Castle Douglas.

The small town of Castle Douglas in the south of Scotland has been at the centre of a budget supermarket battle. It already has a Tesco and a Co-op but now Aldi wants to open a store. The proposals ...

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Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland’s fertile southwest corner, has historically attracted only a tiny proportion of the visitors who push north to Edinburgh and the Highlands — but those who do stick ...

A Paralympic gold medallist opened Castle Douglas’ new Aldi supermarket on Thursday. Jack Smith, part of Team GB’s successful wheelchair rugby side at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, was joined by pupils ...