Falkirk

It’s no secret the high street is suffering. From cities to small towns, Scotland’s urban centres have been rocked by waves of store closures and a rise in long-term vacant units.

Ian Macleod Distillers has been granted planning permission to start work on its multi-million-pound redevelopment of the Rosebank Distillery in Falkirk.

A top prisons official spoke of his shock and horror at learning of the death of a “respectful, well-manned” teenager who took his life after being transferred to young person’s prison from a secure unit for children.

A football fan ejected from his team’s match found a unique way to watch more of the action - by scaling a TREE outside the stadium.

Falkirk-based firm IKM Surveying, part of IKM Consulting Group, is launching a new mobile mapping service to boost the efficiency and safety of road survey procedures.

Weeks ahead of the first Edinburgh-Glasgow rail journeys being cut to 42 minutes as part of an £858 million upgrade, a new book has highlighted that a service only one minute slower was launched between the cities nearly 50 years ago.

A Falkirk music business is anticipating sales will grow by more than £3 million as it launches an e-commerce venture.

Forth Valley College has registered a record number of female engineering modern apprentices (MAs) for an academic year, with 19 signing up for courses which cover sectors such as welding and fabrication, instrumentation, power distribution and mechanical engineering.

Passengers in Scotland will next week be the first to ride in a new battery-powered train to showcase its potential without the high cost of electrifying railway lines.

The breakdown of a fifth canal bridge between Edinburgh and Glasgow could be the final straw that closes the waterways, campaigners fear.

A Falkirk-based book producer has transitioned to employee ownership, the latest of some 100 Scottish companies to become owned by its workers.

Scotch beef is in demand, both in Scotland and the wider UK, and, thanks to the current weak pound, Caledonian Marts is seeing a very strong export market for Scotch lamb.

An SNP MSP has called in police after staff at his constituency office opened a letter which had been smeared in excrement.

For sale signs are going up at police stations in Camelon and Falkirk.

A second branch of the charity Rape Crisis Scotland has been forced to close its waiting list for counselling and support.

An extremely underweight Rottweiler had to have its eye removed after being neglected by its teen owner.

Mayonnaise and ice cream are not two dairy products you would usually put together - but one Scottish ice cream parlour has done the unthinkable.

A Danish-inspired scheme to get elderly people out and about on people-carrying trishaws is to be extended across Scotland, it was announced today.