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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.