The Kirkintilloch Herald is a weekly tabloid newspaper serving the Kirkintilloch area of East Dunbartonshire, in Scotland.
It is edited and printed in Kirkintilloch, and is known locally as the Kirky Herald.
The newspaper was founded in 1883[2] in premises on the Cowgate by town businessman Donald MacLeod.
It has been published by Johnston Press since the early 1970s.
[3] The paper has often been at the forefront of local causes, including a long-running but ultimately unsuccessful campaign to save accident and emergency and in-patient services at Stobhill Hospital.