ONE OF Scotland’s top hotels has been named as the possible source of a killer case of legionnaires’ disease.

THE LEGAL AGE for buying alcohol in Scotland could be raised from 18 to 21 in a bid to tackle the country’s drink problem—but the head of a Tayside alcohol dependency support group has already poured cold water on the proposal.

SCOTS ROCK fans have played a starring role in a ceremony Down Under to celebrate a famous son of Angus.

PERTHSHIRE POLITICIANS yesterday held “useful and frank” discussions with Grampian Country Foods following the announcement almost 100 jobs are likely to be lost at the firm’s Coupar Angus factory.

A FIFE councillor has raised concern over the possible catastrophe that could have occurred as firefighters tackled a blaze in the north-east Fife community of Kettlebridge on Thursday night.

DR PAT McPHERSON, one of Dundee’s leading industrialists and a man who worked tirelessly to help raise millions of pounds for cancer research, has died at the age of 91.

THE CAMPAIGN to save a Perth leisure centre from closure is continuing to gather momentum—even though the centre’s owners have been accused of “not lifting a finger” to help.

POLICE IN Dundee are continuing the hunt for a robber who fled after being chased out of a Dundee church by an angry priest.

A 15,000 CAPACITY dance festival is being planned for Errol Airfield in August.

THE WAR of words over the future of Perth’s Cherrybank Gardens continued yesterday with a claim that it might be time for Scotland’s Garden Trust (SGT) chief executive Peter Fairlie to step down.

DUNDEE WILL be the home of a new multi-million-pound police forensics laboratory if plans before the Scottish Government get the go-ahead.

A PERTHSHIRE MP has been criticised by rival politicians after he failed to oppose a “devastating” programme of post office closures during a critical Westminster vote.

ARBROATH COUNCILLOR Jim Millar has welcomed the addition of a colour print of the missing portrait of the Queen Mother to the Portrait of Angus exhibition, which opens today at The Meffan in Forfar.

POLICE IN Tayside have been heartened by spot checks on more than 100 vehicles which found no major breaches of road safety law.

A GROUP of Egyptian belly dancers in Glamis are inviting people of all ages to join them at a special fund-raising evening.

ALMOST 300 fans of chart band The Enemy packed into the Zavvi store in the Wellgate last night.

AFTER A career spanning nearly 50 years with D. C. Thomson & Co Ltd, reporter Ken Bell retires today.

AN ALL-DAY rock event organised by cancer survivor Lyndsey Tinney raised £3180 for the neurosurgery ward at Ninewells Hospital.

THE NEW Angus flag has been left the only one flying on the City Hall in Brechin after high winds yesterday brought down the Saltire.

COUPAR ANGUS Heritage Youth Group is presenting a play next week to inform the local community about its history.

DUNDEE’S enterprising teenagers have been singled out for praise after they displayed their tech-savvy approach to making money in a nationwide survey.