NHS TAYSIDE CHIEFS have confirmed they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a baby in Perth following allegations that doctors “let her die.”

A PERTHSHIRE primary school teacher could become the first in Scotland to be struck off for incompetence due to a change in legislation.

MORE THAN 1000 people in Tayside and Fife have been assessed as unfit to work due to severe alcohol addiction—a figure branded “truly shocking” by a Scottish Government minister.

THE CYCLIST who died in hospital yesterday following an accident on the East Fife regional road had been warned by the police to stay off the dual carriageway.

A GRIEVING father has complained about NHS Tayside’s failure to deal promptly with concerns about his late daughter’s treatment at Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital.

PRIMARY SCHOOL pupils in Fife were introduced to the world of business yesterday after attending an interactive workshop.

SCOTTISH HEALTH Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has ruled out a parking charge freeze at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee—before getting a report she called for on the issue.

DETAILS OF what became one of the largest missing person inquiries in Scotland, the 17-year search for Falkirk schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, were given to jurors at the High Court in Dundee yesterday.

SCIENTISTS AT St Andrews University have developed a novel form of syringe formed solely from light that may help to make advances in disease detection.

OVER 100 complaints were made against Tayside Police officers in a three-month period, Dundee councillors will be told next week.

TAYSIDE AND Fife organisations and individuals were honoured during Scotland’s education ‘“Oscars” last night.

YOUNGSTERS AT Townhill Primary School returned from the Fife Schools Gymnastic Championship clutching a pair of medals, one of them gold.

NOT EVERY Scottish first division football team has its own supporters’ club in Africa, but a Dunfermline Athletic fan is working on exactly that.

A MONTROSE resident whose children have been terrorised by gangs of stone-throwing youths yesterday hit out at the inability of police to stamp out the problem.

SOME 15 TO 20 STAFF in Dundee face an uncertain future after budget clothing firm MK One went into administration for the second time this year.

DUNDEE DRIVERS had reason to celebrate yesterday as one of the city’s supermarkets dropped the cost of unleaded petrol below the 90 pence per litre barrier for the first time since April last year.

PERTHSHIRE TORY MSPs Murdo Fraser and Liz Smith are stepping up the pressure on the Scottish Government to give answers on the controversial proposed Beauly to Denny power line.

TAYSIDE’S EMERGENCY services are to reach out to more than 3500 young people in the run-up to Christmas, to implore them to drive safely.

ABERFELDY NOW has the benefit of being granted a conservation area status with effect from yesterday.

DUNFERMLINE COUNCILLOR Willie Sullivan has hit out at Fife Council’s decision to upgrade the Carnegie Leisure Centre instead of financing a new build.

WITH THE cost of a full blown bluetongue outbreak in Scotland conservatively estimated at £100 million it is hardly surprising that the whole industry is trying to keep the deadly viral disease at bay.

A RESERVE fund put aside for unexpected road repairs looks set to be “severely depleted” after Angus Council was hit with a hugely inflated energy bill for its street lighting.