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Hospital scanners to go from Inverness to Uganda thanks to retired Fraserburgh skipper Updated: May 4, 2021, 8:36 pm 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 retired skipper in Fraserburgh is helping to make life better for people in one of the poorest countries in the world. William Whyte has already set up a farm in Uganda,...

Updated: May 4, 2021, 2:45 pm © SNS Group Gary Irvine has been appointed manager of Forfar Athletic. The former Dundee, St Johnstone and St Mirren defender has been in caretaker charge of the Loons since Stuart Malcolm’s resignation three weeks ago. And ahead of their final League One match of the season, the club have announced Irvine has been given the reins to take the club forward. They face East Fife tonight at 7pm to bring an end to a dismal campaign that has yielded just four league w...

Drunken youths use breeze blocks to smash windows of Perth soft play Updated: May 4, 2021, 5:08 pm © Supplied by Supplied by Noahs A business owner has slammed a group of boozy teenagers who scaled a 40-foot building to smash the roof with golf clubs. Charlotte Lorimer said there was a “trail of devastation” at Noah’s in Perth, after a group of four or five boys caused thousands of pounds of damage. Police Scotland have confirmed they attended shortly after 9pm on Sunday, at Old Gallows ...

Updated: 04/05/2021, 5:34 pm © Supplied by Words with Wine Aberdonian entrepreneur to bring her love of wine and books together with new business venture. Inspired by her father’s entrepreneurial spirit, Anna Smith, who hails from Aberdeen, is on a mission to bring wine and books to the masses through her new subscription club. Pairing fine wines with much-loved novels and new releases, Anna works with her suppliers to bring together a community of grape and bookworms together with her Words...

Police have warned dog owners to keep their animals under control after three sheep were mauled and killed in Perthshire.

Updated: 04/05/2021, 6:07 pm © Supplied by Animal Equality UK and Mikeysline Hollywood actress Karen Gillan took to Twitter to express her views on the Aberdeenshire pig farm which is under investigation after pigs were filmed being hammered to death. Ms Gillan, born in Inverness and best known for her roles in Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy and Jumanji, said she was “horrified” to read the story. Mr Sleigh’s farm, P&G Sleigh Pig Unit at Oldmeldrum in Aberdeenshire, was recently the...

© D C Thomson & Co Ltd Kim Cessford, Courier - 25.10.10 - Angus House HQ for Angus Council, Orcahrdbank Business Park, Forfar - building exterior Angus housing chiefs are putting their foot on the accelerator of a Covid catch up programme for pandemic-delayed council house repairs. The authority’s planned spending on its stock is more than £2 million behind schedule for the year. Officials say that is largely due to lockdown preventing upgrade and repair projects going ahead as planned. Mon...

Weathering the storm Mr Anderson, originally from Kelso, said he fears he will have to make the difficult decision of sacrificing the standard of food they’ve been known to offer, and work with reduced kitchen staff. He said: “We built up a really good reputation in the last 15 years. We’re number one on Tripadvisor for the area and it’s been really hard work to get it to that stage. “Then Covid hit and we had to put all of our staff on furlough.” In response, Mr Anderson’s brothe...

We don’t want ‘return to normal’ for mental health services, says charity chief By Alex Cumming of SAMH May 4, 2021, 4:26 pm Updated: May 4, 2021, 6:25 pm © Shutterstock / SewCream Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up As Assistant Director of Delivery & Development at SAMH, Scotland’s national mental health charity, I’m clear about our priorities. We don’t want a ‘return to normal’ whe...

Play-offs: Who do Dundee want to face in the semi-final, Dunfermline or Raith? © SNS Group All Championship eyes will be on East End Park tonight where Dunfermline host Raith Rovers as play-off football kicks off. Who makes it all the way to the final, we’ll all have to wait and see. However, one team who knows they are at least in the semi-final is Dundee – and they’ll most certainly be keeping a keen eye on events tonight and at the weekend. Dens boss James McPake will be an interested...