• 7 months ago
Editor Jill Buchanan talks us through the headlines from The Falkirk Herald.
Transcript
00:00 Hello, I'm Gill Buchanan, the editor of the Falkirk Herald, and I'm here to tell you about some of the stories that are making the headlines in our print edition, which is on sale now.
00:09 Members of a model railway group were devastated when vandals targeted their premises in Bowness, with 30 years of painstaking work going up in smoke.
00:18 A donation page has already raised over £11,000, with cash coming in from all over the country.
00:24 Motorists will be able to use the long-awaited Denny Eastern access road from this week, after work was completed on the £9 million project two months ahead of schedule.
00:35 An anti-poverty strategy was being debated by councillors when they heard that one of the main issues to help people was to have access to an efficient bus service.
00:45 Residents and staff at Dorchester Court in Camlyn recently helped resident Fred Walker celebrate his 104th birthday.
00:53 And while Falkirk Council revealed it had appointed two new heads of education, it also announced that it was looking again at closing Blackness Primary School, which only has 11 pupils at the moment.
01:06 A man who carried out a vicious attack on a Link housing officer in Falkirk was jailed for eight years at the High Court in Livingston.
01:14 We've pictured galleries from a printmaking event in Callendar Park, the Falkirk Science Festival event in New Ravenside, and also the work of young artists in Larbert.
01:25 Historian Ian Scott has come up with the novel idea of a charity football match between Falkirk and Stennis Muir to mark their title-winning success, and it would replicate a game played at Brockville almost 60 years ago.
01:39 In sport, Grangemouth Triathlon Club is celebrating having not one but five members selected for the forthcoming European Championships.
01:47 All these stories and lots more are in a print edition which is on sale now and also online at www.falkirkherald.co.uk.
01:58 Thank you.
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