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Boost for Aberdeen as Flybe snaps up three daily slots to London © Supplied by Kami Thomson Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Air passengers in the north-east have been given a boost after newly-resurrected Flybe snapped up 36 weekly flights to London. The airline has bought the slots from British Airways, along with 50 weekly journeys – 25 departures and 25 arrivals – from Edinburgh Airport to Heathr...

By Readers Letters © Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP/Shutterst Do we think it’s all over? Most folk in the UK probably think so, with the easing of lockdown restrictions. But I would urge a bit of caution because we’ve been here before and look what happened. Remember last summer when infection rates were low and then Christmastime, after alleviation of the rules. We again saw increased infection rates and more lockdown restrictions. So what’s different this time? Well since last year we’...

Updated: April 28, 2021, 10:16 am © Supplied by Supplied Mid Craigie tenants have claimed rubbish woes are being ignored by the local authority – so much so that a resident has become a makeshift street cleaner. Karen Dixon and her husband John have lived in the scheme for the past 20 years and cited a lack of bin provisions and reduced street cleaning as the cause of the constant mess at Valgreen Court and Leyshade Court. The couple contacted Dundee City Council after five bags of rubbish w...

Updated: April 29, 2021, 10:57 am © Gareth Jennings/DCT Media Resident Pauline Jackson with some of the damaged saplings at the Arbroath site. Travellers have been moved on from Arbroath land after a ten-day stay behind a former town hospital. Locals said they had been “totally scunnered” by the round-the-clock noise caused by the encampment near the old Little Cairnie site. The have claimed the travellers dumped toilet waste in nearby woods and damaged trees planted earlier this year by t...

Updated: April 29, 2021, 10:57 am © Supplied by Gemma Mutch To go with story by Lindsey Hamilton. cats targeted in Fintry Picture shows; prince. Dundee. Supplied by Gemma Mutch Date; Unknown A distraught cat owner has described how she watched her beloved pet die in front of her in Fintry – in what she fears could be a deliberate poisoning. Gemma Mutch, 24, from Finlaggan Crescent, looked on in horror as her much loved cat, Prince, died on Saturday. Gemma said: “It was awful. I was totally...

There will also be a floodlit multi-use games area available for hire. Alan Fakley, treasurer at Pact, is hopeful they’ll be able to hit the ground running soon, having secured the funding for the first phase of the masterplan. He said: “When developing the project in Peterhead, we really want to make a lasting difference to the lives of people within the community for many years to come. “Our aim is to improve the life conditions for people, who may be vulnerable and in hardship, and to ...

Busy night for Oban lifeboat crew with two emergency call-outs Updated: April 28, 2021, 3:13 pm © Supplied by RNLI Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Oban lifeboat volunteers were scrambled last night following reports of a person in the water and a sailing dinghy that was adrift. The RNLI crew were called to reports of someone in the was in Loch Feochan at around 9.15pm. It is believed the person was clin...

Dundee United Scottish Cup winner Jon Daly talks Duolingo, ice-swimming, Jonatan Johansson and Hearts exit as he relishes role in Finland © Supplied by Jon Daly Jon Daly has thrown himself in at the deep end during his time in Finland — in a very literal sense. “We went away for pre-season and our goalkeeping coach, Mikko, was telling us all about the ice swimming he does,” recalls Daly. “He was desperate to go down for a dip.” Lake Ruostejarvi envelops the Eerikkila Sport and Outdoo...

Marc McNulty will lap up every moment when Dundee United go to Hampden for the Scottish Cup semi - having missed out with Hibs

© D C Thomson & Co Ltd As coronavirus restrictions ease, parking charges in Dundee will return to normal from May 10, the city council has reminded the public. Barriers will come down late on Sunday May 9, and from Monday May 10 charges will resume at Greenmarket, Gellatly Street, Bell Street and Olympia multi-storey car parks. Signage will be displayed at key surface level car parks in Dundee and notices on parking meters telling people that charges were suspended will be removed. ‘The righ...