Councillors dispute panel's conclusion Perth and Kinross Council acted "appropriately" over Abernyte Primary School decision

The Royal Mint has revealed a new rainbow-coloured 50p coin to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK Pride movement and said this will be the first time the LGBTQ+ community has been recognised on an official coin.

Manchester United fans have been left surprised by Giovanni Van Bronckhorst’s decision not to bring on Amad in Rangers’ Europa League final penalty shoot-out defeat to Frankfurt.

A Scots toddler is suffering from a rare genetic condition that causes her to pull out her own hair and eat it.

Labour council groups will have the “flexibility” to strike deals with other parties - despite a coalition ban trumpeted during the election campaign.

New Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has revealed he plans to use his acting success to build a school in Rwanda.

A Scots theatre has been forced to cancel a Saturday night showing as Celtic fans gather in Glasgow to celebrate the club's Premiership title success.

Stanley Mills has reopened to the public after being closed for over two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The jury has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a former SNP MP accused of embezzling more than £25,000 from two pro-independence groups.

Householders are being warned of a new energy scam in which cold-callers are pretending to offer rebates from councils.

West Lothian’s SNP group leader Janet Campbell has called for a “progressive alliance” of cross-party councillors to lead a new council.

Bosses at Dundee Rep have revealed their pride in the selection of the new Doctor Who.

The SNP has come out as the biggest party at the Scottish council elections.

Scottish Labour is set to become the main challenger to Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP in future elections after Conservative support plunged to its worst Scottish showing a decade.

Aldi has unveiled plans to build a brand new £5.3 million store in Kinross-shire, creating 35 jobs.

A doctor quit his place on the board of NHS Tayside last week blaming in part a breakdown in relations with its chair over a recent breast cancer treatment controversy.

celebrity cancel culture, which he analogized to a modern-day form of “McCarthyism.” The 75-year-old Laurence Olivier award winner dropped the bombshell during a Thursday appearance on Piers Morgan’s show “Uncensored” on TalkTV.“It is a kind of modern-day McCarthyism really,” Cox told the host of the so-called witch hunt, in which celebs are excommunicated from Hollywood for certain actions and opinions. “It is a kind of raid on people’s sensibilities in order to reduce them and make them… I don’t know, there is so much hypocrisy in the whole thing.”The thespian continued, “I am not religious but there is a thing in the bible where it says, ‘Let he or she without sin cast the first stone’ and there seems to be a lot of casting of stones. And it is like a virus.”Cox was in good company while discussing the negativity of cancel culture with Post columnist Piers Morgan, who recently vowed to wipe out the damning trend.“My mission statement for this show is simple: I’m canceling cancel culture,” Morgan told “Piers Morgan Uncensored” viewers in April.

Police have been scrambled to an ongoing incident near to a Scots school.

The head of Perthshire Chamber of Commerce has written to Perth and Kinross candidates ahead of this week’s council elections asking them to oppose the introduction of new taxes or levies on local businesses if elected.

Book fines at libraries across Perth and Kinross have been scrapped to help residents amid the current cost of living crisis.

Dumfries and Galloway Council has pulled out of a hearing into a controversial Glenkens windfarm development, just weeks before it is due to take place.