AN Alloa thug who doused two complete strangers with CS spray – hitting one in the eye – dodged jail last week.

 

Jamie Roy, 19, launched an unprovoked attack on students James Hooper and Paula McMinn as they were walking home after a Christmas night out.

 A SAUCHIE decorator facing bankruptcy used a paint tub to hide £35,000 of amphetamine in his Alva garage.

 

The seven kilo stash in a trade container labelled white emulsion was part of a £100,000 cocktail of drugs seized after under-cover officers kept watch on Stuart McDonald, 43.

 A WEE County community have expressed their fears after unauthorised building work started on their doorstep last week.

 

Residents in Marchglen held a special meeting last night (Tuesday) to discuss the site which has recently been sold.

 THE sight of a group of youths hanging about the street corner on a Friday night will be a fam-iliar one to many Wee County residents.

 

However, if you look a little closer, you will see something unexpected – a policeman in the middle of the group, laughing with, and talking to, the kids.

 ALLOA boss Allan Maitland described the game on Saturday as a contest of ‘boys against men’ – claiming injuries cost them the chance to make the play-off final.

 

The Wasps were without Dougie Wilson, Brown Ferguson, Stuart Noble, Scott Buist and Mark Gilhaney from the start and Andy Scott retired injured after only 10 minutes.