Arbroath, Scotland News

A READER with a three-year-old child has told our reporters of a serious danger to youngsters in the Bruce Road/Brechin Road area of Arbroath.

THE SNP ruling administration at Holyrood suffered an embarrassing defeat on Thursday over its plans to allow councils to no longer advertise public notices in local newspapers.

Sylvester and Tweety Pie are lovable cartoon characters from the Warner Brothers stable.

PLANS to introduce a new bye-law prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in central Forfar will be unveiled at a meeting of Angus Licensing Board on Wednesday .

LOCAL people have been using their neighbourhood library to brush up on their computer skills.

A FORMER Arbroath pub landlady would like to hear from anyone who has been receiving telephone calls from Caledonia Media Group.

Colleges are turning away thousands of youngsters because of a "dramatic increase" in applications during the recession.

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THE SCOTTISH Government has recently announced its intention to repeal the right to buy legislation by which tenants of public sector rental property could purchase their dwellings after a period of time, at a substantial discount.

ANGUS MP Mike Weir has described the decision by the UK Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge MP, to introduce a slimmed down competition to find new sites to put forward for World Heritage Status as "mixed news" for campaigners on behalf of Arbroath Abbey.

SHOPPERS in Arbroath's Abbeygate Centre were being urged to 'love their lungs' on Wednesday at the launch of a Tayside wide campaign to raise awareness of a respiratory condition.

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FIGURES from NHS Tayside show that last week's wintry weather resulted in almost 100 people visiting Arbroath Infirmary with limb injuries with some having fallen on icy paths and roads, writes Jennifer Newton.

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FOOD packs for the homeless, for young families facing hard times and those struggling to cope with the recession.

Downfalls of the House of Windsor as comparing the Declaration of Arbroath and some part of the Act of Union Egregious wrongs have continually been presented on the people of Scotland whenever a non-Scottish King has been in England.

ALFIE and Ava were the top names for new babies in Arbroath and Carnoustie in 2009, writes Jennifer Newton.

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THE cold weather has taken yet another victim from the football fixtures today. Dunfermline's match at home to Raith Rovers has been called off after overnight frost left the East End Park pitch frozen.

A teenager who poured a can of petrol over his girlfriend and set her on fire has been locked up for life for her murder.