What with ebola, austerity and people being stuck on bridges for four hours at a time, there’s plenty bad news to be had today.
So let’s focus on gaiety and joy instead – literally, in the case of a historic announcement made by the Scottish Government.
Same sex marriages will be all the rage come this Hogmanay with the first couples officially tying the knot in the run-up to the Bells.
While Alex Neil (health minister) was unveiling the landmark date in the capital, we were busy catching up with Courier Country couples who will be getting hitched at the turn of the year.
Read their stories in Tuesday’s Courier.
You can also read how comedian and former Dundee University Rector, Stephen Fry ensured a gay old time during a particular visit to the City of Culture.
It involved sleeping through meetings, boozing with students and dabbling with the odd exotic substance in the toilets of a local boozer.
And none of it is libellous because the funnyman wrote about it himself.
Elsewhere in the paper we test an award-winning porridge (actually, technically, a risotto but since the award was for porridge, we’re sticking with porridge).
And we have a stark warning from Fife’s finest to students about having too much fun during Raisin Week. Mind how you go.
In sport we have a full preview of Scotland’s clash with Poland laughs a’plenty guaranteed there – and a full round up from the local clubs.
So other than the first part of our series on the crisis facing GPs (vote in our poll here), politics and grim court stuff – it’s fun and japes all the way in Tuesday’s Courier.