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Updated: January 30, 2021, 3:16 pm © Supplied by Shutterstock Tayside and Fife have recorded 10 deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours. Fife recorded four deaths, Perth and Kinross and Dundee both recorded one, while four deaths were registered in Angus. The area also saw 89 new cases, down from 122 on Thursday. The new positive cases include 11 in Angus, 21 in Dundee, 25 in Perth and Kinross and 32 in Fife. It comes as Scotland records a further 60 deaths from coronavirus in the past 24...

WALK THIS WAY: Familiar monuments can be seen on the Cortachy circuit, Glen Prosen by Alan Rowan © DC Thomson The Airlie Memorial Tower on Tulloch Hill at the foot of Glen Prosen is a familiar landmark from miles around, but the climb to it is all too brief, writes Alan Rowan. When combined with a lower-level circuit around the nearby village of Cortachy, however, it provides a satisfying walk packed with history and mystery which will keep the young ones entertained. The small woodland...

Rare Suffragette medal commemorates courageous Nellie Godfrey © Dix Noonan Webb The ‘suffragette’ medal awarded to Miss Nellie Godfrey, who was arrested and imprisoned for throwing a missile at Winston Churchill’s car in 1909, was offered by Dix Noonan Webb on January 13. The silver medal was enamelled in the colours of the Women’s Social and Political Union, Mrs Pankhurst’s militant wing of the Edwardian suffrage movement. It was inscribed ‘Hunger Strike’, with ‘Nellie Godfrey...

Police probe after break in and theft from archery centre in Fife © Kim Cessford Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Police in Fife are investigating the theft of equipment following a break-in at an archery centre in Thornton. The break-in happened sometime between 10.45am on Saturday, January 23 and 10.45am on Friday, January 29 at Forest Spirit Archery Centre Strathmore road in the town. Officers investigatin...

© Supplied by Police Scotland Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Highland police have issued a warning to ‘selfish’ drink and drug drivers after three people were charged in the past few days. Sergeant David Miller from the road policing division in Dingwall, said it was disappointing after the incidents occurred in ...

© DC Thomson Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Ambitious proposals to develop one of the UK’s largest solar farms in Angus have re-emerged. In 2019, people power led to the plug being pulled on a scheme for a huge swathe of hillside near Fowlis, close to the county’s border with Dundee and Perthshire. But a new developer has now approached Angus Council over the potential of a 300-acre site south of the Pi...

Updated: January 30, 2021, 10:20 am Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A woman has been taken to hospital after her van overturned on Holburn Street in Aberdeen this afternoon. Emergency services were called to the incident at about 3.30pm. A Citreon van rolled and landed on its side in front of the Riverside Chiropractor...

Updated: January 29, 2021, 11:36 am © Supplied by Dundee City Council Dundee City Council’s leader has praised the Eden Project’s new “guilds” and multiple city sites idea as “exciting”. Following a six-month feasibility study last year, the Eden Project has announced plans to create the “nine new guilds of Dundee” – with each having its own identity and embassy. The project hopes to create locations across the city with some venues being permanent, and others pop-up. Togethe...

© Kenny Smith The lighthouse without its lantern after being struck by a Russian ship as it left Burntisland Harbour. 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 An investigation has been launched after a Russian cargo vessel crashed into Burntisland Harbour and collided with a lighthouse. The Russian registered Mekhanik Pustoshnyy was leaving Burnti...

UK variant of Covid-19 found in Western Isles as hospital outbreak doubles Updated: 29/01/2021, 11:25 am © Sandy McCook A Covid-19 outbreak at a hospital in the Western Isles has doubled in just 24 hours. Gordon Jamieson, chief executive of the health board, said six new cases had been confirmed at the Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway, bringing the cluster total to 12. The majority of cases involve hospital staff. More than 60 people are self-isolating as a result. There have been no new po...