ALLAN Maitland can’t wait for Alloa’s season to get underway at Dens Park at the weekend as they take on Dundee in the ALBA Challenge Cup.

 

The Alloa boss has put his side through their paces in pre-season and can’t wait for a return to competitive action.

 A SICK school worker from Sauchie posed as a teenage girl to entice kids to send him naked pictures of themselves online.

 

Vile Brian Syme targeted boys aged between 12 and 21 – including pupils he taught – and befriended them on social networking sites.

 A TULLIBODY man who had a six-hour stand off with armed police after threatening them with an air rifle is awaiting the outcome of a sheriff’s demand for an investigation into the power of the weapon.

 

Scott Barclay, of The Orchard, was due to be sentenced in Alloa sheriff court last Thursday (July 8), however, he will now have to wait more than a month for his punishment after Sheriff David Mackie said he wanted tests on the weapon to see how powerful it was.

 TWO young boys had to be rescued by firefighters at the weekend after getting themselves stuck on the roof of a Wee County school.

 

A special rescue team was deployed after a call to the emergency services saying the two youngsters – believed to both be 10-years-old – were spotted on the roof of the nursery at Abercromby primary in Tullibody on Sunday night.

 WEE County artists joined some the world’s biggest acts as over 85,000 fans enjoyed  Scotland’s biggest music festival, T in the Park at the weekend.

 

Dollar’s rising star Kid Adrift and Alva’s Barry Mopp played the infamous T Break Stage on Saturday as fans braved wet weather during the three-day festival.

 ALLOA’S pre-season campaign started to take shape at the weekend as they faced several SPL sides at the annual Oban Saints tournament.

 

The Wasps, who won the trophy last year, use the event to view trialists and help improve match fitness ahead of the start of the season on July 24.