Falkirk Council elections 2022: House building challenge for Lower Braes on the minds of voters

More plans are being made to upgrade play areas across Falkirk district - and Falkirk Council is looking for local views on how best to improve them.

Labour council groups will have the “flexibility” to strike deals with other parties - despite a coalition ban trumpeted during the election campaign.

A Scots theatre has been forced to cancel a Saturday night showing as Celtic fans gather in Glasgow to celebrate the club's Premiership title success.

Laura Anderson has revealed engagement is on the cards for her and Dane Bowers, and that she's even picked out a ring for her beau to shell out for. Laura, 32, and Dane, 42, were first romantically linked to one another in 2017 before the Scottish beauty went on Love Island. However, Dane was said to have been dating another woman at same time as Laura, sparking her to end things between them.

Householders are being warned of a new energy scam in which cold-callers are pretending to offer rebates from councils.

West Lothian’s SNP group leader Janet Campbell has called for a “progressive alliance” of cross-party councillors to lead a new council.

If you are on a low income or certain benefits including Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Pension Credit and struggling financially due to an unexpected change in your circumstances, you may be eligible for cash support from your local council.

A refugee who fled Ukraine to live with her future in-laws in Falkirk told how her hometown was destroyed by bombing - and turned into "hell."

A man has been arrested after reportedly being almost seven times over the drink driving limit while travelling to Falkirk.

Sinn Fein has become the biggest party at Stormont for the first time after it gained 27 seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, pushing the DUP into second place.

The SNP has come out as the biggest party at the Scottish council elections.

Scottish Labour is set to become the main challenger to Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP in future elections after Conservative support plunged to its worst Scottish showing a decade.

celebrity cancel culture, which he analogized to a modern-day form of “McCarthyism.” The 75-year-old Laurence Olivier award winner dropped the bombshell during a Thursday appearance on Piers Morgan’s show “Uncensored” on TalkTV.“It is a kind of modern-day McCarthyism really,” Cox told the host of the so-called witch hunt, in which celebs are excommunicated from Hollywood for certain actions and opinions. “It is a kind of raid on people’s sensibilities in order to reduce them and make them… I don’t know, there is so much hypocrisy in the whole thing.”The thespian continued, “I am not religious but there is a thing in the bible where it says, ‘Let he or she without sin cast the first stone’ and there seems to be a lot of casting of stones. And it is like a virus.”Cox was in good company while discussing the negativity of cancel culture with Post columnist Piers Morgan, who recently vowed to wipe out the damning trend.“My mission statement for this show is simple: I’m canceling cancel culture,” Morgan told “Piers Morgan Uncensored” viewers in April.

A court has heard a police officer weep as a she hit back at allegations that she had abused her partner who bore her child. PC Nicole Miller, 31, and Rochelle Kerr, a manager for Holland and Barrett, had a baby together by IVF.

The head of Perthshire Chamber of Commerce has written to Perth and Kinross candidates ahead of this week’s council elections asking them to oppose the introduction of new taxes or levies on local businesses if elected.

Falkirk Football Club manager Ray McKinnon is recovering in hospital after suffering a heart attack. The 51-year-old fell ill at the end of last week and was rushed in for emergency treatment.

An inquiry into a fire at a Scots hotel that claimed two lives will start in August, more than four and a half years after the blaze.

Councillors have spoken out against a review panel's conclusion Perth and Kinross Council acted "appropriately" in the actions that led to it legally challenging a Scottish Government decision.

Dumfries and Galloway Council has pulled out of a hearing into a controversial Glenkens windfarm development, just weeks before it is due to take place.