Emergency numbers
ELECTRICITY Scottish Power (all times)
0845 272 7999 Scottish Hydro-Electric (all times) 0800 300 999
GAS Transco Emergency (escapes) 0800 111 999
FIRE Central Brigade HQ
01324 716996 Stirling Fire Station
01786 472223 Alloa Fire Station 01259 724112 HOSPITALS Stirling Community Hospital
01786 434000 Falkirk Community Hospital
01324 624000 Forth Valley Royal Hospital
01324 566000 NHS HELPLINE
0800 22 44 88 (National free phone service. Information is covered by trained counsellors 8am-10pm, Mon-Sun) NHS24
111 POLICE Police Scotland Forth Valley Division, telephone 101
WATER Scottish Water 0845 600 8855 Floodline 0845 988 1188 ROADS/LIGHTING 0845 277 7000
DENTAL Patients not registered
01324 620999 DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE Drugs Hotline 01786 456211
Addictions Support & Counselling 01786 450721 Signpost Recovery 0845 673 1774
RAPE CRISIS Central Scotland Rape Crisis
01786 471771 CHILDLINE SCOTLAND
0800 1111 CHILD DEATH HELPLINE
0800 282986 VICTIM SUPPORT Stirling and district 01786 445782
SAMARITANS Falkirk (24 hrs) 01324 622066 or
08457 909090 ALZHEIMER SCOTLAND Action on Dementia (24hrs)
0808 808 3000 WOMEN’S AID Alloa 01259 721407 Stirling 01786 470897 FAMILY MEDIATION Stirling 01786 472984
OPEN SECRET Stirling (childhood abuse)
01786 448504 CARERS CENTRE Stirling 01786 447003
PARKINSON’S Stirling 0808 800 0303 COUNCIL ON DISABILITY Stirling 01786 462178 ACTION IN MIND Stirling and district 01786 451203
SUNDAY CHEMISTS Boots, Thistle Centre; Sainsbury, Back o’Hill Road; and Tesco, Wallace Street, all Stirling are
normally open. BUSINESS GATEWAY Business start-up advice
0845 609 6611