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Updated: May 24, 2021, 12:35 pm © Danny Lawson/PA Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up People in the Mearns are being urged to log sightings of grey and red squirrels to help monitor their numbers. Grey squirrels are highly invasive and pose a threat to red squirrels through competition for resources. Though the grey squirrel population used to be mainly contained within the city limits, greater numbers have been seen in the Mearns area recently. This means that the delicate population of red squirrels the...

Updated: May 24, 2021, 10:24 am © Supplied A Fife woman has entered her “inspirational” three-legged dog into an SSPCA top dog competition. Cupar resident Cheryl King, 45, rescued Buddy from an SSPCA shelter in Dumbarton in November 2019, less than a month after his front right leg was amputated. Buddy, who is now four years old, had come off worse in an altercation with other dogs he had been living with. Despite the best efforts of veterinary staff it was decided his leg had to be removed. Cheryl King with dog Buddy, husband Joe, son Darragh and daughter Clodagh. “When we got Buddy w...

© SNS Group “We believe we are a Premiership club but believing isn’t enough, we have to go and do it.” Dundee are under no illusions how big a task remains in front of them as they head to Kilmarnock with a place in the Premiership at stake. After two seasons in the Championship, manager James McPake says his side are ready to make the step back up to the top-flight. With a 2-1 advantage heading into the second leg after a fine showing at Dens Park, the temptation might be to sit on their lead at Rugby Park. However, McPake has urged his players to get the scoreline out of their minds...

© Steve Brown / DCT Media Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A trio of radio DJs from Fife are putting their best foot forward in a bizarre charity challenge to prove that walking on broken glass is less painful than stepping on Lego. Kingdom FM breakfast show hosts, Vanessa Motion and Dave Connor, came up with the plan after discussing a report on their show which claimed stepping on a piece of the famous building block hurt more than walking on shards of glass. The discussion lit up the station’s telephon...

Covid Scotland: NHS details Fife schools where pupils and staff are self-isolating Updated: May 24, 2021, 6:17 pm © Steve Brown / DCT Media Nine Fife schools have been affected by Covid-19 in the past week with more pupils and staff being forced to self isolate. All of the affected schools have more than five absentees and are spread across the region. Those in question are: King’s Road Primary School, Rosyth; Kirkcaldy North Primary School; Mountfleurie Primary School, Leven; Valley Primary School, – Kirkcaldy. There have also been recorded cases of the so-called Indian variant in Kirkc...