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Retailing is on the 'up' as Iceland sets up shop in vacant Forfar store
A major frozen food retailer is to move in to a vacant shop on a prime town centre site in Forfar. (...)
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Arbroath FC boss Sheerin may not stop at two new faces
Arbroath boss Paul Sheerin has bolstered his squad ahead of Wednesday's transfer window deadline by snapping up defender Kevin Brown and forward Pedram Ardallany. (...)
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DCA holds chess tournament ahead of Bobby Fischer film
Chess fans gathered at Dundee Contemporary Arts for a tournament to mark the screening of a documentary about one of the most talented, and most troubled, players of the game. (...)
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Groundwork being laid for Arbroath supermarket arrival
Supermarket chain Asda looks to be coming to Arbroath's Westway retail park after a 14-year wait. (...)
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East coast's 'fair-skinned Celts' among most susceptible to skin cancer
A Dundee scientist involved in skin cancer research says Tayside is a "hot spot" for skin cancer, along with the south coast of England and the Scottish Borders. (...)
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Hope that disruption from Grimsvotn ash cloud has peaked
Thousands of Scottish air passengers have been left in limbo again as ash from an Icelandic volcano grounded flights across the country. (...)
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Hopes Icelandic £1m may yet be recovered
Perth and Kinross Council is hopeful that a legal ruling could pave the way to recovering the £1 million it invested with an Icelandic bank. (...)
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Travel firm DP&L to close Arbroath branch
Arbroath's struggling High Street has been dealt another hammer blow with the news that a long-established travel agency is to shut next month. (...)
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Barbed threat in Usan Salmon Fisheries dispute
A Montrose fishery business has found itself drawn into an international row over competing salmon fishing interests. (...)
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Record number of geese at reserve
A record number of pink-footed geese have arrived at Montrose Basin wildlife reserve.
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Dundee High School pupil expelled over BB gun incident
A Dundee High School pupil has been expelled after taking a BB gun on a school trip to Iceland. (...)
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Montrose Basin sees first of winter's geese
The first pink-footed geese of an expected 50,000 set to descend on the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Montrose Basin wildlife reserve have arrived, marking the start of the wintering season for Scotland's wildlife. (...)
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The case of Bobby Fischer
A conflicted and often ridiculed figure, the chess master Bobby Fischer continues to create scandal in the world, in spite of it being two years since his death. With the settlement of a long-running paternity case in Iceland, Richard Watt examines the obsession we have with the man, 35 years after he withdrew from the public eye. (...)
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Edinburgh Fringe: Storm Large
Storm Large — yes, that is her real name — provides a searingly honest account of her underage sex, drug addiction and loneliness, in between raucous rock songs, where the six-foot blonde shakes her quite remarkable body all over the stage and tender but lyrically tough love songs that give a glimpse of the innocence beneath the wild child exterior. (...)
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Isles brought to life in Northlandings exhibition at Meffan Museum
The windsept isles of the Uists, Orkney, Shetland and Iceland come to life in a new exhibition in Forfar. (...)
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Dundee Airport passenger numbers picking up
Passenger numbers at Dundee Airport are beginning to pick up again after the disruption earlier in the year due to the volcanic ash from Iceland. (...)
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Woman cheats death in volcanic ash dash
A Fife woman whose life was saved after she cheated the volcanic ash cloud to take to the air is back on home turf. (...)
More on: Obi Agu | North Atlantic | Al Hinchcliffe | Cupar | Fife
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Laura McGhee's Celticana storms US charts
Monifieth violinist and songwriter Laura McGhee is having a good year,
touring the USA and seeing her second album spending over a month in the Americana chart top 40. She told Jack McKeown about her plans to break America.
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More on: Shane MacGowan | Monifieth | Scotland Week | Nashville | John Carter Cash
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Rosyth ferry captain's 'moment of glory' finally arrives
It might be a year late, but Rosyth ferry captain Antonio Arbilli's ship has finally come in. (...)
More on: Norfolkline | Scottish Government | VisitScotland | Tourism Flanders-Brussels UK | Rosyth
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Geologist questions volcanic ash cloud's threat
A St Andrews University geologist has said he would be "gobsmacked" if the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud caused the "apocalyptic scenario" of planes falling out of the sky. (...)
More on: Eyjafjallajokull | Adrian Finch | Civil Aviation Authority | Indonesia | British Airways
