Opinion

It’s funny the moment that it hits you, completely out of the blue and when you least expect it.

If I were to list the most common day-to-day things which irritate me, I would undoubtedly place littering close to the top.

Local officers continue to work with community partners in delivering the Local Policing Plan which outlines how we will work together to make our communities safer and is linked to the Falkirk Community Planning Partnership Strategic Outcomes and Local Delivery (SOLD) Plan.

Eilidh will be sitting on someone’s lap getting a cuddle when I go to pick her up from 
nursery.

Strathcarron Retail is a vital source of income for the hospice and has been going from strength to strength over the last couple of years.

Since 1962 the ‘Falkirk Herald’ has been unchallenged as Falkirk’s purveyor of local news.

Did you hear about the eight-year-old who climbed the Old Man of Hoy and raised lots of money for a cancer charity?

For the past couple of years, I’ve flown with the same travel company purely down to the fact that their service is second to none.

A TROOP of Scouts spent the night under the stars when they camped at Barrwood.

This week we’ve had the pleasure of hosting a breakfast meeting at the hospice for the Bairns’ Business Club.

Last Friday morning two colleagues in Greenock attended what was, on the face of it, a routine call attended by many officers across Scotland and not unusual in Falkirk.

I am currently 
embracing a little slice of heaven as I lie here on Jumeirah Beach in Dubai. It is luxurious to say the least.

Now I’m no ardent burn-your-bra feminist who hates all men with a passion but I do believe that in 2018 to discover there are still vast barriers for women is shocking.

The idea of bringing traffic back to the High Street in Falkirk is an interesting concept.

We’re at the height of summer and the massive blockbusters are coming to cinemas thick and fast. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, The Incredibles, Deadpool 2 and Solo: A Star Wars Story are but just a few of the big-screen treats for audiences this year, and in the past there has been no better way to take in these spectacles than on the big screen.

Exactly 200 years ago in the spring of 1818 work began on a new canal which at the time was known as the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal.

When I was thinking about what to get my boyfriend for his birthday, I only had one thing in mind.

TEAMWORK paid off for a colony of Beavers when they were joined by a group of Cub leaders.

Older and, much to my surprise it appears, wiser.