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Fife man covered body of mauled dog with t-shirt to stop children seeing it Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A Dunfermline man has told how he covered the body of a tiny dog with a t-shirt to prevent schoolchildren from witnessing the bloodbath after it was mauled to death by a bigger dog. John Carstairs tried unsuccessfully to help save the papillon from the jaws of the rogue Staffordshire bull terrier in Harris Place, Dunfermline. Despite having a disability, he rushed to the aid of dog owner Joy Kennedy a...

Escaped Staffie caused ‘carnage’ by killing small dog on morning walk in Fife © Supplied by DCT Media 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 horrified dog owner watched as an out-of-control Staffie mauled her dog to death as she took it for an early morning walk. Joy Kennedy desperately kicked at pensioner Robert Dalton’s “powerfully-built” dog in a bid to make it release her pet papillon, Piper. However Dunfermline Sheriff Court h...

Thursday court round-up — TK Maxx spending spree and an off-centre nose By Crime and Courts Team April 22 2021, 7.30pm © DCT Media Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up All the court you may have missed from our Crime and Courts Team on Thursday… Piper the papillon He pled guilty to having a dangerously out of control dog in Dunfermline’s Harris Place on January 29 2019. The dog’s destruction could be ordered when 72-year-old Dalton returns to court for sentencing at a later date. TK Maxx spending...

Conservative state lawmakers clash with public colleges, again. Jon Krause for The Chronicle Welcome to the rodeo. It's the classic duel between state lawmakers and public colleges. You may have seen the show before. This time, conservative lawmakers in some states are clashing with institutions over how to teach social-justice issues and privilege. In the backdrop of this face-off, Republicans and Democrats remain divided on how they perceive higher education. Student protests aren't drawing the same attention that they did four years ago, maybe because the coronavirus pandemic has sent mo...

The construction industry watchdog is trying to ban the display of the Eureka flag, which has symbolised Australian unions for 142 years. Building giant Lendlease has challenged the Australian Building and Construction Commission's ban on the Eureka flag and posters supporting controversial union leader John Setka on commonwealth-funded buildings. Lendlease argued in the Federal Court that union insignia should only be banned if it implied union membership is anything but voluntary.  The Eureka flag was created in the 1850s by gold miners and used at the Eureka Stockade. Since 1878 it has b...