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Heartfelt thanks: How a paddleboarder survived a heart attack on the beach in St Andrews against all the odds by Nora McElhone © Supplied by Bill Shackman Taking a snowy stroll in St Andrews, Bill Shackman looks to all intents and purposes like anyone else out enjoying the crisp winter weather. The affable north-American, who has lived in the university town with his wife Emily Michelson and their children for 11 years, is in fact filling me in on the details of his dramatic heart attack...

NATURE WATCH: hush of the wildwood © Shutterstock / Carl Day Silence, total silence. Not a rustle of wind nor a peep of bird song; just an enveloping hush seeping into every pore of this wildwood in Strathspey. This is what the dawn of time must have felt like, a mystical place where wolves and bears once roamed and where a thousand stories remain untold. I gaze with lazy eyes at the myriad of Scots pines stretching away into the distance, thin wisps of mist clinging to the tree canopy and the...

Updated: February 12, 2021, 7:28 pm © Supplied A naked thug had to be carried out of his flat by police before falsely claiming to have Covid-19 symptoms. Seven officers had to self-isolate for 10 days following Fraser Gilmour’s booze-fuelled conduct in Tayport. Gilmour, 38, removed an officer’s face covering during a violent struggle as well as making a homophobic slur. A sheriff warned Gilmour that he could be jailed after he pleaded guilty to the offences. The incident was sparked by a ...

© DC Thomson & Co. Ltd. Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An Angus no-show criminal has been given a final chance by a sheriff to avoid going behind bars for missing appearances. Kyle Williamson made it through the winter weather to appear at Forfar Sheriff Court on Thursday. But the Montrose 24-year-old was told by a sheriff he is “on the thinnest of thin ice” after a string of failures to turn up for app...

Tayside and Fife have recorded four further deaths from coronavirus, with two registered in Fife and one each in Dundee and Angus.

© D C Thomson & Co Ltd Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A leading Angus councillor has backed the authority’s ‘enough is enough’ stance after it was forced to defend staff from a rising torrent of abuse. In an unprecedented move, the council has revealed in a social media post the escalating level of incidents employees are being sub...

© Kim Cessford Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Police have advised motorists to use caution on A96 Aberdeen to Inverness road to the north of Dyce due to adverse weather conditions. Police warned of the tricky conditions on the route around 1.30am this morning and urged motorists seeking to pass to use alternative routes. A force spokeswoman said this morning that the route is “passable with care”, ...

A wildfire, reported near Laide in the north-west Highlands, has demanded the attention of 13 firefighters during the small hours

Updated: 12/02/2021, 3:56 pm © Supplied by Craig Wilson Eat on North-east chef Craig Wilson of Eat on the Green speaks out on Valentine’s Day madness having prepped for six days straight. The proprietor and head chef of the award-winning restaurant which has been running for 17 years is toasting to his most successful Valentine’s Day event which will see more than 500 people enjoy his cuisine this weekend. Craig Wilson, also known as The Kilted Chef, who owns the Udny Green-based eatery ru...

Carnoustie SNP councillor Mark McDonald said the current system was working well. “This is great for a number of reasons,” he said. “One of the main ones, however, is that it affords greater scrutiny. Scrutiny by the public who cannot watch meetings live. “It allows the public to catch up on decisions that impact them directly and gives them the opportunity for them to question us as their councillors. “Not everyone is free on a Thursday from 2pm and we have actually stumbled into so...