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The Falkirk Herald is a weekly newspaper and daily news website published by National World. It provides reportage, opinion and analysis of news, current affairs and sport in the towns of Falkirk, Camelon, Grangemouth, Larbert, Stenhousemuir and Denny as well as the neighbouring villages of Polmont, Redding, Brightons, Banknock and Bonnybridge.
Falkirk is served by a weekly newspaper, the Falkirk Herald, which is published by Johnston Press. The company was established by the Johnston family from Falkirk, who have been involved in publishing since 1767. The family acquired the Herald, their first newspaper, in 1846. The publishing company was renamed F Johnston & Co Ltd in 1882, a ...
Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. [2] [3] Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the i, The Scotsman, the Yorkshire Post, the Falkirk Herald, and Belfast 's The News Letter. The company was operating around 200 newspapers and associated websites around the United Kingdom and the Isle ...
Falkirk Town Council took over the library in 1896 under the Public Libraries (Scotland) Act and appointed the first librarian, George Chapman. Dollar had already agreed that in the event of the burgh adopting the Free Libraries Act that his library could be transferred to the town and the use of the premises be granted free of charge.
56.01681°N 3.60891°W. / 56.01681; -3.60891. Borrowstounness (commonly known as Bo'ness ( / boʊˈnɛs / boh-NESS )) is a town and former burgh and seaport on the south bank of the Firth of Forth in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Historically part of the county of West Lothian, it is a place within the Falkirk council area, 17 miles (27 ...
The Battle of Falkirk ( Scottish Gaelic: Blàr na h-Eaglaise Brice; Scots: Battle o Fawkirk ), on 22 July 1298, was one of the major battles in the First War of Scottish Independence. Led by King Edward I of England, the English army defeated the Scots, led by William Wallace. Shortly after the battle Wallace resigned as Guardian of Scotland.
Blackness is a small village and harbour at Blackness Bay, an inlet of the Firth of Forth in Scotland. [3] It lies 3.4 mi (5.5 km) east-southeast of Bo'ness, 5.0 mi (8.0 km) west-northwest of South Queensferry and 3.8 mi (6.1 km) north-east of Linlithgow, within the council area of Falkirk. It was formerly part of the historic county of West ...
370 killed and wounded. The Battle of Falkirk Muir, or Battle of Falkirk, [a] took place near Falkirk, Scotland, on 17 January 1746 during the Jacobite rising of 1745. A narrow Jacobite victory, it had little impact on the campaign. After their withdrawal from England in December 1745, the Jacobite army besieged Stirling Castle in early January.