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The Courier
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- Entertainment
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5 times Stirling and Stirlingshire have featured on property TV shows
A Bridge of Allan family recently appeared on Location, Location, Location. It's not the first time Stirlingshire has featured on a property television show; from Scotland's Home of the Year to Love It or List It, viewers love a peek inside other people's homes. From hunting for the perfect home to renovating run-down rooms – here are five times Stirling or Stirlingshire has featured on property TV shows. A mother and daughter enlisted the help of Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp on Location, Location, Location to find their dream home in Stirling. The Channel 4 show, featuring Lorraine Macleod and Emma Carman, aired in June 2025. The pair, who were living with Lorraine's parents, viewed four homes within their budget of £275,000. However, despite offering well above the asking price for a cottage in Torbrex, Lorraine and Emma lost out on the property. Luckily, they found their dream three-bedroom townhouse in Bridge of Allan for £255,000 after the show. Scotland's Home of the Year has featured several Stirlingshire homes since it first aired in 2019. This year, a steading conversion in Deanston was part of the BBC show. The Dairy, owned by Mhairi and Andrew Wilson since 2023, boasts impressive views over the Trossachs. In 2024, a mill conversion near Dunblane was part of the series. The 200-year-old building had been abandoned for 25 years before it was lovingly restored by Lee and Dawn Collins. Plus, a Georgian renovation in rural Killearn was crowned the winner in 2021. Judges loved The Moss' 'dreamy pink interior' which included a pink Aga cooker in the kitchen. TV presenter Kaye Adams appeared on a celebrity edition of Escape to the Country last year. The Loose Women presenter viewed four properties in Stirlingshire to find a three-bedroom home with open plan living, a garden and space to record her podcast. Kaye, who had a budget of £850,000, said her favourite house looked over Loch Ard. An episode of Homes Under the Hammer featured a Stirling flat last year. A Musical Sink saw host Martel Maxwell, from Dundee, follow Ross as he purchased a damp run-down property in the city centre. He bought the two to three-bedroom flat prior to auction for £135,000 and carried out a five-month renovation to restore it to its former glory. Ross invested £35,000 into the works and turned the property into a short-term let. A property expert valued it as worth £180,000 to £200,000 – a profit of up to £30,000. Kirstie and Phil's Love It or List It has also had a Stirlingshire episode. In series two, the hosts set out to help Karyn and Duncan in the Carron Valley. The couple had been arguing for two years over what to do about their three-bed rural semi. Phil took Karyn and Duncan to view properties in Fife, Strathyre and Sauchie, while Kirstie inspired a £40,000 upgrade. At the end of the 2016 episode, they decided to keep the property.
The Courier
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Courier
5 of the most popular TikTok stars from Stirling
Social media site TikTok has more than one million users across the world creating content. This has given people the opportunity to gain a following for a variety of topics, from cooking to comedy. And Stirling has produced its fair share of social media sensations. Here are five of the biggest TikTok stars from Stirling and Stirlingshire. Stirling tailor Jonathan Farley has gained millions of views from teaching viewers how to tie a tie. He's shown thousands the Eldredge Knot, which is considered the world's most complicated, and invented his own, such as the Double Stirling. Based in Bannockburn at his studio Perfectly Tailored, day-to-day he helps people find the perfect suit. Jonathan has 244,000 followers on TikTok and more than two million likes. Fraser Reynolds is passionate about showing people how to make healthy meals. The former Bannockburn High PE teacher has almost 400K followers on both TikTok and Instagram. Fraser runs In vs Out Nutrition, which aims to change the way people think about dieting food. He's also published two books – Tasty High Protein and Speedy High Protein. Laura Anderson, who grew up in Cambusbarron, rose to fame when she was crowned runner-up on the fourth series of Love Island. She's also featured on Celebrity Karaoke Club and reality show Celebs Go Dating. However, the TV personality has also had millions of views on her TikTok page. Laura posts relatable content about being a mum, as well as fashion and makeup videos. Livi Purcell is best known for her vlogs showing her life in Glasgow running her very own fashion brand Delulu Since 1999. The social media star, who appeared on The Agency: Unfiltered series three, is originally from Port of Menteith. @livipurcelll has gained almost two million likes on her TikTok videos and has 20k followers. Dunblane Dad John MacDonald has racked up more than 200,000 followers across his two TikTok accounts. The 37-year-old started out making videos about being a dad to two teenagers. But this year alone, he has gained more than 130k followers from making prank calls on his @prankster_john account. He plans to quit his job in digital marketing to pursue content creation full-time.
