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Three elderly people have been the victims of theft in rural Stirlingshire within the last month.
Community constable Campbell Dunn said the cases happened at homes in Blanefield and Killearn.
Read it on the Stirling Observer website.
AN RAF base in Oxfordshire is trying to trace a local family with links to a Second World War hero.
Staff at RAF Benson are trying to trace Karen MacDonald whose father Flt Lt Duncan McCuaig DFC from Killearn was killed over Germany on September 28, 1944.
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POLICE in rural Stirlingshire have again issued advice to locals worried about telephone fraud.
They have issued a string of alerts in recent weeks, urging locals to be on the look-out for cold call scams involving bank details, computer software and shoddy workmanship.
Read it on the Stirling Observer website.
Just a quick reminder that the Killearn Country Market is on tomorrow (Sat 1st Oct 2011). In the Village Hall between 10am and 1pm.
More information can be found @
www.killearnsmarket.com.
Thieves used a large vehicle with a crane to steal a portable toilet and temporary office from a Stirling Council yard.
The items, worth thousands of pounds, were taken from a locked site on the A81 at Dumgoyne.
Read it on the BBC news website.
Confusion over legal rights to Killearn Village Hall is being ironed out to pave the way for a £1.6 million redevelopment by locals.
At a meeting of Stirling Council this week officers outlined the problems.
Read it on the Stirling Observer website.
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build bungalows on a field in Killearn are being withdrawn – but only temporarily.
Stirling Council’s housing service had submitted an application to build six semi-detached bungalows for the elderly on an area referred to as the turnip field.
Read it on the Stirling Observer website.
The police are warning residents in the Mugdock, Blanefield and Killearn areas to be vigilant following two break-ins at garden outhouses in larger isolated properties.
Garden power tools worth several thousands of pounds were stolen from two large country houses during the last week. At one location, a Jaguar car was also taken because the keys hadn’t been put somewhere safe.
Read it on the Milngavie Herald website.
Glengoyne Distillery has joined the green revolution with the opening of a wetlands area to process distillery waste.
The Killearn plant has invested £170,000 in the facility.
Read it on the Stirling Observer website.
A SHORTLIST of 10 local parks and playing fields has been drawn up for the chance to become protected against future development.
The nominations are for the Queen Elizabeth Fields Challenge, which seeks to retain and protect 2012 public playing fields and parks across the UK, including 214 in Scotland, which are seen as important community resources for local residents.
Read it on the Stirling Observer website.
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