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More than 400 cases of anti-social behaviour were reported to Stirling Council in just over nine months last year.

Stirling politicians last week said the bid for UK City of Culture 2025 will showcase the city’s rich heritage and cultural life.

Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.Since 2017 the council administration has been an SNP/Labour coalition, originally comprising of nine SNP and four Labour councillors, with the opposition consisting of eight Tories, one Green councillor and one independent.Now, however, the SNP has been reduced to seven councillors after one member - Maureen Bennison - joined the Alba Party, while the recent Forth and Endrick by-election following the death of SNP councillor Graham Lambie was won by a Scottish Conservative candidate.SNP councillor Evelyn Tweed was recently elected as Stirling’s MSP but chose not to step down from the council and is carrying out both roles.The Conservatives now sit at nine members with SNP on seven,

A Stirling councillor ousted as chair of a prominent council committee has lambasted former SNP colleagues during a virtual public meeting. Bannockburn ward councillor Maureen Bennison resigned from the SNP last month claiming there had been bullying, sexism and party in-fighting and that “toxic abuse and threats” had been dished out by elements within the party on women speaking out over the Scottish Government’s proposed changes to gender recognition.

A Stirling councillor has dramatically resigned from the SNP amid claims of bullying, sexism and party in-fighting.Bannockburn ward councillor Maureen Bennison - the partner of former Stirling MP Steven Paterson - resigned from the party on Monday night “with immediate effect”.While she intends to continue to represent the ward, her former SNP colleagues have called for her to stand down.In an official statement she said she had resigned “with regret”, adding she had “no further comment at the present time.”However, her letter to Councillor Farmer was far more explosive.In it she wrote: “This has been an extremely difficult decision, but it is the only principled course of action left to me in regrettable circumstances.“Since being elected

Police and council officers are looking at whether a rise in begging across Stirling could be down to people trafficking.