A FORFAR FAMILY has been rocked by a second tragedy in just six months after the body of missing wife and mother Moira Vivian was found yesterday.

A SHERIFF heard yesterday how two rival families armed with swords, baseball bats and golf clubs attacked each other in a free-for-all on the streets of a small Fife village.

CONSERVATION WAS the theme of the opening day of the 2008 Tay salmon season—and didn’t Tay anglers conserve well!

MORE THAN 5000 former staff of NHS Tayside will have waited over four years before the authority even starts to calculate back pay due to them.

ACTIVISTS DRESSED as giant animals marched on Holyrood yesterday calling for a ban on snares.

PEOPLE LIVING in the east of Scotland may have thought the mornings have been a bit nippy of late, but they should spare a thought for the men of 45 Commando Group, who for the next few months will be facing temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius and living in tents.

DUNDEE ENJOYS by far the best provision of sheltered housing in Scotland, new figures have shown.

THE SECOND round of The Courier/Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland Junior Schools Debating competition started last night with a debate in which the speakers discussed Darfur.

TAYSIDE POLICE yesterday swooped on a “cannabis farm” in Perthshire.

THE SNP is still enjoying unprecedented popularity almost eight months after forming a government.

FOR A midweek day, more than 1300 skiers out at the four centres open was reckoned a reasonable tally yesterday.

ALMOST A YEAR after the SNP made a series of pre-election promises to dual the A9 between Perth and Inverness, an opposition MSP has expressed “extreme disappointment” over the lack of progress thus far.

ONE OF the two clifftop golf courses at the Fairmont St Andrews hotel and leisure complex near St Andrews is to remain closed for over a year as is it undergoes major improvements in advance of its use as a 2010 Open Championship venue.

TRAFFIC LIGHTS have been moved into place on the Tay Road Bridge as preparations start for the £260,000 removal of the toll booths.

A HISTORIC Mearns mansion could soon be home to English premier league football stars, with its sale due to be concluded to a sports therapy business with close links to Manchester United.

DOGS COULD face canine ASBOs and their owners long jail sentences if their animals pose a danger to the public under a tough new law proposed yesterday.

ONE WEEK on from a fatal head-on collision which claimed three lives on the A92 north of Montrose, Grampian Police are to stage a roadside check at the scene today.

A FIFE MUM whose five-year-old son was killed by a speeding driver is helping to ensure other bereaved families receive the support they need.

A FIFE timber firm has reported extremely encouraging financial results for the first half of the financial year.

ICY PAVEMENTS on Dunkeld Bridge are forcing pedestrians onto the roadway and into danger, a local man has claimed.

A DUNDEE millionaire, who was running Downfield Post Office just 15 years ago, is about to embark on the biggest adventure of his life with a £1.5 billion theme park development in New York State.

A MAJOR search was launched in Montrose last night for a missing man.