DUNDEE WILL take centre stage in the nation’s musical calendar next month after Radio 1 announced a star- studded international line-up for their Big Weekend festival at Camperdown Park.

THE WIDOW of 46-year-old Newtyle man Davie Hepburn, who died last Friday when his motorcycle was involved in a collision with a car near Blairgowrie, has issued an open invitation to the motorcycling community to attend his funeral in Dundee on Saturday.

MAJOR LAND pollution on the site of Tesco’s distribution depot in Dundee is proving more difficult to clear up than was hoped.

INVESTIGATIONS ARE continuing into an air crash just outside Perth.

IT’S USUALLY the bride who is supposed to be late for a wedding—not the registrar.

PERTH CONCERT Hall is to be the venue for this year’s celebrated Britain in Bloom Awards ceremony.

A CHARITY fashion show organised by St Andrews University students at RAF Leuchars is expected to have raised around £10,000.

THE DUNDEE doctor with a double career as a house builder has had restrictions on his medical practice lifted after taking steps to improve his performance.

MANY MOTORISTS will wake up this morning facing the gloomy prospect of bans, fines and points added to their licences after a 24-hour blanket blitz throughout the country on errant drivers, particularly those speeding or failing to buckle up.

AN INMATE who blamed prison officers for the loss of his designer clothes was yesterday ordered to pay the Prison Service £75 expenses, despite a sheriff agreeing they had lost his property.

THERE HAS been a threefold increase in drugs seizures at Castle Huntly Young Offenders’ Institution and Perth prison.

A PERTHSHIRE man who launched a foul-mouthed tirade against the Queen on her 80th birthday will spend the next two months in prison.

THIS YEAR’S Safe Taysiders Event was yesterday launched by Tayside Police at Perth Racecourse.

THE BLACK WATCH is to be given the Freedom of Fife, only the second time the honour will have been conferred since the scheme was inaugurated in 1997.

A DUNDEE MOTHER says she will no longer let her young son play outside after finding discarded hypodermic needles in a garden in the Charleston area.

THE RESTRICTED access to Dundee docks could be a disaster waiting to happen, according to a local haulage contractor.

ANGUS IS working towards a protocol aimed at providing a helping hand to pull new buyers up on to the property ladder.

SCOTTISH NATURAL Heritage’s new Inverness headquarters have achieved the highest environmental rating of any new building.

A TRACTOR driver had a lucky escape yesterday when the tractor he was driving caught fire amid a field blaze next to the A90 dual carriageway just north of Dundee.

MONITOR FARMS look set to be an ongoing feature in SEERAD’s latest forward strategy.