''The Cumbernauld News & Kilsyth Chronicle'' is a local paper serving the areas of

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; gd, Comar nan Allt, meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated t ...

and

Kilsyth Kilsyth (; Scottish Gaelic ''Cill Saidhe'') is a town and civil parish in North Lanarkshire, roughly halfway between Glasgow and Stirling in Scotland. The estimated population is 9,860. The town is famous for the Battle of Kilsyth and the relig ...

and all the other villages in between the two towns.

History

Originally two separate newspapers, the two joined and became sister papers along with the

Falkirk Herald ''The Falkirk Herald'' is a weekly newspaper and daily news website published by National World. It provides reportage, opinion and analysis of news, current affairs and sport in the towns of Falkirk, Grangemouth, Larbert, Stenhousemuir and ...

. The Chronicle was a local paper for the town of Kilsyth and surrounding areas, until the Cumbernauld New Town was created and with a small local paper, The Cumbernauld News created in June 1961 by the Falkirk Herald less than a week before a paper, the Cumbernauld Courier, was started by the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser. The locals mostly bought the News and the Courier eventually closed. Then in an attempt to boost sales of the Chronicle and News they joined as one paper for both towns. Cumbernauld HIT, a CDC sponsored comedy film from 1977, features the Cumbernauld News largely in its plot. With hints of The Avengers and

Taggart ''Taggart'' is a Scottish detective fiction television programme created by Glenn Chandler, who wrote many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV network. It originally ran as the miniseries "Killer" from 6 until 20 September 19 ...

, it about an evil woman's plan to hijack the New Town of Cumbernauld with a bio-weapon and the attempts of Noddy News journalists to stop her. There are many shots of the old Town Centre and the Cumbernauld News offices from the inside throughout the promotional film.

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Kilsyth ChronicleCumbernauld NewsFalkirk HeraldJohnstone Press PLC
Newspapers published in Scotland Cumbernauld Newspapers published by Johnston Press {{scotland-newspaper-stub