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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 terrified bus passenger was attacked and racially abused by a drunken thug who tried to sit on his lap. Keith Downie, 26, would go on to spit blood at police officers after being removed from the Citylink bus at Seagate Bus Station. He shouted at passenger Jinson George: “I’m going to punch you back to Pakistan. I’m going to kill you.” The lout is now facing a prison sentence after pleading guilt...

Cllr Murray  said: “The global Carbon Footprint is 51 billion tonnes per year. “What Cllr Croy is essentially saying is that there is no point in Wokingham doing anything on climate change as we represent 1/1000th of 1 per cent of the global carbon footprint. Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet in Climate Change. “I wish there was something that we could do that would cut our carbon footprint in half, but there isn’t. The simple fact that Wokingham Labour fail to realise is that we have to lots of little things that add up and add up and add up to big reductions overall.

Society Dean Mike Ferrie (left) and Sheriff Gregor Murray Angus sheriff Gregor Murray has received the thanks and praise of staff and solicitors at the end of a seven-year tenure in the county. At a Forfar Sheriff Court presentation, he was presented with two framed portraits, one of which will join those of his illustrious predecessors in the faculty library at the Market Street courthouse. Sheriff Murray is to take up a new position at Dundee Sheriff Court. New incumbent, Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown, sheriff clerk Kay Hendry and solicitors Billy Rennie and Mike Ferrie, representing the Ang...

Tenant farmer told to leave for council’s solar farm plans >More in © High Barn Farm A tenant farmer who must leave his home and land to make way for a proposed solar energy farm says he is having sleepless nights over his livelihood and his family’s future. Livestock farmer Andrew Lake, of High Barn Farm in Barkham, near Wokingham, Berkshire, was given a year’s notice in September 2020 to leave the land owned by Wokingham Borough Council after his farm business tenancy ended. “It came as a bit of a shock,” Mr Lake told Far...

© 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 appointments with social workers. Williamson, of High Street, Montrose, is awaiting sentence for pushin...