HEALTH CHIEFS are to use new tactics in the battle to fight the swine flu pandemic amid fears that cases could hit more than 100,000 a day across the UK by the end of next month.
A TOTAL of 26 former employees of a Fife haulage firm which collapsed when its parent paper mill business also failed last year have been awarded 90 days’ pay each by a Dundee employment tribunal.
CUTTING THE grass may seem harmless enough but an alarming number of fatalities across the UK has prompted Fife Council to ban its workforce from mowing slopes steeper than 15 degrees.
THE BODY of a man, thought to be in his 70s, was yesterday found in the cab of a tractor that had overturned into a burn running alongside a field at Balvraid, Sutherland, three miles north of Dornoch.
FOUNDER OF the Ladybank Company of Distillers, James Thomson, hoped to start producing a rare Scotch single malt at Peterhead Farm two years ago, but the distillery remains a dilapidated steading at the end of an overgrown track between the Bow of Fife and Pitlessie.
THE PARENTS of a Black Watch soldier from Kirkcaldy who was killed while fighting for his country in Afghanistan are firming up plans to erect a memorial to him in the town.
THE INDEPENDENT report into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dundee toddler Brandon Muir should be published by the end of next month, the man compiling it said yesterday.
PERTH AND North Perthshire MP Pete Wishart last night put pressure on the government to relax immigration laws to allow a deported family back to live in Perthshire.
PERTH TRANSPORT group Stagecoach is monitoring developments in the row between National Express and the Westminster Government over the running of the east coast main line.
A MOTHER and daughter who assaulted a woman while on a night out in the centre of Perth will appear at the town’s sheriff court for sentencing on July 29.
THE DECISION to put plans for the western expansion of St Andrews back into the melting pot has been described by its preservation trust as a “triumph for democracy.”
A PERTHSHIRE MAN has been warned he could face a significant prison sentence after he admitted three separate breaches of an anti-social behaviour order.
THE SOUTHBOUND carriageway of the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen trunk road was partially closed for around two hours yesterday following a crash at Temple of Fiddes involving a car and a tractor.
THE LENGTHY legal battle between the occupiers of holiday huts adjacent to the Barry Downs caravan site near Carnoustie and the owners of the land appears to have reached an end after an appeal against an earlier court judgement in favour of the landowners was rejected.
DUNDEE CITY Council has refused to release further details of a publicly-funded “vision” for a radical redesign of the city’s dilapidated railway station.
COUNCILLORS IN Dundee last night urged members of the public to report dangerous motorcyclists racing around the streets of the city’s housing estates to the police.
