Falkirk Herald Bulletin 11-07-24

Editor Jill Buchanan talks us through the headlines from The Falkirk Herald

Transcript

00:00Hello, I'm Jill Buchanan, the editor of the Falkirk Herald and I'm here to tell

00:04you about some of the stories that are making the headlines in our print

00:07edition which is on sale now. We lead this week on travel misery across the

00:12district. Resurfacing work in Pullman means roads are closed for two weeks

00:17meaning lengthy delays for motorists and it's no better if you want to catch the

00:21train after 600 services were suspended due to an ongoing pay dispute with

00:26between train drivers and ScotRail. We have full coverage of last week's

00:31general election results across the district and reveal the new Prime

00:35Minister Keir Starmer has already had talks on the future of the Grangemouth

00:38refinery. Two men who murdered a Grangemouth father have each been jailed for at

00:43least 20 years. A family from Laurison are so grateful to all the support given

00:50to their father at Forth Valley Royal Hospital that they held a fundraiser for

00:54staff. Dennis Muirmann's friends in Lodgecarn donated to the

00:59home-to-hospital service after it took him to the Beatson for cancer treatment

01:03and a Falkirk Council employee has been named as one of the top IT influencers

01:09in the country for his skills. We've got photographs from last weekend's Ewan

01:14Anderson Memorial Trophy football event at Little Kersh with all the money

01:18raised going to the British Heart Foundation and the Galaxy Foundation and

01:23there's lots of pics of pupils at Carneshore Primary putting on the

01:26school's first show in a decade, the favourite Beauty and the Beast. Historian

01:32Ian Scott recalls the many cinemas there used to be in Falkirk Town Centre. See if

01:36you can remember their names. And in sport we've pics of fans meeting the

01:41Bairns at an open training session this week and footballer Gary Tom from

01:45Dennis Muir had a testimonial match marking 10 years with Alisco Rose. All

01:50these stories and lots more are in a print edition which is on sale now and

01:54also online at www.falkirkherald.co.uk. Thank you.