Anger as Bank of Scotland closure plans set to leave Dunblane without a bank

A section of the M876 motorway through Falkirk is to be closed for three nights as £155,000 worth of resurfacing improvements is set to begin this week.

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Scotland’s police force is facing a staffing crisis with up to 1800 officers considering leaving for bumper new pension deals.

Winter weather could be heading our way in the first week of the Easter holidays as snow, rain and freezing temperatures are expected across the UK.Things are set to reach freezing temperatures by the end of the week – with lows of -5C and up to 12 centimetres of snow in some parts of Great Britain. Arctic air travelling from the north will eventually spread over the country with the Met Office warning that the cold air “will win out eventually” by the end of the week.

plans to sell Channel 4 don’t “make any business sense” and undermine the channel’s “tremendous economic and cultural achievement”.The Scottish filmmaker criticised the government’s proposals to privatise the publicly owned channel, which he clarified does not cost the taxpayer any money as Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries wrongfully claimed last year, because it’s paid for by ad revenue.Iannucci, known for TV shows including The Thick Of It and I’m Alan Partridge as well as feature films such as The Death Of Stalin (2017), wrote in a The Guardian op-ed that the move has been ill-thought-out as he questioned why a broadcaster that “puts billions into the economy and promotes British culture and values internationally” should be sold off.“It doesn’t make any business sense, and it’s certainly not patriotic,” he wrote. “I regularly get asked by international broadcasters why the UK government has such a destructive agenda against the country’s main television networks.“Dorries tweeted yesterday that ‘government ownership is holding Channel 4 back’, which perhaps explains part of the problem, that she sees the network as some manifestation of the Big State.

It was the theatre show created to mark Celtic’s glittering Centenary Season in 1988.

The latest figures released by the Scottish Government show that over 658,000 Carer’s Allowance Supplement payments have been made to 126,055 people since the bi-annual bonus was first introduced in September 2018.

The Scottish Government has been accused of failing those most in need because its £150 grant to help with the soaring cost of living won’t be paid in a lump sum.

The Twilight Sad paid tribute to the late Scott Hutchison at their show in Glasgow last night (Friday April 1) by covering Frightened Rabbit‘s ‘Keep Yourself Warm’ with the band’s drummer.Yesterday, the Scottish band announced that their two hometown gigs at the Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom would see them joined by Frightened Rabbit’s drummer, Scott’s brother Grant Hutchison. Mogwai’s Alex Mackay also stepped in for Twilight Sad guitarist Andy MacFarlane, who was unable to perform “due to personal reasons”.The band have regularly covered ‘Keep Yourself Warm’ at shows since their close friend Hutchison took his own life in 2018.

Groups of residents who are opposing High Speed 2 being constructed through Lowton and Golborne believe they are getting all the problems but none of the benefits. The HS2 development is scheduled to commence in 2025 for preparation works and construction of the railway starting in 2027.

Motorists are being warned of travel disruption as work continues to upgrade Hill Bridge over the M9 in Falkirk.

Restoration work on the fountain in Dumfries town centre – along with a new piece of public art – is expected to be approved next week.

Online banking for Halifax, Lloyds and Bank of Scotland appears to have gone down leaving thousands of customers unable to access their accounts.

A man has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after being involved in an industrial accident in Dundee.

Pupils from Bo'ness Academy have started their journey to Greenland for what is believed to be the biggest Polar Expedition to leave Scotland since 1904.

Two Dumfries and Galloway towns are facing Bank of Scotland branch closures.