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VOLUNTEERS who run Killearn Village Hall have pulled off a coup by persuading one of Scotland’s top chefs to take over the catering there.
Simon Whitley has just left his job as executive chef at the Hilton Worldwide in Glasgow to run the coffee shop and a ‘pop-up’ restaurant at the recently-refurbished hall.
Read it on the Daily Record website.
The community was thrilled to see inside the newly transformed village hall in Killearn when it opened last weekend.
Ownership of the dilapidated old town hall was transferred from Stirling Council to Killearn Community Futures Company (KCFC) at the end of 2012 and building work started in May the same year after they secured a £1.5 million grant plus £500,000 in donations and other grants.
Read it on the Milngavie Herald website.
After years in the planning the wraps come off the new state of the art Killearn Village Hall this weekend.
A development group was formed way back in 2008 to look at the possibilities of a revamp with considerable resaerch undertaken over a two year period including visits to other halls and youth clubs across Scotland and meetings and presentations within the village itself.
Read it on the Stirling Observer website.
IT’S a fair swap. The Killers will bring the sunshine and we’ll give them our whisky.
OK, so the last week has been lovely and hot anyway but just to be sure, drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr has vowed to pocket the Las Vegas sunshine, “divide it into my hand luggage and bring it to Scotland. That’s a fair trade”.
All he wants in return is whisky.
And he’s not even asking for a freebie. Instead he’s planning to go to the Glengoyne Distillery, near Killearn, Stirlingshire, on Monday.
Read it on the Daily Record website.
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