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Police have issued an appeal after a teenager was reported missing from Killearn.
Courtney Leonard, 16, was last seen at around 7.30pm on Monday when she boarded a bus from the village to Glasgow.
Read it on the Daily Record website.
A 43-year-old motorcyclist has been seriously injured in a crash in Stirlingshire.
The man suffered “significant” head and chest injuries after his bike was in collision with a Volkswagen Passat on the A890, south of the junction with the B834 at Finnich Toll, Killearn.
Read it on the BBC News website.
A civil servant with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority who watched child porn to de-stress was spared jail today (Wednesday, May 4).
Craig Burke (37) was found with 11 “very graphic” pornographic videos of children when police raided his home near Glasgow.
Read it on the Kirkintilloch Herald website.
Killearn Community Futures Company’s Path Group has received £9,600 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for their project ‘Killearn Glen: Rediscovering the Community’s Lost Landscape’.
Norman McNab said: “I am delighted that the Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded us a grant which should give a fascinating insight into the Glen’s past. Our success was enabled by the very positive support of Stirling Council, who own the Glen, and the professional help of Green Aspirations Scotland.”
Read it on the Milngavie Herald website.
Just to remind everyone that “Loch Lomond: A Year in the Wild” is on Channel 5 tonight at 8:00pm.
It’s a documentary series about the wildlife of Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park in Scotland, filmed across one year. The winter is mild and wet, which is good news for some but bad news for others. Red deer are forced to higher ground, salmon have gone six months without food, mountain hares turn a conspicuous white, and squirrels kick their own young out of the nest.
Just to remind everyone that “Loch Lomond: A Year in the Wild” is on Channel 5 tonight at 8:00pm.
It’s a documentary series featuring the wildlife of Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park in Scotland, filmed across one year. Autumn is when stags compete to breed, osprey chicks begin a 3000-mile migration to West Africa, salmon return to the rivers where they were born and adders give birth to live young.
Series links and recordings of Channel 5 shows on Sky are set to be affected by technical changes.
The changes follow the removal of Channel 5’s advertising regions earlier this year. Although there has been just one national version of Channel 5 since 1st August 2015, individual data streams linked to the old regions have remained.
More information can be found @ http://www.a516digital.com/2015/11/tech-changes-to-channel-5-on-satellite.html.
Three sisters taking the food world by storm have celebrated the first anniversary of their arrival in Killearn.
Gillian, Nichola and Linsey Reith – otherwise known as Three Sisters Bake – held a swish cake and cocktails fundraiser in aid of the Beatson Cancer Charity last night (Thursday) to mark a successful year at Killearn Village Hall.
Read it on the Daily Record website.
As some of you may know Stirling Council are considering reducing or possibly cutting the evening bus service (number 10) which runs between Balfron, Killearn, Strathblane, Milngavie and Glasgow.
Please take a few minutes to fill in this survey — www.surveymonkey.com/r/supportedpublictransport. And pass the word around, not everyone is on this site so share among your other village friends!
A new direct train service is to be launched linking Stirling with London.
Virgin Trains has started selling tickets for the new return service, which commences from 14 December.
The service includes an early train leaving Stirling at 05:26, arriving at London King’s Cross at 10:52.
Read it on the BBC News website.
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