BBC News
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Body of man recovered from water at Outlander beauty spot
The body of a man has been recovered from a beauty spot made famous by the TV series Scotland said it received a report of concern for a person at Finnich Glen, Stirlingshire, at about 13: Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and a mountain rescue team responded to the alert and the body was retrieved from the water at the Devil's man, who has not been named, was pronounced dead at the scene. A police spokesperson said there were no suspicious circumstances and a report would be submitted to the procurator well as featuring in US TV series Outlander, Finnich Glen has been a filming location for Netflix film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and TV drama The Nest.
BBC News
15-05-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Scots urged to be 'efficient' with water during dry spell
Scottish Water has urged customers to use supplies sparingly after the driest start to the year since 1964. People should take shorter showers and avoid using hoses, according to the company's new firm said it has been using around an extra 150 million litres of water a day since the middle of April, due to the amount of extra water being used by the public. Earlier this week the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said 23 areas surrounding major bodies of water - including the Clyde, Dee, Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay - were now experiencing some level of water scarcity. A number of areas, including Potterton near Aberdeen, Turnberry in South Ayrshire and Balfron in west Stirlingshire are having normal water supplies supplemented by tankers. In Moray, borehole supplies from the River Spey are being boosted by pumping water directly from the river to maintain normal do not expect rainfall in Scotland for another week, until at least 22 May. No hosepipe ban Advice offered by Scottish Water includes using a watering can instead of a garden hose, avoiding using sprinklers, taking shorter showers and turning the tap off when brushing also recommends using washing machines and dishwashers only when fully loaded and using a bucket and sponge rather than a hose to wash it stopped short of of announcing a full hosepipe ban, which was last needed in Plant, Scottish Water's Chief Executive, said: "We're working hard to maintain normal supplies for all customers and would ask that they use water efficiently to protect this precious resource."We believe that a large part of the additional water use at the moment is in gardens so we would ask that customers are mindful of how much water they use there."Mr Plant added "simple steps" would help maintain normal supplies, saying Scotland's climate as a whole is January to April the country had only 59% of its long-term average rainfall, with May's figures on track to be even Tuesday temperatures in parts of Scotland rose above 25C, making it the hottest day of the year so UK as a whole is currently experiencing its driest spring conditions for 130 years. It's incredibly early in the year to start talking about restricting our water use but with the dry weather having been with us now for about a month, it's no we're not expecting any significant quantities of rain to fall for another week at talk of a hosepipe ban may be premature; it needs to be approved by a minister and that hasn't ever happened since devolution. Scotland's last hosepipe ban was in speaking, water is in much greater abundance in Scotland compared with the south-east of England, where hosepipe bans are used fairly frequently, the last coming in because there's water, water everywhere, we are more free and easy with it. The average Scot is using 178 litres a day compared with 137 litres in England and advice? Slow down. And treat water much more like a precious resource by limiting our hosepipe use and not letting it drain down the plug hole unnecessarily.
BBC News
13-05-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Scotland marks hottest day of the year in long dry spell
Scotland has marked its hottest day of the year so far as temperatures in parts of the country rose above in South Ayrshire, and Tyndrum, in Stirlingshire, both recorded temperatures of 25.5C on beat the previous highest temperatures of the year on Monday by just 0.1C during the driest spring on record so far throughout the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said around half of the country was under a water scarcity alert. Forecasters have warned low levels of rain are ahead for large swathes of the country in coming rivers including the Clyde, Dee, Galloway and Nith are are subject to low water alerts. Sepa said the warm dry weather came off the back of a drier than normal winter and autumn last Johnson, Sepa's senior manager in water industry, said river levels were lower at this time in the season than in previous said the current alert meant people should be aware that water flows are beginning to "show some signs of pressure from the dry weather".Those who use water abstracts from rivers and lochs for business reasons should consider this before extracting it, she added. Ms Johnson told BBC Radio's Lunchtime Live: "We can restrict the amount of water that is taken but we would only do that when we've had really sustained dry periods and there are really low flows in the rivers."We've had below average rainfall throughout the winter and last autumn as well, and spring has been fairly dry."So we have come into the summer season with flows than we might expect to see. It has been very warm and dry."She added: "They are lower at this time in the season compared to other years." Will we ever see the rain? So is Scotland now a dry country, albeit in the weather sense?In Leuchars, Fife, it had not rained for 24 days as of Tuesday a whole, the UK is only running at 80mm of precipitation – making it the driest spring on record so Scotland weather presenter Kirsteen MacDonald said parts of the country were going into their fourth straight week without said "scarcely any" rain is forecast for the coming days, but some areas could see heavy showers over the weekend."High pressure will dominate our weather throughout the rest of this week and into the beginning of next week, resulting in settled conditions with lots of sunshine," she said."Temperatures will remain significantly above average for many too."By Sunday, we are likely to have some heavy, thundery showers break out in central and south western areas. "However, this is some way off in terms of forecasting, so the detail is subject to change."
