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Contents 1 G8 2 Population 3 Twinning 4 Royal burgh 5 CFD

[edit] G8

I've deleted the paragraph about the G8 summit because I don't think it belongs here. If every event happening in Stirling was added to the page it would quickly become unmanageable. -- Orourkek 09:06, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Population

I updated the city population from 40,000 to 78,833, per the 2001 census information at [1]. I didn't update the regional total of 85,000 (as the 2001 census was for central region, not Stirling Council). I suppose only Bridge of Allan and Dunblane are particularly large, but all the myriad wee places in Stirling Council's Northern extent will surely add up to quite a bit. If anyone has a reasonable source (or even just the size for Dunblane) then we can update the regional total. -- Finlay McWalter 00:50, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Twinning

Stirling council isn't terribly consistent about the twinning status of Dunedin:

• In [2] they say "Stirling is twinned with Villeneuve d'Ascq in France, and we have a 'friendship link' with Dunedin in Florida, USA."
• But in [3] they say "Stirling’s twin town, Dunedin, Florida"

So I erred on the site of inclusion, and marked both Duneidin and Villeneuve-d'Ascq as full "twin towns". -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:35, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

Dunedin has always refereed to Stirling as a "sister city" so I assumed it was reciprocal. PlainSight 20:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

"Twinning" is the term used in the UK (I'd never heard of a "friendship link" until today); "sister city" and "twin city" mean the same thing (per town twinning). "Friendship link" sounds rather second rate, but it doesn't seem to deter Stirling's councillors from making "fact finding" trips, no doubt including "tourist studies" of Disneyworld :) -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 21:10, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

LOL. Well, at least I'm glad to see that it's not only small-town politicians in the US that go on "fact finding" junkets at the taxpayer's expense! Obviously it's an international political perk. -PlainSight 01:16, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Royal burgh

This can't be right:

"Stirling was a royal burgh until 2002"

All burghs were explicitly abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 Lozleader 21:50, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CFD

--Mais oui! 09:55, 24 July 2006 (UTC)