A FLASHER who was snared after having his picture taken by photography students at Powmill’s Devonshaw Quarry chased them to try and grab the camera back.

Ewan Brand, 49, chased the terrified girls after exposing himself to them in a disused quarry where they were compiling a portfolio of photographs.

 TILLICOULTRY Post Office was shut down last week after the owner refused to let financial investigators into the shop.

Hundreds of customers couldn’t believe their eyes when they turned up at the High Street outlet last Tuesday only to find the doors closed – bang in the middle of one of the busiest weeks of the year.

 A MULTI-MILLION pound national wildlife rescue centre earmarked for the Wee County moved a step closer last week when councillors approved the £500,000 sale of a proposed site for the complex.

As reported in the Wee County News last week, the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) sees the old Devon Equestrian centre near Fishcross as a potential site for the state-of-the-art facility.

 ALLOA Golf Club is breaking boundaries with the appointment of its first ever lady captain of the club.

Sheila Travers was appointed as captain last week. She will take the helm in January.

 LORNSHILL Academy staff and students were shocked to find a massive lorry embedded in the recently completed school building last Friday.

The bin lorry, which belongs to Clackmannanshire Council, had ploughed into the back of the new state-of-the-art building just before hundreds of youngsters were about to start school.

  AN Alloa mum who killed her partner in a row over music has been jailed for more than six years.

Andrea Neil stabbed Robert Hamilton after they argued about whether to play Kenny Rogers or Bob Dylan at their Alloa home last May.