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Updated: March 16, 2021, 8:03 am © Supplied A dog owner believes thieves are becoming so cocky they have no qualms about trying to steal beloved pets in broad daylight from gardens and parks following a wave of attempted kidnappings in recent weeks. Mikey Morrison contacted the police after two men attempted to “coax” his white German Shepherd, Luna, out of a private garden on Huntly Place on Sunday. Continue Reading Log in or subscribe to receive exclusive premium content, including exper...

New project launched in Aberdeen to help young people into work © Shutterstock / Pressmaster A new pilot employability support project designed to help Aberdeen’s care experienced young people into work has been launched in the city. RiteWorks, a partnership between Aberdeen City Council and WorkingRite, will support six care experienced young people in the pilot phase. The project offers a range of one-to-one and group activities, opportunities to gain qualifications and valuable work exper...

by Readers Letters © Shutterstock / CGN089 As we approach the anniversary of the first national lockdown, I’d urge people across Scotland to reflect on the efforts of frontline charities and groups who have, quite simply, kept local communities going this past year. When the world stopped, they started. They delivered food to the doorsteps of those shielding. Transferred vital mental health services online. Launched support lines to connect the isolated, and found all manner of ways to...

© Shutterstock / Tashatuvango Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Huntington’s Disease campaigners in Moray want to set up a charity to provide more help for families fighting the illness. During that time the families have won support from several local businesses. Now they have agreed to form a charity as a branch of national organisation Scottish Huntington’s Association to properly manage the funds ...

Family of Barry Dixon reveal appeal plans following culpable homicide conviction Updated: March 15, 2021, 8:49 am © Supplied by Family of Barry Dixo The family of a Perth man who was stabbed to death almost two years ago are preparing an appeal against his killer’s culpable homicide conviction and have begun a campaign for more prosecutions. Last week, Robbie Smullen was convicted of  killing 22-year-old Barry Dixon at a flat in Perth’s Wallace Court in June 2019. Smullen, 23, had pled no...

New housing development approved for Gauldry, despite fears for village life Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A new affordable housing development will lead to a 10% rise in the population of a Fife village. Councillors have approved proposals for 30 homes on prime agricultural land on the outskirts of Gauldry, currently home to 309 households. The application by Kingdom Housing Association proved divisive, wi...

St Andrews University welcomes law change which will see it confer medical and dental degrees © Steve Brown / DCT Media Medicine and dentistry degrees can now be awarded by St Andrews University after a law change. Scotland’s oldest university has been banned from being able to award full medical degrees since,1966 following a century-long battle to create a separate university in Dundee. St Andrews instead awards medics a degree in medical science, before sending them to training centres to...

© Supplied by Hargesheimer, D?ssel A week or two back I mentioned how frequently local items crop up in the most far-flung salerooms. Here’s another – a scene by Newtyle artist William Bradley Lamond consigned to a German saleroom from a collector in the Ruhr region. Oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches, but handsomely wider in its good gilt frame, Fisher Village is signed lower left, ‘W. B. Lamond’. Lamond had a studio at Auchmithie, near Arbroath, and, although by no means a regular visitor...

Two people have been cut free from a crash on the A95 near Dulnain Bridge. Fire crews used hydraulic cutting gear to free the trapped persons

Killer who went on the run in Perthshire dies in prison © Supplied by Police Scotland A killer who was caught while on the run from a Perthshire jail has died in prison. George McKay was sentenced to life in prison at the High Court in Glasgow in 1975 after being convicted of murder. Originally from the Barrhead area of Glasgow, McKay was found to have stabbed a man to death in Castlemilk. The killer made repeated attempts to escape custody throughout his sentence, but was caught by police eac...