Tayside County, Scotland News

THE Blairgowrie and East Perthshire Tourist Association is again organising a series of activities in the Blairgowrie and Rattray area over the St Andrew's Day weekend for the benefit of visitors and the local community.

THE chairman of Forfar Community Council has welcomed the news that Angus Council has entered into a A 66,000 contract with Stagecoach Strathtay to ensure the continuation of vital bus services in the town.

FOLLOWING an intensive judging process, the judges have chosen the finalists for this year's highly-prestigious Angus Ambassador Awards.

A PLAQUE, awarded to Brechin's Photographer of the Year, with inscriptions from 1905 to 1935, has been reunited with members of the Brechin Photographic Society, having been found in a farm steading in Glen Esk where it has lain for the past 70 years or more.

THE Fallen in two world wars and other conflicts will be remembered at a Service of Remembrance at the War Memorial in the Wellmeadow, Blairgowrie, on Sunday to which all ex-service men and women and members of the public are invited.

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Highland Spring LTD, recently voted as a UK Superbrand , has contracted with Savi Networks to provide wireless monitoring for exported shipments of Highland Spring water.

THE performance of pupils in schools in Blairgowrie and East Perthshire continues to improve.

The Scottish housing market is showing further signs of recovery as house prices rose by an average of 6% in the third quarter of 2009.

KIRRIEMUIR community councillors have branded a recently-created junction in Lindsay Street "crazy and stupid." And, at the monthly meeting held last midweek, it was agreed to write to Angus Council's roads department, asking officials to revisit it before work is carried out to resurface the whole stretch of the arterial route to the west of town.

In an interesting piece in today's G2 by Allegra McEvedy , she discusses Defra's campaign to increase the number of UK food products with protected status and points out that Britain has just 38 protected food names compared to over 300 from France and Italy.

The Scottish housing market is showing further signs of recovery as house prices rose by an average of 6% in the third quarter of 2009, figures have revealed.

TWO Blairgowrie people will appear for trial at Perth Sheriff Court on February 1, charged with assault.

A PROMISING teenage footballer who was killed in a road accident has been named as the grandson of a former Perth provost and councillor.

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BRECHINERS have stepped up in their bid for urgent action to alleviate the flooding problems which are affecting the city all too frequently these days.

MEMORIES stirred by a recent "Brechin Advertiser" article prompted one reader with more than a passing interest in the subject matter to get in touch to recall her own personal memories of Brechin's first world War II casualty Andy Middleton.

TAYSIDE Police are appealing for information after an attempted distraction theft at a Forfar supermarket last Wednesday which was followed, a little over an hour later, by a theft in an Arbroath store.

EMERGENCY service teams were involved in rescue operations across Scotland today as heavy rains caused widespread flooding.

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