Stirling

City centre hit by spate of thefts

POLICE have appealed for witnesses after two housebreakings and a bike theft in Stirling. Read

Support for powerline

AN influential group of MSPs has called for the Beauly to Denny power line project to be approved. Read

Trossachs and Teith

Lochside clean-up

MORE than 70 bags of litter – and even a discarded tent full of rubbish – were gathered up on Loch Lomondside recently. Read

Callander to Kilimanjaro

GARY BARLOW, Cheryl Cole, Ronan Keating and co famously undertook an inspirational charity trek up Mount Kilimanjaro earlier this year. Read

Forth and Endrick

Pharmacy plan fails

AN APPLICATION for a new pharmacy in Drymen has been rejected by NHS Forth Valley’s pharmacy practices committee (PPC). Read

Whisky firm is expanding

STORAGE facilities at the Glengoyne Distillery near Strathblane look set to be extended. Read

Dunblane and Bridge of Allan

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Crackdown on bogus workmen

ANOTHER operation targeting bogus workmen has been carried out, this time around the Callander, Aberfoyle and Dunblane areas. Read

Church club set to fly the flag

YOUNGSTERS at a training afternoon for Radio Rainbow, the Dunblane churches’ holiday club, received a surprise gift. Read

Bannockburn

Pony deaths shut down RDA centre

A RIDING school which specialises in providing lessons for disabled and special needs children and adults has been devastated by the death of four ponies. Read

Boxer fined for fight in street

Police saw approximately 15 males fighting with each other, two of these with their shirts off. Read

Clackmannanshire

Clacks staff missed by Diageo axe

DIAGEO plans to transfer workers from a Clacks cooperage to a new base nearby. Read

Starved puppies kept in a cage

A TIP-off that a dog owner might be neglecting a litter of puppies led police to find three undernourished pooches in a cage. Read

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