Teenager denies brick and hammer attack
A host of buildinags across Stirling are taking part in the Doors Open festival this weekend.
Holy Trinity Church in Stirling will be open to visitors between 10am and 4pm on Saturday and Sunday with guided tours on the Sunday plus two special events.
One is `There But Not There’, a striking installation of the silhouetted forms of WW1 soldiers.
Church spokesperson Claire Brims said: “We were offered this exhibition as a consequence of our partnership with SSAFA, the Armed Force Charity. The exhibition connects poignantly with our commemoration of the Armistice.
“Holy Trinity lost so many of its young men during the 1914-1918 war. There can have been no members of the congregation who were unaffected by it.”
SSAFA are also holding a Big Brew in the church hall on Saturday from 11am.
A choral evensong for the feast of St Ninian of Whithorn is being held in the church on Sunday at 6pm, featuring choirs from the surrounding area.
Other buildings taking part in the festival A Stirling teenager has denied attacking a man with a brick and a hammer.
William Young, of Edzell Drive, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting James William Kelly to his injury at Johnston Avenue, Stirling, include: Allan’s Primary School bastion, an unusual beehive bastion from the 1500s; Bannockburn House, the A-listed 17th century listed mansion now being restored by trustees; B-listed Blair Drummond House’s garden terrace; Cambuskenneth Abbey tower; Carbeth hutters community, whose huts date back to the time of the First World War; Church of the Holy Rude; Cowane’s Hospital; Iris Murdoch Building, home of the Dementia Services Development Centre at Stirling University; Kippen Parish Church; Kippen Smiddy; Leighton Library, Dunblane; Logie Old Kirk; Macrobert Arts Centre; Mugdock Castle; Old Auchentroig, Buchlyvie; St Andrew’s Scottish Episcopal Church, Callander; St Columba’s Church, Stirling; St Mary’s Scottish Episcopal Church, Aberfoyle; St Ninian’s Kirk; Stirling Community Fire Station; Stirling Old High School observatory and telescope; Stirling Sheriff Court; Stirling Tolbooth; Stirling Youth Hostel; The Engine Shed.
Most of the Doors Open events take place this weekend but times are on the website at www.doorsopendays.org.uk. on June 4.
The 19-year-old is alleged to have assaulted Mr Kelly by thowing a brick at him, which struck him on the head.
Young is also said to have pursued Mr Kelly and hit him on the head and body with a hammer, causing him to fall to the ground.
At Stirling Sheriff Court yesterday Sheriff Simon Collins set the trial for September 24.
Bail was continued meantime.