NHS Tayside is to ban the sale of sugary drinks in Ninewells Hospital and Dundee’s dental hospital.

YESTERDAY HERALDED the start of the much-awaited £15 million upgrading of a Perthshire junction long branded an accident blackspot.

A young Arbroath woman, who injected a fellow drug user with heroin but then called the emergency services and remained by his side when he lapsed into unconsciousness and stopped breathing, was detained for nine months at Arbroath Sheriff Court yesterday.

TENANTS OF A Fife property company fear they could be thrown out of their homes and forced to move from the area where they grew up.

DURING A career dedicated to the advancement of surgery, Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri, of Dundee, has received many awards, including a knighthood and medals from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Dundee University rector Craig Murray said yesterday he was sorry for 219 nursing students being forced to re-sit a key exam after vital information from the paper was leaked.

GRAMPIAN POLICE have issued an appeal for witnesses following a fatal accident in which the 29-year-old driver of a Porsche was killed near Maryculter.

A MUSIC fan accused of terrifying revellers at T in the Park by scaling a 60ft speaker gantry during a headline act has appeared at the sheriff court in Perth.

IT TOOK little more than an hour for 40,000 “early bird” tickets for next year’s T in the Park to sell out—less than 48 hours after this year’s Kinross-shire festival ended.

Cheap supermarket drink may be sounding the death knell for Scottish off-licences.

MASKED Campaigners last night called for the closure of Camperdown Wildlife Centre in Dundee if the animals can’t be safely looked after.

A SIX-FOOT battery hen called Hetty joined campaigners from Advocates for Animals to hand footage to the store managers of the Perth and Dundee branches of Tesco yesterday in a bid to encourage the supermarket to end the sale of eggs from caged hens.

Tayside Police yesterday said they are ready to welcome the thousands of visitors who will descend on the area to enjoy next week’s Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie.

THE LIFE of a heroic police officer who was killed in the line of duty was celebrated at a memorial service in Dundee yesterday .

A CONVICTED killer who appeared “quite chipper” on arrival at Perth prison was found dead in his cell just hours later, a fatal accident inquiry heard yesterday.

FIFERS MAY be missing out on the annual RAF Leuchars Airshow this year but they can still see the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at the airbase.