in Marrakesh.

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It started in the tough hours of Saturday morning in Stranraer southwest of Glasgow, in the historical parish of Inch and the historical county of Wigtownshire, on the shores of Loch Ryan, near the old ferry route through the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland.

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A keen rugby player in his youth he played for his school team and Wigtownshire RFC before joining the merchant navy.

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The new B.1.1.7 variant has been identified as being part of the outbreak in Wigtownshire, which grew from 64 cases on Boxing Day to 142.

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