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 09 July 2009   The Courier News Index
       

 
A MONIFIETH couple have been left in shock after the tragic and sudden death of their 44-year-old son.
A SCONE woman escaped a custodial sentence yesterday after admitting brandishing a knife at her friend after he changed the channel on her TV.
T IN the Park festival-goers diagnosed with swine flu will be asked to leave the site, medical authorities have confirmed.
TAYSIDE POLICE yesterday advised motorists going to T in the Park to try to avoid travelling at rush hour times.
SCOTTISHPOWER IS closing in on 180 million euros of European Commission funding that could advance its Longannet carbon capture programme by a year.
COLLEGES IN Dundee and Fife are to receive more than £1.1 million to enable them to take on extra students, writes Grant Smith, education reporter.
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A DUNFERMLINE Property Developer has submitted plans to Fife Council for a large hotel complex sited near Rosyth at the bridgehead to the new Forth crossing.
BUDGERIGAR BREEDERS throughout Scotland have promised support for their Brechin colleague Jim Shepherd, who had 14 birds stolen from his aviary at the weekend.
A CONSORTIUM made up of Balfour Beatty, BAM Nuttall, Morgan Est and VINCI Construction have bid for the contract to build the Forth Replacement Crossing.
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THE HEAD of the governing body for tennis in Tayside last night said clubs across the region are working hard to capitalise on the Andy Murray-inspired upsurge of interest in the game.
THE MULTI-MILLION pound players of Everton Football Club stopped off in St Andrews this week to kick-off their pre-season tour.
A FIFE builder has won his appeal against a decision by councillors to refuse him retrospective planning permission for an annexe building at a flat he owns in Leslie.
BROUGHTY FERRY beach has been in sparkling form for the start of this summer’s official water quality tests.
THE VICTIM of a fatal road accident on the A826 Amulree to Aberfeldy road on Monday has been identified as James Innes (86), of Struan Road, Perth.
QUESTIONS ARE being asked of Fife Council and the police as Cupar shopkeepers and householders cope with the aftermath of Monday’s flood.
A HIGHLIGHT on the racing calendar, the Family Race Day, takes place at Perth Racecourse on Sunday.
A MAN WHO assaulted a female police officer while she was trying to arrest him escaped jail when he appeared before Sheriff Charles McNair at Kirkcaldy.
INVESTIGATIONS ARE continuing into the cause of a fire in a quiet cul-de-sac in Downfield, Dundee, which claimed the life of an elderly woman and left a man in hospital with serious injuries.
POPULAR ANGUS singer-songwriter and Foundry Bar Band founder Jim Reid (75) has died after a long battle with dementia.
A NATIONAL campaign aimed at getting people out of their homes and into nature was launched at Loch Leven yesterday.
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BURNTISLAND YOUNGSTERS will not be able to take advantage of their new skate park until the end of the school holidays, after the project hit delays.
AROUND A dozen people a year would die were it not for the Tayside Trauma Team, which yesterday received a new vehicle, writes Marjory Inglis, health reporter.
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A £50,000 UPGRADE of the play area at Gilmerton near Crieff was unveiled yesterday. New play equipment has been installed, after consultation with local people to find out what improvements they would like to see made.
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MYSTIC READINGS and fortune-telling was par for the course at the Post Office Bar, Broughty Ferry, last night as a Dundee man raised money for the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
ONE OF the artists taking part in the artwork in London’s Trafalgar Square is Neil Scott, a former pupil at Blairgowrie High School.
STAFF AT the Scottish SPCA Wildlife Centre near Dunfermline have waved goodbye to a pair of young lapwings following a month of care.
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A NEW book examining how the Victorians transformed the study of bugs and insects from a hobby to respected science has been published by Dr John Clark, director of the Institute for Environmental History at the University of St Andrews.
RNLI VOLUNTEER Colin Stewart, 2nd coxswain of the Arbroath lifeboat Inchcape, was awarded a long service medal at the town’s lifeboat station.
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CREATIVE SCHOOL pupils are helping to promote waste awareness in Perth and Kinross.
THE SHOW will go on at Perth Theatre while some essential maintenance work is carried out this month.
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