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Bizarre FOI query confirms Tayside Police has no need to trim haircut costs
It's official — Tayside Police has spent not a single penny on haircuts for senior officers in the past six years. (...)
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MSP claims consultant fees would have covered Fife hospital's at-threat ward
Consultancy fees paid by NHS Fife would pay for the closure-threatened hospice at Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline, it has been claimed. (...)
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Helen Eadie's 'living wage' attack prompts angry response from council leader
A political row has broken out after new figures suggested almost one in 10 council workers in Fife is paid less than the living wage. (...)
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Some startling findings among Tayside's indecent exposure statistics
Offenders as young as nine and as old as 77 have carried out indecent exposure offences in Tayside in the last three years. (...)
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'Let's see the evidence' — Muirfield Action Group questions closure-threatened school's heating assessment
The Arbroath schools merger row has taken a new twist, with alleged heating problems coming under the spotlight. (...)
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Tayside Police sending thousands of DNA samples to national database
More than 3000 DNA samples taken by Tayside Police have been submitted to the national database in the past 18 months. (...)
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Muirfield Action Group claims emails show Angus Council ignored own road safety expert's advice
Angus Council roads division raised serious concerns over pedestrian safety and traffic disruption at a proposed Arbroath school site before councillors passed the plans, it has been revealed. (...)
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Campaigners' determination finally reveals the almost £1 million paid to firm that oversaw Stracathro Hospital deal
Hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money was diverted from patient care at Stracathro Hospital, health campaigners have discovered. (...)
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'Shocking' number of attacks on Fife and Tayside ambulance crews
Ambulance crews in Tayside and Fife have been assaulted more than 50 times in the past three years — figures described as both "shocking" and "unacceptable". (...)
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Courier investigation reveals true toll of under-age drinking in Fife
A Courier investigation today reveals the startling toll under-age drinking is taking on Fife's hospitals. (...)
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Angus education chief claims unanimous support for pupil fingerprint system
Angus Council's education convener has defended a biometric identity system used for school meals, claiming the local authority has never received a complaint about it. (...)
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Inspectors uncover problems in school dinner halls
Mould, flaking walls and cobwebs were among a catalogue of problems found in Dundee school kitchens by environmental health inspectors. (...)
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Alcohol blamed for most violent crime in city
A senior police officer says alcohol is behind violence on the most dangerous streets in Dundee. (...)
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City's ASBO hall of shame revealed
A man banned from keeping a bow and arrows and a teenage girl prevented from being verbally abusive to or assaulting anyone in the city are among people slapped with anti-social behaviour orders in Dundee. (...)
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City council finally reveals members' expenses
Details of the thousands of pounds in expenses claims made by Dundee councillors have been revealed by the city council. (...)
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Provost defends rise in civic receptions bill
The amount being spent on civic receptions by Angus Council has risen almost eight-fold in the last three years, an investigation by The Courier has found. (...)
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Tayside Police may refuse freedom of information requests
Budget cuts may force Tayside Police into the radical step of refusing to entertain official government inspections, performance reviews and freedom of information requests. (...)
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Abertay University chiefs volunteer for pay freeze
The top four academics at Abertay University have taken a voluntary pay freeze this year. (...)
More on: Dundee University | Bernard King | Mike Russell | Pete Downes | Dundee
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Perth and Kinross Council spends millions on consultants
An exclusive Courier investigation can reveal that regular outsourcing of work by Perth and Kinross Council has cost local taxpayers well over £3.5 million over the last three years. (...)
More on: Kinross | Murdo Fraser | Perthshire | Perth | Scotland
