Alloa

British

/ ˈæləʊə /

noun

a town in E central Scotland, the administrative centre of Clackmannanshire. Pop: 18 989 (2001)

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A 26-year-old man is due to appear before Alloa Sheriff Court on Monday.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

Megan Scott is one of more than 460 students at the Alloa campus, where she is studying beauty therapy.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

They turn to jelly when the ball is delivered into their box, not just on Wednesday, but against Motherwell and Dundee and St Mirren and Alloa.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

Djiga getting himself sent off against Dundee, playing dead while Alloa broke away for a goal, and gifting the opener to Brugge last week.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

He was comfortably planted at Alloa, instead of Kirkaldy, which all our readers know lies in a very different direction; and this denouement also explains the captain's displeasure with his passenger, and the engineer's mirth.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

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