http://www.http://www.alloaadvertiser.com//rss/rss.php Latest from the online edition en-gb Tuesday, 06th of January 2009 02:34:07 AM Copyright (C) 2008 Berkshire Media Group http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/rss/ 13 http://www.clydeandforthmedia.com/furniture/al_logo_500x75.png http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/ ALLOA business owners have lambasted ScottishPower ‘scrooges’ for a derisory compensation package offered for the pre-Christmas power cuts. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32315 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32315 Tuesday, 30 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News IT was the end of an era in Alloa’s town centre this week as Woolworths closed its doors for the final time. The Mill Street store closed to customers on Monday. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32314 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32314 Tuesday, 30 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News LOUISE Balderston from Alloa gave birth to to Clackmannanshire’s first baby on Christmas Day – 7lb 15oz Tyler. The bouncing baby boy kept everyone waiting as Louise was due on 19 December. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32313 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32313 Tuesday, 30 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News A TILLICOULTRY man researching the fatal Second World War crash of three Spitfires in the Ochils is asking the Clackmannanshire public for their help. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32312 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32312 Tuesday, 30 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News FOUR wind turbines could be placed on a former landfill site at Forthbank in Alloa. Clackmannanshire Council has given permission to Partnership for Renewables (PfR) to examine the potential implications of the installation of the 80 metre high machines. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32311 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32311 Tuesday, 30 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News ALLOA businesses are facing a bleak Christmas as repeated power black outs forced shops to close – losing thousands of pounds of crucial festive trade. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32259 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32259 Wednesday, 24 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News UNION officials have launched a scathing attack on Clackmannanshire Council’s management team accusing them of wasting tax payers money. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32257 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32257 Wednesday, 24 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News A BID to transform the former Zones Leisure Centre into a half a million pound ten-pin bowling alley has been given the green light. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32255 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32255 Wednesday, 24 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News A MUCKHART woman broke into a US airbase in a bid to prevent the use of cluster bombs in Iraq, a court has heard. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32253 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32253 Wednesday, 24 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News A FEASIBILITY study will be carried out to look at the possibility of extending the Alloa rail line to Rosyth. The decision by SEStran – the South East Scotland Transport Partnership – to carry out the study follows the release of new figures which show the reopened Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine line has been an outstanding success. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32252 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/32252 Wednesday, 24 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News CASH-STRAPPED Clackmannanshire Council is insisting funding will be in place to pay for the three new secondary schools being built in the county. But the council has revealed that the opening of the new Alloa Academy has been further delayed – it follows the decision to put back the opening of Alva Academy by over three months. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/31973 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/31973 Wednesday, 17 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News AN ALLOA lorry driver was caught red-handed with cocaine worth a street value of £4.2 million, a court was told on Tuesday. The High Court in Glasgow heard that 47-year-old Cameron McFarlane’s lorry was stopped by police on the M90 on 10 October this year. http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/31972 http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/articles/1/31972 Wednesday, 17 December 2008 12:30:00 GMT News