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Exotic petsss up for grabsss at rehoming centre
The Scottish SPCA near Dundee is seeking new homes for the exotic pets in its care. Staff at the charity’s animal rescue and rehoming centre in Petterden are currently looking after four snakes, a...
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Car thieves ‘may have used crane’
A businessman who had a £10,000 sports car stolen from his dealership has spoken of his relief that the car had been found. Gordon Leslie, who owns and runs Carnoustie Sports Cars on Barry Road,...
View Article‘We’ll help each other search for new work’
Former employees of a Tayside oil and gas company that went into administration last week have spoken of their despair at being made redundant. Axon Well Intervention Products UK Ltd, based in...
View ArticleOor virtual reality kid: Youngsters help raise fund for Archie
The Archie Foundation has kept its fundraising momentum going with the help of Tayside’s children. The Oor Wullie Bucket Trail captured the imagination of most of the area’s youngsters and adults...
View ArticleMum thanks laid-off workers for kind gift
Laid-off workers at an oil technology firm have donated to a fund for an Angus child who needs a liver transplant. Former employees at Axon Well Intervention Products donated £85 towards Kenzy Oliver’s...
View ArticleElderly couple alerted to house fire when TV stopped working
An elderly couple had to flee their home after the top floor of the property caught fire. Fire crews were called to Maule Street in Monifieth around 10.30pm on Sunday after reports of a house fire. The...
View ArticleParents’ appeal after fatal A90 crash
The parents of a man who died in a car crash in Tayside have appealed for the people who found their son’s body to come forward. Kieran Innes’s car was spotted in long grass after the one-vehicle smash...
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Dunhill Links: Dundee’s £500m parking bay as stars of screen and sport arrive
Dundee Airport is turning into the most expensive parking bay in Tayside this week as £500 million worth of private jets arrive ahead of a major golf tournament. Fifteen planes, used by A-list...
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Dundee’s teenage pregnancy progress
It was once the teenage pregnancy capital of Europe. But Dundee doesn’t even have Scotland’s highest rate of teenage pregnancies now — after new figures revealed the significant progress the city has...
View ArticleReductions in birth rates ‘are due to a range of programmes’
Ann Eriksen, NHS Tayside’s executive lead and commissioner for sexual health and blood-borne virus, said the reduction in birth rates had continued into this year. She said: “Local data, which includes...
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50,000 folk trained in vital life-saving skills
A scheme which aims to give young people training in how to save someone’s life if they have a heart attack has now taught 50,000 people across Tayside. Heartstart Discovery started in 1997, visiting...
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Natalie, 32, talks of devastating MS diagnosis
“I remember thinking, ‘this is it, this is the end for me’. Natalie Barclay was just 18 when she was given the devastating news that she had multiple sclerosis. Now 32, Natalie’s life has changed...
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Broughty Ferry woman in wheelchair after fall on High Street
A Broughty Ferry woman who has been left wheelchair-bound after a fall on an “uneven” pavement has lodged a claim against Angus Council. Joan Chalmers, 63, was walking along Montrose High Street with a...
View ArticleCarer faces misconduct allegations
A Tayside care worker is to face a disciplinary hearing over a number of allegations of misconduct while employed at a nursing home — including swinging a resident by her hands. Marie Galloway is set...
View ArticleDelays after vehicle overturns on A90
Commuters were held up this morning after a vehicle overturned on the A90. The accident happened near Stracathro, north of Brechin, just before 7am. One lane of the busy southbound carriageway was...
View ArticleSelling NHS Tayside assets is ‘worst outcome’
The idea of closing NHS facilities in a bid to balance the books in Tayside would be “the worst possible outcome for patients”, it was claimed today. North East MSP Jenny Marra was speaking after a...
View ArticleMore Tayside firms taking on local offenders
Increasing numbers of big companies are employing offenders from Tayside to help them on the road to rehabilitation. Tayside Community Justice Authority (TCJA) has been leading a drive to get convicted...
View ArticleHealth board hits back at claims of failures over debt
A health boss has hit back at claims that NHS Tayside has failed to address its spiralling debt. Chairman Professor John Connell told the Tele the health board had been “instrumental in driving the...
View ArticleTributes as Angus Provost loses cancer battle
The Provost of Angus has died after a battle with cancer. Helen Oswald passed away earlier today, at the age of 69. Mrs Oswald was diagnosed with the disease in 2015. Earlier this year she took part in...
View ArticleGirl, 2, dies in Tayside road crash
A two-year-old girl has been killed in a horror road crash in Tayside. The tot was walking on the pavement with her siblings when the collision happened in Coupar Angus at about 3.20pm today. The...
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