CAUSEWAYHEAD community council chair Archie Cowan has called on affected residents not to lose their focus over the campaign to  stop freight trains running at night despite the
possibility of receiving compensation.

Last week Holyrood transport minister Stuart Stevenson admitted compensation may be payable to residents along the line whose property has been devalued under the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973.

 

TORRENTS of water, streaming through the roof of Dunblane High School, forced teachers to send kids home as a freak storm hit the city on Monday.

 

Pupils were sent home just after lunch and staff could be seen emptying buckets of water out the front entrance all afternoon.