DETAILED PLANS for Scotland’s first eco-town, which would mean a five-fold increase in the size of a Fife village, were officially unveiled yesterday.

MSPS HAVE voted to abolish the graduate endowment charge paid by students after they finish their degrees.

JURORS AT the High Court in Dundee listened yesterday to a series of increasingly frantic phone calls made over a two-hour period to NHS 24.

KIRKCALDY MUM Joyce Fegen celebrates a major milestone today when she finally gets to be a teenager!

OFFICIALS AT the Forth Road Bridge are confident the de-humidification system will solve the corrosion problem in the structure’s main support cables.

DOZENS OF jobs are to be axed at Dundee company Texol Technical Solutions as a result of it going into administration.

A PUBLIC inquiry will be held into Donald Trump’s controversial plans to build a £1 billion golf resort near Aberdeen.

CLAIMS THAT Kirkcaldy’s esplanade resembles “the backside of an elephant” have been strongly refuted by the area’s MSP and town centre manager.

A ST ANDREWS researcher has made a discovery that might assist in developing future treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, the incurable and fatal disease which affects around 700,000 people in the UK, 56,000 of them in Scotland.

A JURY took nearly 31/2 hours to find the case against a Fife man accused of biting part of someone’s nose off not proven.

COUNCILLORS HAVE seen at first hand the potential for a hovercraft service between Alloa and the capital.

GUIDE DOGS for the Blind chiefs have given a warm welcome to a seven-figure legacy from an octogenarian north-east art teacher whose modest lifestyle hid a multi-million pound shares portfolio.

NHS TAYSIDE yesterday announced plans to improve security at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, as two men were jailed for incidents of assault and theft at the hospital.

A PRISONER accused of escaping during a visit to Perth Royal Infirmary made a second appearance at Perth Sheriff Court yesterday.

MONTROSE SKATEPARK campaigners’ hopes of seeing seven years of hard work realised were sunk last night after an eleventh hour U-turn over the planned £85,000 facility.

SNP MSPS at the forefront of the campaign to scrap tolls on the Forth and Tay bridges have presented The Courier with a signed copy of the Abolition of Bridge Tolls (Scotland) Act 2008.

THE FRIENDS of Perth and Kinross Council Archive hosted a talk yesterday that celebrated 500 years of Scottish printing.

RESEARCHERS AT Dundee University have been given the go-ahead for a new project to improve prescribing by family doctors.

MEDIUMS YESTERDAY petitioned the Scottish Parliament calling for a pardon for all those convicted of being witches, writes Steve Bargeton, political editor.

POST OFFICE users in Tayside and Fife will not find out until May which of their branches are earmarked for closure.

A DUNDEE man has beaten the odds and last night received a windfall of £105 from betting giant Ladbrokes after he disputed their refusal to pay out on a football bet.

BBC RADIO Scotland’s Tom Morton faced a fight for his job yesterday from two pupils from Dundee’s Baldragon Academy, desperate for their break into broadcasting.

PERTH AND KINROSS Council and local firm Sidey yesterday reached a landmark in their five-year project to install around 7700 new kitchens in council homes across the area.

TAYSIDE MOUNTAIN Rescue Team has received another generous boost from a hotel with which it has enjoyed an excellent long-standing relationship.

SECOND YEAR PUPILS at Arbroath High were given an insight of what it is like to trade as a third world country at a Fair Trade event at the school yesterday.