NEW brooms certainly swept clean at the Scottish Spina Bifida Association’s Cumbernauld HQ last week.

A plea has gone out to a former soldier believed to be living in the Kilsyth area to contact organisers of a Diamond Jubilee Re-union event in June.

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RAF PILOTS made a welcome overnight stop at Cumbernauld Airport during their bike ride from John O’ Groats to Land’s End.

Cumbernauld dad Iain Kelly is planning an epic sponsored cycle from Lands End to John O’Groats to raise funds for the Bobath Project at Yorkhill Childrens Hospital.

SENIOR Citizens from Cumbernauld and Kilsyth will have the opportunity to put on their dancing shoes at an extra special Tea Dance to jointly celebrate Volunteer Week 2012 and The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

members of Abronhill Learning Trust and the Alpha Project were welcomed to the Scottish Parliament by Jamie Hepburn, SNP MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth.

CUMBERNAULD’s Fiona Thompson displayed superior speed and accuracy when she won a heap of trophies in an RAF shooting competition.

NATURE lovers won’t want to miss the chance to see rare wildlife on Dullatur Marsh.

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YOU are never to young to be a model citizen – as one young lass knows very well.

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GIRLS at Kilsyth Rainbows held a fundraising beetle drive recently raising cash for the unit and Strathcarron Hospice.

A CUMBERNAULD woman who has recently suffered a double bereavement is organising a very special tribute to her loved ones.

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cumbernauld-BASED professional boxer Mitch Prince is training hard for his next fight on June 1.

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A MUCH-treasured statue of the nation’s poet has been returned to Kilsyth in a touching and emotional donation ceremony.

MEMBERS of three local community groups recently made the trip to Edinburgh to be shown around the Scottish Parliament by representative Jamie Hepburn.