Stirling and Clackmannanshire Council Trading Standards is warning local residents about a new telephone scam, which targets people who have taken out Loan Payment Protection Insurance (PPI).

Since 2008 Clackmannanshire and Stirling Environment Trust has awarded environmental grants to community groups to help implement local projects to improve the environment and benefit both the local community and visitors to the local area.

An application for an on and off sales licence by J D Wetherspoon (Scot) Ltd for a proposed public house in the former HMRC building in Stirling’s Spittal Street was rejected by the District of Stirling Licensing Board at its meeting yesterday morning (Wednesday 1 February).

Stirling Council will shortly be removing Christmas memorial wreaths from cemeteries. It is our practice to remove wreaths at this time of year to ensure the condition of our cemeteries is maintained.

Housing charity Shelter Scotland has highlighted Stirling Council’s impressive reduction in eviction rates in a recent report.

On Wednesday 8th February - 11am - 3pm, Stirling Council's Ranger Service is looking for volunteers to help with a day of cutting and removing the dead stalks of the common reed and bulrushes in the filtration reed beds. This work needs done each year to prevent litter building up at the bottom and stopping the plants from oxygenating the water, which filters into the Plean Burn.

At the end of January, poet Magi Gibson’s tenure will end as the Stirling Makar. Stirling Council is now inviting nominations to be submitted for a new Makar who will represent the Stirling area and poetry.

Staff at Stirling Council's Archive are really excited that Stirling's first Protocol Book has just been repatriated from the National Records of Scotland! Alan Borthwick from The National Records of Scotland (NRS) dropped off the 15th century volume to delighted Archives staff on Wednesday, 25th January.

Stirling Council’s Executive agreed unanimously to continue support for Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise children’s orchestra in the city’s Raploch community at a meeting on Thursday evening (26 January).

Stirling Council is delighted to have won a National Loo of the Year Award in the search to find the best ‘away from home’ toilets in the UK.

On Wednesday 1st February, Stirling Council will be hosting an awards ceremony in the Council chambers in recognition of the invaluable work local foster carers do throughout the area.

Stirling Council’s Beauly to Denny Power Line Steering Group has met with the Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, Fergus Ewing MSP, to discuss the Ministers’ recent decision to approve Scottish Power Transmission’s (SPT) Visual Impact Mitigation Scheme though the Stirling area, and the additional compensatory mitigation requested by the Minister.