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Academic delivering 3,000-name petition in last-ditch bid to halt Offensive Behaviour bill
The SNP's controversial crackdown on football bigotry has worrying parallels with a ''police state'', a Dundee academic has claimed. (...)
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Opposition parties contemplate new futures after election rout
One consequence of the destruction wreaked by the SNP in last week's election is that it has now cost all three main opposition leaders their job. (...)
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SNP urged to seize new chance to introduce minimum alcohol pricing
A leading expert on alcohol abuse in Tayside has urged the new Scottish Government to introduce minimum pricing on drink just months after a previous attempt to do so was rejected. (...)
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Delay in ship-to-ship legislation a 'disgrace' — Thomas Docherty
Dunfermline and West Fife MP Thomas Docherty has condemned the UK Government's decision to delay legislation preventing ship-to-ship oil transfers by six months. (...)
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Developers take rejected Wormit housing plans to Scottish Government
Controversial plans which it is feared could increase Wormit's population by a quarter are back in the pipeline. (...)
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Opponents of Fife care homes move force emergency council meeting
The controversial vote to offload Fife's council-run care homes was "a sham" and relied on a "distortion" of previously agreed motions, opposition councillors have claimed ahead of a powder-keg meeting. (...)
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Councillor breaks silence to confirm opposition to biomass plant
Dundee councillor George Regan has spoken out in opposition to the proposed biomass plant at the harbour and said "Dundonians will not thank us" if it goes ahead. (...)
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Angus Council education, social work staff will not be spared
Angus Council leader Bob Myles has said that education and social work staff are "living in a cocoon" if they expect to be spared from the swingeing job cuts announced on Monday. (...)
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Minimum price alcohol bid voted out once again
Plans to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol were branded dead in the water on Wednesday after a Holyrood committee rejected them. (...)
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Opposition leaders respond to meeting boycott criticism
Opposition leaders on Dundee City Council have hit back at criticism over failing to attend a new board set up to decide how to make £40 million of cuts. (...)
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Cross-party snub to Dundee council cuts board looks likely
It looks increasingly likely that all of Dundee City Council's opposition political groups will boycott a board set up to discuss the £40m of cuts that will have to be made over the next three years. (...)
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Bridge of Earn over-50s-only homes plan thrown out
A protracted bid to create Perthshire's first child-free housing development has finally been defeated by the Scottish Government. (...)
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Residents voice opposition to new Ballumbie golf course plans
Householders in Burnside of Duntrune to the north of Dundee voiced anger on Thursday night at plans for a large-scale golf development in the area. (...)
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Accusation of Calliachar wind farm betrayal
The Scottish Government has been accused of betraying the people of Perthshire after plans for a fiercely opposed wind farm were approved by ministers. (...)
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Houston eyes up foreign friendly for Dundee United
Dundee United boss Peter Houston is considering a foreign friendly as the club prepare for their long-awaited return to European competition next season. (...)
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