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 03 March 2008   The Courier News Index
       

 
THEY’RE YOUNG, they’re drunk, and they don’t see the problem. That’s the stark, frightening and ironically rather sobering message coming from Arbroath’s under-age drinkers.
A DRIVER died in a serious accident on the A90 in Perthshire in the early hours of yesterday.
A HUGE search operation was launched yesterday after a pensioner went missing from his home in Highland Perthshire, writes Mark Mackay.
A SMALL Glenrothes firm’s ambitious plans to open a multi- million pound power storage manufacturing unit which could create hundreds of jobs have moved on a stage, with a site being secured at the Fife Energy Park to take the project forward.
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A MARINE mammal expert from Virginia has joined campaigners in attacking government plans that could affect the River Tay’s bottlenose dolphin population.
MOST MIGRANT workers living in Fife plan to stay there indefinitely, a study by the local authority has revealed.
A 73-year-old Dundee man remained in a serious condition in Ninewells Hospital last night after being struck by a double-decker bus in the city centre on Saturday evening.
TAYSIDE POLICE will this week launch a fresh appeal for information into the murder of Carol Lannen, whose body was found in Templeton Woods, Dundee, almost exactly 29 years ago.
ONE OF the UK’s leading experts on sustainability will issue a stark warning to Scotland’s community recycling sector when he speaks at a conference in Perth this month.
A MOTORCYCLIST badly injured in an Angus road accident has lost his fight for life, police said last night.
RESIDENTS OF Dundee’s east end may benefit from a park-and-ride facility in the future, with reports that commuters are already operating an “unofficial” system.
MEMBERS OF the Iron Age team at the Scottish Crannog Centre at Kenmore, Loch Tay have set out on a voyage of discovery to the Lofoten Islands off Norway.
INTERNATIONAL grocery chain ALDI has been granted permission to open a £2 million store in Leven.
DUNDEE ICE Arena last night vowed to do all it can to help hundreds of north-east skaters and ice hockey players who have been left out in the cold following the closure of Aberdeen’s Linx Ice Arena.
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Donald McKay McNicoll, a Dundee-born journalist who worked with the Associated Press news agency in London for 33 years, has died at 93.
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STAFF FROM Sainsbury’s in Kirkcaldy yesterday took part in the store’s Great Mile Cycle Challenge in aid of Sport Relief.
EACH YEAR a group of bereaved parents and staff from Perth Royal Infirmary arrange a short Time for Remembering, held in one of Perth’s churches.
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AROUND 50 green-fingered people put down their roots at Middleton Woods in Dundee yesterday.
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