Editor Jill Buchanan talks us through the headlines from The Falkirk Herald.
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00:00Hello, I'm Jill Buchanan, the editor of the Falkirk Herald and I'm here to tell you about
00:05the stories that are making the headlines in our latest edition which is on sale now.
00:09It's all about the pies this week. We've got the good news about the guys who make them with the
00:13team at Kinnaird Butchers picking up a diamond accolade for their Belmoral pie at the Scotch
00:19Pie Awards and the one who eats them as a Falkirk teacher is chosen as Aldi's first official pie
00:25taster. Residents have been asked to tell Falkirk Council what they would like to see in the new
00:30Civic Centre planned for the heart of the town as public consultation gets underway.
00:36It was celebration time this week as not one but two of our oldest residents turned 100.
00:43Happy birthday to Trudy Roy and Olive Jack. In politics the SNP has announced its candidates
00:50to contest next year's Holyrood elections for Falkirk West and the new seat of Falkirk East
00:55in Malithgow and neither are strangers to local politics. Two nurses who work in Denny are preparing
01:02to step out on the West Handel Way to raise funds for a local charity that helps fight loneliness in
01:07the town. There were lots of events in the area to mar the 80th anniversary of VEE Day when the war
01:14in Europe came to an end in 1945 and we've got images from lots of them. All ages came together
01:21for street parties, teas, parades and services to mark the important anniversary. We've also got
01:27photographs from the first Bowness Fair fundraising 5k and from some of the events taking place at Falkirk
01:33Science Festival as well as the reopening of a limerick play park. In the retro section historian Ian Scott
01:40takes us on the final stage of his fascinating stroll around the circular route of the trams in their
01:45heyday from Bainsford Bridge to Falkirk. In sport we've got Stennis Muir boss Gary Naismith's reflections
01:52on the club's season in league one after they lost out in the playoffs to Airdrie, Falkirk
01:57Calvin Miller being named Scottish Championship Player of the Year. We've also got photographs of the recent
02:03primary schools cross country championships at calendar park and youngsters playing cricket at the
02:08Reading and was quarter ground plus lots lots more. All these stories and more are in a print edition
02:14which is on sale now and online at www.falkirkherald.co.uk. Thank you.