Important announcement

Due to operational issues we have had to suspend our food waste collection service for a number of streets in Milngavie and Bishopbriggs today.

If your food waste bin is not collected today, please take in your bin and present on the next collection day, Friday 14 November.

Brown and blue collections in a small number of streets in the Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch area are also affected. If your brown and blue bins has not been emptied today, please leave it on the kerbside for collection and it will be collected by the service at the earliest opportunity.

Our teams will be working hard to minimise the impact, and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

See list of streets affected.

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Official Opening of Milngavie Heritage Centre Group’s Spring Exhibition

This weekend saw the official opening of the Milngavie Heritage Centre Group’s Spring Exhibition by Provost Gillian Renwick.

Fittingly, as it is Local History Month, the exhibition is entitled ‘‘The Milngavie Connection – Who’s Who’ and looks at the noted personalities whose life stories have helped shape Milngavie’s history. It centres around well-known characters like George Bennie, Margaret Cunnison, Tom Johnston, Helen Lillie, Anna Moffat, James Watt, Flora Wood and John Woodburn.

Provost Renwick said,

This is an excellent display, shining a light on some of our brightest stars who have lived here,

Exhibition ends 4 May

changed the political landscape, written about the area, captured its beauty through art, sung of its special qualities and others who have had a significant impact on industry at home and abroad. It is well worth a visit.”

The exhibition runs in Milngavie Library until Saturday 4 May 2024.