Central County, Scotland News

North Lanarkshire, along with 7 other Scottish councils, must thrash out which recommendations to pursue Exclusive: Gerry Braiden Published on 23 Nov 2009 The most radical proposals to shake up Scottish local democracy in a generation are revealed today, including plans to merge health and social care for a third of the countrya s population.

SCOTLAND'S most dangerous drug gang is terrorising the underworld with a series of savage kidnappings.

SCOUTS in Linlithgow launched their Christmas post scheme this week. Scout Post has been running in the Edinburgh area for around 25 years but never in the Linlithgow area.

ANN Ritchie of the SNP has been elected to Falkirk Council as a Bo'ness and Blackness representative.

A search is being launched after a man was seen in a river, police said. Central Scotland Police said a member of the public spotted the man at around 9.05pm on Thursday night in the River Carron in Falkirk.

Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button.

Flooding problems have hit towns across Scotland as heavy downpours and strong winds continue to affect many parts of the country.

TO celebrate 100 years of Girlguiding, an exhibition was launched in August, rotating around five libraries in West Lothian until 2011.

Plans to increase the Scottish parliament's remit in doubt after Queen makes only fleeting reference to the proposals Alex Salmond will make devolution a key battleground in the general election.

Actor Gerard Butler attends the 2009 Whitney Museum Gala at The Whitney Museum of American Art on October 19, 2009 in New York City.

THE Catholic Church in Scotland has stepped into the row over plans to remove hundreds of homes from the catchment area of a flagship school.

A U.S. Airways airliner en route from Philadelphia to London made an unscheduled stop in Boston Monday after the pilot deemed a passenger's behavior unruly and decided to have him removed from the plane.

COUNCILLORS have rejected a rental premium of nearly 50 per cent over the odds, to help protect local businesses.

THE Pope will meet the Queen when he visits Scotland in September, we can reveal.

To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the scotsman.com site.

PLANS to build new flats at Kinacres Grove, Bo'ness were thrown out last week a ' despite developers expecting to get the go-ahead. This week the firm's boss a ' who pointed out the company had sunk nearly A 1 million into the town's re-development a ' dubbed the decision ''unbelievable''. BMR Developments Ltd submitted plans to Falkirk Council to ...

Labour MPs across Britain will believe they can win a fourth general election after the party's huge victory in the Glasgow North East by-election, a senior minister has claimed.

A CALLOUS thief nicked a charity poppy tin from a church a ' just minutes before the start of the Armistice Sunday service.

A mother-of-two killed her partner with a single stab through the heart after a row about music, a court has heard.

MSP Cathy Peattie has backed a demntia rights charter. Falkirk East MSP Cathy Peattie said that there are "more than 69,500 people living in Scotland who have been diagnosed with dementia, and this is projected to increase to 127,000 by 2031.