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CANCER sufferers from Killearn and Balfron are going to benefit from a new free transport service to hospital appointments for radiotherapy treatment.
The ‘Rotarun’ scheme was introduced by the Rotary Club of Strathendrick after they discovered that many patients who need radiotherapy treatments at the Beatson Hospital or elsewhere have experienced difficulty with transport.
Read it on the Milngavie Herald website.
A Killearn businessman was awarded an MBE last week for his services to the business community and charity work spanning 20 years.
John Fortune-Fraser (80) was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours list and presented with the award by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace last week.
Read it on the Milngavie Herald website.
The police slammed parents for being ‘niave’ after they had to ‘babysit’ over 100 teenagers who met in Killearn for a drunken party.
Children aged 13 to 14 from nearby Stirlingshire villages met up in the posh village on Saturday, October 13 after telling parents they were going for a sleepovers with pals.
Read it on the Milngavie Herald website.
The next meeting of Killearn Community Council will be held on Wednesday, October 24 at 8pm in Killearn Primary School.
The first item on the agenda will be a presentation by Murray Cook, Stirling Council’s archaeologist, on his recent work in the area.
Read it on the Milngavie Herald website.
More than 100 kids gathered for a drunken party in a posh village after telling parents they were going to a sleepover with pals.
And police yesterday slammed parents as naive after revealing they were forced to “babysit” drunk 13 and 14-year-olds.
About 30 litres of booze were confiscated from kids at the party in Killearn, Stirlingshire, which was organised via Facebook.
Read it on the Daily Record website.
Please can everyone in Killearn with 01360 550 and 551 numbers please fill out the form at www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/expression-gen.aspx and help Killearn get the much needed fibre broadband. We have had slow Internet for way to long. We need fibre broadband to help local businesses grow.
Thanks for your help! 🙂
A man has died in hospital following a collision on the A81 near Killearn in Stirlingshire.
The 69-year-old man was driving the only vehicle involved in the accident on the A81 between Ballat Crossroads and the Blane Smithy Roundabout just after 08:00.
Read it on the BBC news website.
KILLEARN’S first ever beer festival at The Old Mill at the beginning of June has been hailed as a phenomenal success this week by the organisers.
Despite the rainy weather everyone enjoyed the fortnight of fun, frolics and community camaraderie thanks to a fantastic line-up of events for the village Hoolie.
Read it on the Milngavie Herald website.
A community archaeological dig has rediscovered the lost Place of Killearn a 17th century laird’s house and designed landscape.
The Place of Killearn was built in 1688 and recorded in the 1790s as being surrounded by ‘numerous plantations, regularly disposed in form of clumps, belts, and wildernesses, beautify and shelter an extensive tract of pleasure ground round the house’, and including both ancient oaks and what may be some of Scotland’s earliest larches.
Read it on the myStirling website.
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