DUNDEE LEISURE, the company that runs the city’s leisure facilities, was fined £40,000 at the sheriff court yesterday for “substantial and largely systemic” health and safety breaches that led directly to the drowning of seven-year-old Luke Hutton at the Olympia Leisure Centre.
IN THE early hours of the day she died, a 17-year-old Arbroath woman was arguing with her boyfriend and threatened to leave him, a casual friend of the couple told the High Court in Livingston yesterday.
A FIFE man can take a real trip down memory lane, thanks to a series of coincidences that has led to him being reunited with his late grandfather’s 1936 Model Y Ford.
MINISTERS YESTERDAY published the legislation to pave the way for the the new Forth Road Bridge—but were unable to say where they would find the £2 billion to pay for it.
YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT on the new Forth Road Bridge has not pleased everyone, with environmentalists calling the new bridge a costly mistake for Scotland and campaigners urging the government to save the country £2 billion and repair the existing Forth Road Bridge itself.
A NEW DRUG resistant strain of the swine flu bug is “not of huge concern,” the Scottish Government has said, after reports a Fife resident was among two Scots infected.
THERE HAS been a pledge from Fife Council emergency planning team to try and improve its response to major incidents, in the wake of criticism this month.
A FIFE councillor has called on the council to postpone plans for new IT equipment for the region’s councillors at a time when the region’s concessionary rail travel is under threat.
A COMPETITION held at St Andrews University and featuring some of the world’s leading young viola players has been won by Daniel Palmizio (23), from Italy.
A SHERIFF yesterday ordered a man to travel to Perth from the south coast of England to explain how trying to kill a wasp in his van caused him to nearly run over two policemen.
THE COMMUNITIES of Newburgh, Anstruther, Cellardyke and Crail are to be consulted over proposals to introduce a speed limit of 20mph in residential areas.
A LEADING Tayside GP has warned that it may yet be a couple of weeks before all of the region’s priority patients receive swine flu vaccinations, and appealed for patience from the public.
WEST END Councillor Fraser Macpherson has called for urgent action by Dundee City Council to rethink its policy of not replacing street lights after they have been damaged by vehicles and the cost cannot be recovered from the drivers.
