A TRIO of serious incidents near a Fife railway station over the weekend could have had tragic consequences, British Transport Police has stated.

PRINCE CHARLES yesterday told the village of Glamis his grandmother would have been proud of the new gates which have been created in her memory at the entrance to her Angus childhood home.

THE ROYAL ceremony proved to be the culmination of a lot of hard work for a key figure behind the memorial to the late Queen Mother at her childhood home.

EMERGENCY PERSONNEL in Tayside pledged yesterday to continue to deliver front-line services should a fuel strike cripple supplies north of the border.

FIFE POLICE are searching for an armed robber who threatened staff at a bookmakers with what appeared to be a gun yesterday.

TAYSIDE POLICE chief constable John Vine (52) is to leave the force in the summer to become chief inspector of the new UK Border Agency.

JOHN VINE’S tenure as chief constable of Tayside has seen him co-ordinate the biggest policing operation the region has ever seen, but has not been without its controversies, write Lee McKelvie and Stefan Morkis.

RUMOURS THAT the multi- million project to breathe new life into Taymouth Castle has finally faltered are rife in Highland Perthshire.

A £50 MILLION village development which will see well over 200 new houses built on the western outskirts of Dundee was given the go-ahead by city councillors last night.

THE FAMILY of missing woman Linda Hill may know today if a body recovered from the sea in East Lothian is that of the Monifieth grandmother.

TAYSIDE POLICE Pipe Band’s manager remains unconcerned about an EU noise regulation law said to be causing havoc for bagpipe players in Scotland.

THE CONDITIONS of a Fife toddler and a young woman who were seriously hurt in a road accident on Sunday have improved.

POLICE were last night trying to identify a woman who fell to her death from a multi-storey block in Menzieshill earlier in the day.

THE DEATH of a young Czech worker on a farm in Arbroath may not have been completely in vain if new legislation brought about as a direct result prevents similar tragedies occurring here in the future.

A STUDENT climber who fell nearly 80 feet off a crag is still recovering in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, where his current condition is said to be “not life-threatening.”