Perth, Scotland News

THE quality of air in Edinburgh is significantly better than most towns and cities in Scotland, a study has found.

ON TRACK: Michael Ignos at the revamped Mount FLorida station. Five railway stations in Scotland are to receive a multi-million pound cash injection to improve access for disabled people.

THESE days I have to be careful what I say about Fifers. I once argued in print that Scotland would be a better place without the ancient Kingdom that lies between the Forth and the Tay.

A SEARCH was launched yesterday to find Scotland's best football joke - and fans are already proving they are game for a laugh.

Last week, Eco Soundings posed the question of what wood the London Olympics velodrome track will be made from - the favoured Siberian larch being difficult to source sustainably.

ONE of Scotland's most successful restaurant empires is planning a major expansion into the east, The Scotsman has learned.

Conservationists have created what they believe is the world's first sanctuary for bumblebees in Perth and Kinross.

The Scottish National Party won its first poll victory when it took Motherwell in a wartime contest in 1945 but it lost at the General Election months later and was not to taste triumph for another 22 years.

Conservationists have created what they believe is the world's first sanctuary for bumblebees in Perth and Kinross.

July 19 1932 Singer and guitarist Buster Benton is born. 1946 Alan Gorrie of Average White Band is born in Perth, Scotland.

PITCARMICK HUT CIRCLES, Kirkmichael, Perthshire: Go back 3,000 years in history and feel the atmosphere of ancient times at Pitcarmick, in north-east Perth.

A MAN convicted of attempted murder has gone on the run after being let out of prison on day release, police said yesterday.

An international manhunt is underway after a convicted British paedophile fled to France.

Plans to close district courts in Perth, Falkirk and Stirling and move cases to the area's sheriff courts have been announced.

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People across Angus, Dundee and Perth and Kinross have been warned to be on the lookout for potentially hazardous blue-green algae in waterways.

SME Focus MARK WILLIAMSON Speeches by the Chancellor Alistair Darling and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King at the annual Mansion House get-together with City bigwigs on Wednesday made it doubly clear that ...

RAIL passengers are being denied the cheapest tickets because of bizarre hidden anomalies in the fare structure of some routes, The Scotsman can reveal.

Hanging in there ... Coldplay's Chris Martin with Will Champion, Jonny Buckland and Guy Berryman.

March marked the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade and Kenwood House staged a major exhibition telling a story rarely told.