Lotto grantfor Raploch group

A charity focused on the economic and social regeneration of Stirling’s Raploch area has received almost £10,000 of lottery cash.

Raploch Community Partnership is based at Raploch Community Campus and facilities include a Community Hub equipped with social space, computers and printing facilities.

It is understood that the organisation will use the funding to engage a parttime project officer who will provide learning and employability services for unemployed people.

Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Dean Lockhart MSP, who has lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament highlighting the group’s lottery windfall, said: “This is excellent news for the project and the recruitment of a project officer will help to broaden the crucial work which the partnership does in Raploch and the wider Stirling area.

“The numbers of young people in particular who are economically inactive in certain areas of Stirling has been stubbornly steady of the last decade, and it is crucial for the Scottish economy that these groups are engaged in employment and all the benefits which come with having a job.

“I have submitted a motion to the Scottish Parliament, which has already gathered support from MSP colleagues, welcoming this funding announcement – and I look forward to hearing about the benefit this will bring to those across Stirling.’’

Police are sill probing the “unexplained” deaths of a Cambusbarron couple more than two months after they died.

Police found Sheena Jackson, 58, dead at a cottage in the village’s Main Street around lunchtime on Tuesday, October 30. Husband Alex, 65, had also collapsed and died in hospital a short time later.

It’s understood that the bodies have since been