NORTHERN CONSTABULARY appealed for the public’s help yesterday in tracing a 36-year-old Montrose woman who has been missing since Saturday evening, when she was attending the Rockness music festival at Dores on the shores of Loch Ness, writes Ralph Barnett.

RELATIVES AND friends of two Tayport people diagnosed with an invasive form of infection have been given advice to try to prevent any spread.

A CONVICTED killer has denied going on the run from an Angus jail.

A QUESTION mark is hanging over the future of the privately operated treatment centre at Stracathro Hospital, by Brechin, when the current contract runs out.

A BURNTISLAND woman who married a native American, is set to swap Fife for Washington State, following the birth of their daughter.

ONE PERSON was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness while another was rushed to Perth Royal Infirmary by road following yet another accident on the A9 north of Perth yesterday.

DUNDEE UNITED and Dundee FC say they would welcome the chance to share a newly-built stadium in the city if Scotland was chosen to jointly host the 2016 European Championships with Wales.

A PRISONER who died in Perth Prison was seen by a doctor at Dundee police headquarters a few days earlier suffering from drug withdrawal, a fatal accident inquiry at Perth Sheriff Court heard yesterday.

A SUCCESSFUL female bodybuilder from Fife has won another two top titles.

THE OWNERS of a Perthshire deer park are appealing to readers of The Courier to help them name their latest arrival.

A BORED employee in one of the most iconic buildings in the world of golf, the Royal and Ancient clubhouse, St Andrews, used one of its computers to download indecent images of girls.

ALMOST three-quarters of Scottish pupils are leaving primary school without a proper understanding of science, a national survey has found, writes Grant Smith, education reporter.

FOR A two-day festival involving well over 30,000 people, RockNess 2008 generally went well—although there was sadness, too.

FORMER FIRST Minister Henry McLeish has led tributes to East Fife stalwart Jimmy Bonthrone who died at the weekend aged 79.

RESIDENTS OF Pitkerro Road in Dundee warned that a tree branch which crashed on to the road last night could have caused a serious accident or killed someone.

A PERTH NIGHTCLUB owner has slammed a delay in re-opening a city centre road following an accident on Saturday night, claiming it has cost him almost £8000.

AN MSP HAS said figures released by the Scottish Government, detailing the proportion of court fines paid to the Treasury, are “disproportionate.”

THE HIGHEST honour Dundee can bestow—the Freedom of the City— is to be conferred on Burma’s pro-democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

A TEAM of Newport fund-raisers are preparing for the MoonWalk in Edinburgh and the Race For Life in Dundee this weekend.

A CHURCH leader has backed plans for a controversial wind farm in Perthshire.

NEWS THAT vandals have targeted schools in Perth and Kinross a staggering 1200 times in just three years has been branded “saddening and disgusting” by a politician.