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Reports called for on shoplifter

A SHOPLIFTER who made off with clothes from a Stirling store had his sentence deferred for reports earlier this week.Read

No Payback for MP Anne

STIRLING MP Anne McGuire has come out unscathed in the inquiry over MPs’ expenses.Read

Scots pie given makeover

A FIRM favourite of football fans up and down the country has been given a healthier makeover with the help of a Kippen butcher.Read

Fined for hotel fracas

A FRACAS in a Stirling hotel led to a court appearance this week.Read

Help for Broken Hearts

VALENTINE’S Day seems to be everywhere.Read

Woman jailed after crimewave

A DRUG addict stole jewellery from a house where she worked as a cleaner.Read

Man lunged at father

POLICE arrested a Stirling man as he tried to attack his father.Read

Fine for van-driver

HELPING a neighbour move some property landed a van-driver a £300 fine this week.Read

Beth’s ‘green’ logo win

TALENTED MacLaren High School pupil Beth Scott merged her artistic talents with her “green” awareness to win a competition to design a logo for Callander and Climate Change.Read

Camping Ban Bid to Save the Bonny Banks

CAMPING could be banned in some areas around Loch Lomond.Read

Appeal after statues stolen

FOUR life-sized solid marble statues of lions have been stolen from a yard in Dennyloanhead.Read

Balfron Set for Slowdown Around Schools

TRAFFIC calming measures and a 20 mile per hour speed limit are being introduced around Balfron’s high school and primary school.Read

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Siddique’s offences were only “thought crime”

THE law should go after real terrorists and not those simply committing “thought crime”, said the Alva student released after appeal this week.Read

Break-ins in Killearn

POLICE are asking householders in Killearn to be vigilant following two break-ins this month.Read

No council tax rise in Clacks

COUNCIL tax has been frozen in Clackmannanshire for another year.Read

Vomiting bug closes five hospital wards

FIVE hospital wards in Stirling and Bannockburn have been hit by a diarrhoea and vomiting bug.Read

Gymnastics Club Brings the Sport Back to Stirling

A FAIR part of my married life has been spent with my husband elsewhere.Read

Scottish Government happy to bury the health case, but not the power line

Dear Editor, – Jim Mather’s approval of the Beauly to Denny power line failed to mention one of the largest issues for objectors, namely the adverse health effects associated with power line electric and magnetic fields (EMFs). The three areas requiring further mitigation are to be based on visual mitigation alone.Read

New Debate Over Auction Mart Site

EXPANSION plans for Stirling Agricultural Centre look set to spark new debate.Read

Dancer Emily Leaps Into TV Show Final

ALL eyes will be on Killin’s dancing dynamo Emily Crow this Sunday as she bids for a £100,000 talent show prize.Read

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