''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 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 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 Septembe ...
, 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.
References
External links
Kilsyth ChronicleCumbernauld NewsFalkirk HeraldJohnstone Press PLC
Newspapers published in Scotland
Cumbernauld
Newspapers published by Johnston Press
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