Coming up in Thursday’s Courier Foreign gangs of criminals

Coming Up is concerned. Very concerned.

We’ve lived in fear for years of doom-mongers telling us foreign gangs are going to arrive in Scotland to steal our women and drink our (fortified) wine.

And it appears they were not wrong.

The notorious MiddleHill Troop is being shipped en masse to a holding facility in central Scotland pending their release into public life next summer.

So terrifying are this mob, the authorities in their homeland had considered doing away with them in a very Biblical sense until they found a way to offload them on the unsuspecting Scottish populace.

Read more about this menace in Thursday’s Courier.

While you’re at it, you might as well cast your eye over the rest of the paper.

Private parking continues to be a vexatious issue and a new report details just how bad things have got.

A famous Perthshire resident has decided what her home needs is a Hagrid hut.

And we preview the Fast and Furious tribute which will see thousands of enthusiasts descend on Kirkcaldy to pay tribute to their hero this weekend.

We also have the very best national news, Specifically, this man getting a gold Blue Peter badge. Aaaay.