Martin Earl: Last News

A pair of buses operating on the McLaren High network have been taken off the route after an inspection revealed “defects”.

The state of rural bus services in Stirling have come into sharp focus again as one service saw at least 10 scheduled services cancelled on Monday – leaving passengers stranded.

A long-abandoned car was finally removed from a disabled bay in Callander this week after a saga described as “a complete farce”.

The final site in the Raploch Regeneration Initiative programme will provide a further 68 new homes.

Fed-up Callander residents took matters into their own hands by decorating a long-abandoned car for Valentine’s Day in order to draw attention to their plight.

More than 1000 residents have signed a new petition urging Stirling Council to overturn the decision to switch to monthly bin uplifts.

Concerns have been raised that the suspension of bin collection due to Covid-related staff shortages has been exacerbated by Stirling’s switch to monthly uplifts last year.

Free parking at a spot in Callander looks set to be part of discussions between councillors.

Hospitality businesses in parts of rural Stirling have been left angered after being forced to close as part of a crackdown on coronavirus across Scotland’s ‘central belt’.Traders in parts of west Stirlingshire and the north of Stirling district have had to join pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels across Stirling in shutting their doors for two weeks as part of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s tighter Covid-19 restrictions to combat the spread of the virus.However, publicans from as far away as Crianlarich, Tyndrum, Killin and Balmaha are treated in the same way as those in Stirling because they are within the NHS Forth Valley health board area.Trossachs and Teith Tory counillor, Martin Earl, who represents Crianlarich, Tyndrum, Killin and