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  • 1 week ago | msn.com | Ian Scott

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 1 week ago | falkirkherald.co.uk | Ian Scott

    The news that Alexander Dennis is to end bus manufacturing in Falkirk after nearly a century is a huge blow to the people who work there and to the economy of the district. Coming on the top of the ending of oil refining at Grangemouth it will badly damage the manufacturing sector which has been the life’s blood of the district since the firing of the first blast furnace at Carron in 1760.

  • 2 weeks ago | falkirkherald.co.uk | Ian Scott

    When the new Parish Church of Falkirk opened in 1811 there was an important meeting at which seats were allocated in proportion to the contribution made by the ‘heritors’ to the upkeep of the church, ministers stipend, schoolmasters salary etc. The seat plan has survived and it will come as no surprise that the names William Forbes and Lord Thomas Dundas dominate with over 60 per cent of the places.

  • 3 weeks ago | msn.com | Ian Scott

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 3 weeks ago | falkirkherald.co.uk | Ian Scott

    This week I met a lady who told me that she was a regular reader of this column. She wondered if I had ever written about the village of Standburn in which she had a special interest. I was able to reassure that I had, quite a few years ago, but that I would be happy to retell the story which I am doing today. Standburn is not an old community dating back only to the mid 1800s.

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