The Provost of Falkirk says he is “in despair” that repairing a gaping hole in a fence that separates a busy road from a canal “is not considered an urgent priority”.
Billy Buchanan is demanding that Scottish Canals and Falkirk Council work together to create a suitable safety barrier on the B816 Seabegs Road – saying someone has to take responsibility.While the Provost has raised the issue for several years, things became more urgent in October, when a car left the road and plunged into a stretch of the Forth & Clyde canal at the spot where a large tree had fallen into the water, leaving a gap.But Scottish Canals says that while it is accepts it is responsible for repairing the fence beside the road, it claims the fence is not there for
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