Website changes

We have just made some changes to the website.

  • Local, sports and website news can now be found on the main page.
  • The news and sports section been removed from the menu.
  • Weather now has it’s own section on the website.
  • We’re also going to be making much more use of facebook for posting details about local events.

Digital re-tune reminder (25th May 2011)

Stage 2 of the digital switchover happens on 25th May 2011, if you use the Darvel transmitter.

All the remaining analogue channels will switch to digital and the remaining digital channels will become available. This means that:

  • If you haven’t switched to digital, you will lose your TV service.
  • The time of day you switch will depend on which relay transmitter you are watching.

If you have Freeview, BT Vision or Top Up TV you’ll need to re-tune your equipment again.

More information can be found at www.digitaluk.co.uk/when_do_i_switch/stv_central/darvel.

We’re now on Facebook

We’re now on facebook, check us out at www.facebook.com/Killearn/.

Digital re-tune reminder (11th May 2011)

The digital switchover starts on the 11th May 2011, if you use the Darvel transmitter.

Stage 1 (11th May 2011)

BBC Two will go to digital and some new digital channels become available. This means that:

  • If you haven’t switched, you’ll lose BBC Two.
  • The time of day you switch will depend on which relay transmitter you are watching.

If you have Freeview, BT Vision or Top Up TV you’ll need to re-tune your equipment.

Stage 2 (25th May 2011)

All the remaining analogue channels will switch to digital and the remaining digital channels will become available. This means that:

  • If you haven’t switched to digital, you will lose your TV service.
  • The time of day you switch will depend on which relay transmitter you are watching.

If you have Freeview, BT Vision or Top Up TV you’ll need to re-tune your equipment again.

More information can be found at www.digitaluk.co.uk/when_do_i_switch/stv_central/darvel.

Football: Forth and Endrick season begins

THIS weekend will see the start of the Forth and Endrick football season – the first year of the association’s second century.

The 12 clubs that took part in the exciting centenary season have all survived and will take part in this year’s five competitions.

Read it on the Stirling Observer website.

Tributes paid to “great bloke”

EMOTIONAL tributes were this week paid to a Stirlingshire cyclist who passed away after an accident during a race in Perthshire.

John Yates (50), of Lampson Road, Killearn, fell when travelling with a group of about 20 other biking enthusiasts at around 11.50am on Sunday, April 17.

Read it on the Stirling Observer website.

Son pays tribute to father who died in cycling accident

The son of a cyclist who died during an endurance race in Perthshire said his father had never been involved in a crash before.

John Yates, of Lampson Road, Killearn, Stirlingshire, died after falling from his bike while trying to ride 100 miles in eight hours with the Glasgow Nightingale cycling club.

Read it on the stv news website.

Experienced cyclist dies after accident during biking event in Perthshire

A cyclist has died after sustaining head injuries while taking part in a biking event in Perthshire.

John Yates, of Lampson Road, Killearn, in Stirlingshire, fell from his bike at around 11.50am on Sunday.

Read it on the stv news website.

 

Green projects get £600,000 boost

GREEN projects in the Stirling area have been awarded more than £620,000 from the Scottish Government’s £8 million Climate Challenge Fund (CCF).

Going Carbon Neutral Stirling (GCNS), the programme administered by Keep Scotland Beautiful, along with projects in Broomridge, Bannockburn, Doune, Strathblane, 7th Beechwood Scouts, Callander and Killearn, have all received grants to carry out energy efficiency and generation projects, food growing schemes and active travel plans.

Read it on the Stirling Observer website.

Teens brave 192-mile trek for scanner appeal

AN INTREPID teenager and his friends are about to walk almost 200 miles as a thank you to the hospital which is treating his father for a brain tumour.

Seventeen-year-old Struan Scott and friends Alistair Eddie (18) and Matthew Heron (17) are preparing to set out on Monday on a two-way trek of the West Highland Way.

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Read it on the Stirling Observer website.