End of the school holidays can't come soon enough, says Anna Burnside
WILL they never end? Not the horrors of Brexit and Theresa May leading the country while Boris Johnson is running the Foreign Office, although these are horrendous enough. I mean the school holidays....
View ArticleAyr United boss Ian McCall says keeping key players fit will be vital
Ian McCall watched his Ayr United side squeeze past SPFL new boys Edinburgh City 1-0 and warned: We can’t do without key players. City soaked up waves of pressure and almost sneaked a penalty...
View ArticleEmergency search operation launched after man is seen swimming fully clothed...
AN emergency search operation has been launched after a man was seen swimming fully clothed in the River Tay. Police are appealing for information to establish the whereabouts of the man who was seen...
View ArticleAllison McGourty's major new TV series kicks off Perth's Southern Fried Festival
Perth’s Southern Fried Festival of American roots music will kick off on Thursday week (July 28) with the UK premiere screening of ‘American Epic: Out of The Many, The One’. This is a sneak peek of a...
View ArticlePerthshire's ancient timber circle is older than the Egyptian pyramids
An ancient timber circle unearthed near Crieff’s Pittentian Farm was occupied by humans as early as 3000BC – 300 years before the first pyramid was built – according to research results. Carbon dating...
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Andy's Oak Tree from iconic movie The Shawshank Redemption is blown down in...
A TREE that became a popular attraction for its role in the film The Shawshank Redemption has been blown over. High winds last week downed the tree, which had previously split during a storm in 2011....
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First look at the homes that will make up last stage of £17m Muirton...
Work will begin this Autumn on the final stage of Perth’s Muirton regeneration. More than 200 affordable and private homes will be built on the site near Asda, after PKC gave the £17 million project...
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Fake Valium pills cause five deaths in one day as grieving families say bogus...
BLUE PLAGUE fake Valium pills have been linked to five deaths in one day in Glasgow last month, a city drug worker has revealed. The source said: “It was referred to as Black Wednesday. “There’s a...
View ArticleShotts man calls for action to tackle rubbish being dumped on the Main Street
A resident this week called for action to tackle rubbish being dumped in Shotts Main Street. Fed-up Gordon Stewart sent us pictures of several bins blocking footpaths and obstructing disabled access...
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BT Sports 1 Sky 0: Why the broadcasting newcomers do Scottish football better
BY the end if it they couldn’t even look at each other. There stood Chris Sutton , all 1.19m of him; a former Celtic , Chelsea, England and Premier League winner with Blackburn, sneering and unable to...
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Project Gambia: People Feeding People send aid from Lanarkshire to Africa
Lanarkshire-based charity Project Gambia: People Feeding People last week dispatched their latest consignment of much-needed clothing and goods to school pupils in the poverty-stricken region of...
View ArticleRBS warns businesses of potential credit balance charges
Royal Bank of Scotland and subsidiary Natwest have warned businesses they may introduce charging to accept deposits as a result of low interest rates. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, which remains...
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Scottish women who reached their target weight share their stories
KIM KARDASHIAN piled on the pounds after giving birth to her son, Saint, last December, but reached her target weight this month. After just seven months, and a special high protein, low-carb diet,...
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Aberdeen 1 NK Maribor 1: Jonny Hayes nets late equaliser at Pittodrie and...
JONNY HAYES struck an 88th-minute equaliser for Aberdeen as they drew 1-1 with Slovenian side NK Maribor. At a sun-kissed Pittodrie, the Dons had plenty of opportunities on goal and looked the better...
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Aberdeen player ratings as Dons held by Maribor in pulsating Europa League clash
ABERDEEN have made a habit of rising to the occasion in Europe in recent years and Thursday night was no different with another excellent performance against Slovenian cracks Maribor in the Europa...
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Alan Cummings' off-script Brexit comment ended in jeers, says Torcuil Crichton
ACTORS, don’t you love them? I do, actually. Their craft of exposing the emotions we, the audience, keep hidden from ourselves takes as much courage as bearing arms. But never leave an actor without...
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Celebrity Big Brother star Grant Bovey says ex-wife Anthea Turner didn't...
CELEBRITY Big Brother star Grant Bovey has admitted his ex-wife Anthea Turner didn’t deserve the way he treated her. The 54-year-old bankrupt, who dumped Anthea for 27-year-old socialite Zoe De Mallet...
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Judo star Stephanie Inglis targets return to sport after crash which left her...
JUDO star Stephanie Inglis has thanked the people who donated cash towards her medical care after a freak motorbike accident in Vietnam left her fighting for her life. Stephanie, from Inverness, was...
View ArticleTeens vandalise Cambuslang Street and intimidate residents
Residents in a Cambuslang street are calling for more police support after a drunk teenager told them they were “gettin’ it” when youths vandalised their property. People living in Castle Chimmins...
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Pope Francis pays sombre silent vigil as he visits Auschwitz Nazi death camp
Pope Francis has paid a sombre visit to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. He became the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler’s forces killed...
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