Hightae

13°COvercast

• Today: 16° / 11° · 20% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:38Sunset 19:41

13h 2m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: St Andrew’s Day, Mon 30 Nov

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · South Lanarkshire Lanark, United Kingdom

192 reported road collisions (2024)

77 killed or seriously injured · 264 casualties · 13.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

7 food businesses within 2 miles

• 2 passed
• 0 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Lockerbie (5.3 km)
• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£166,891 average▲ 2.7% YoY

Across Dumfries and Galloway · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 166.9p · Morrisons (11.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Morrisons (11.8 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

4 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: McJerrow Car Park, Lockerbie (5.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

145,490 residents in Dumfries and Galloway

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 57%
• 65+: 29%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in Scotland

5% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 9% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

David Mundell

Conservative

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

Source: UK Parliament

SNP / Labour / Independent / Liberal Democrat coalition

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,605 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£723 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,835 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

100% low-carbon electricity

Wind 69% · Nuclear 31%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.7

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s296 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership277 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office238 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills161 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Reduce Vehicle Excise Duty by 50% for vehicles aged 20 to 39 years116 local signatures · 54,314 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Heck, Dumfries and Galloway · 1.3 km

  Heck is a hamlet in the local government area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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  Dryfe Water · 2.8 km

  Dryfe Water is a river in Scotland about 18 miles in length which flows into the River Annan at grid reference NY 107 820, near Lockerbie. It starts at NT 170 041 on the southern slopes of Loch Fell, near Moffat, and…

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  Castle Loch, Lochmaben · 2.8 km

  Castle Loch is a shallow eutrophic loch covering an area of around 100 hectares in the town of Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The ruined Lochmaben Castle lies at the southern end of the loch.

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  Hallmuir Ukrainian Chapel · 3.6 km

  The Hallmuir Ukrainian Chapel is a chapel built at a Hallmuir prisoner of war camp near Lockerbie in Scotland. After the Second World War, this camp housed Ukrainian soldiers from the Galician Division of the Waffen S…

• Old Lochmaben Castle · 3.6 km

  Lochmaben Castle was a 12th-century castle on the spit of land between Loch Kirk and Loch Castle, in Lochmaben, Scotland.

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  Lochmaben · 3.8 km

  Lochmaben is a small town and civil parish in Scotland, and site of a castle. It lies 4 miles (6 km) west of Lockerbie, in Dumfries and Galloway. By the 12th century the Bruce family had become the local landowners an…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)