Wallace Monument: Last News

A Scots photographer has captured the epic moment lightning lit up the sky above the Wallace Monument in Stirling.

A specially commissioned, pre-recorded performance from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will provide the soundtrack to this year’s Hogmanay fireworks display at the National Wallace Monument.

Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletterA teenager has been arrested and another left in hospital with serious injuries after a car ploughed through a roundabout wall in an early hours collision.Police were called to the road smash at around 3.25am on Wednesday, September 29, following the report of a car colliding with a wall on Causewayhead Road, Stirling, in the shadow of the Wallace Monument.Residents were given a rude awakening as a result of the crash.Police were quickly on the scene and some time after the incident a removal vehicle was on scene taking the badly damaged car, which appeared to have shed its boot door, away from the area.Following the incident,

Stirling Council has thrown the latest punch in a battle for control of the Wallace Monument, accusing the charity which runs the attraction of a “dismissive approach” to talks. Earlier this week, as revealed by the Stirling Observer, Stirling District Tourism (SDT) launched a community ownership campaign for the monument in a bid to scupper the council’s plans to pull it back in-house.

Wallace Monument trustees have hit back at suggestions by Stirling Council’s leader that their dedication to the attraction was at the expense of wider benefits to Stirling tourism.