AFTER YEARS of campaigning Scotland’s most dangerous road—the A9 north of Perth—could be upgraded to dual carriageway.

IT HAS taken 20 years of campaigning by communities in the west of Fife and Clackmannanshire, but work finally got under way yesterday on the new road bridge across the Forth at Kincardine. The 1.2-kilometre Upper Forth Crossing, as it is to be called, will cost £120 million to construct and should be open in only two years.

MINISTERS MAY not abolish the tolls on the Forth and Tay bridges even if their own impact study recommends that the charges be scrapped.

A DUNDEE businessman has been told to withdraw from sale T-shirts pleading “anyone but England” to win the World Cup or face a formal complaint to police.

A DUNDEE-BORN orthopaedic specialist named William Wallace has lifted the spirits of England fans everywhere by declaring Wayne Rooney injury-free.

DETECTIVES WERE yesterday attempting to piece together the movements of a man who walked into a Dundee city centre shop and demanded cash from staff at gunpoint.

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT leader Sir Menzies Campbell yesterday signalled a major shift in his party’s policy when he promised a 2p cut in basic rate income tax.

DUNDEE’S TWO universities have been awarded a combined £334,000 of European funding that is expected to lead to the creation of new jobs.

FOR THE first time the Ministry of Defence has given a glimpse of how it trains the elite of the RAF.

THERE ARE no immediate plans to send soldiers of The Black Watch back to Iraq for a third time, army chiefs insisted yesterday.

SCHOOL CLASS sizes must be cut if Scotland is to deliver truly world-class educational opportunities to youngsters from all corners of the community, a gathering of the country’s largest teachers’ union heard yesterday.

A PAIR of Nobel Laureates head the list of honorary graduands at Dundee University’s summer graduation ceremonies.

WITH SMOKE and fire it was like a scene from hell —but three decades on a quiet Eden has grown up in its place.

A KIRKCALDY nightclub owner has pledged to take a new approach to tackling under-age drinking.

LECTURERS IN Dundee have expressed “deep disquiet” at the terms of a pay deal agreed this week between union leaders and university representatives.

A TAYSIDE Police officer who risked his life to save a woman trapped in her van on a railway line is in the running for another life savers’ award.

TAYSIDE AND Fife MSPs cost the taxpayer almost £300,000 in expenses in the past year, according to a new system which has laid the Holyrood representatives’ claims open to minute scrutiny.

A DUNDEE student will find out tonight if he will become the newest Big Brother housemate.

ACCOLADES ARE coming thick and fast for a powerful documentary about young asylum seekers by Dundee film-maker Lindsay Hill, writes Joy Watters, arts reporter.