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Updated: May 18, 2021, 10:28 am © Supplied by Angus Council Angus Council’s opposition SNP group will contest the 2022 local government elections with a new leader. Forfar councillor Lynne Devine has stepped down from the role with immediate effect following the group’s AGM. She told colleagues she wanted to step aside as she won’t be standing for re-election in May. Monifieth and Sidlaws councillor Beth Whiteside takes over as group leader following Monday’s development. Councillor Beth Whiteside. Montrose councillor Bill Duff and Brechin and Edzell member Kenny Braes are joint depu...

© Paul Reid 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 Angus Council’s leader has dodged criticism over the return of a shamed colleague to the authority’s administration in a moved branded a “desperate” attempt to cling to power. Arbroath West and Letham member Richard Moore is back in a ruling group which recently lost two councillors amidst claims of an “unhealthy culture” at the top of the authority. Mr Moore was banned from counci...

Lynne Devine will take up the role of Older People's Champion in Angus as national bodies campaign for a network across Scotland's councils.

Old Forfar textile factory transformed into street art canvas © Gareth Jennings/DCT Media Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Street artists have woven a new work into the growing gallery of public art brightening up Forfar buildings. The old façade of St James Works was the canvas for a series of murals based around the burgh’s textile heritage in the latest of a series of similar projects created with Angus Council’s town centre regeneration funding. Local man Aiden Edmeades led the project after eyeing...

Town councillors support plan All four Forfar local members backed a policy and resources committee plan to add £25k to the £37k already committed from the common good. The Forfar Town Centre Fund will provide the balance of £20k. Conservative Braden Davy said: “Forfar toilets have been an ongoing issue and problem, especially as we have been made to stay local. “This provision is welcome, and allows people to start using the loch much more easily, without the future of Lochside being decided.” He said previous efforts to provide toilets had been marred by vandalism, attempts to set ...