Health chief says Christmas may have played part in COVID spike in Perth and Kinross

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Perth and Kinross will be enforced after the Easter holidays.The ‘School Exclusion Zones’ will be rolled out at Balhousie, Guildtown, Inch View and Kinloch Rannoch primary schools - affecting Muirton Place, School Road, Craigie Place and Allt Mor Crescent respectively.Perth and Kinross Council is bringing forward the plan as part of the Spaces for People project and aims to support physical distancing by restricting unnecessary traffic around school gates.Men fined after New Year Day attack on

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Nick Cave has revealed that helping a friend find the drive to create art is what boosted his own songwriting for ‘Carnage’.‘Carnage’, last month’s surprise release made in collaboration with his Bad Seeds bandmate Warren Ellis, was written over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when Cave said he had “nothing in my head but a whole lot of dread and uncertainty”.

Perth and Kinross as the council looks to balance its budget.Increasing the cost of school meals, parking charges and residential care are just some of the proposals being put to councillors.Perth and Kinross Council will set its 2021/22 budget on Wednesday, March 10 as it looks to plug a £17 million gap.A spokesperson for PKC said the COVID-19 pandemic had put an “unprecedented financial uncertainty” on the council’s future expenditure and income.Last month Perth and Kinross councillors agreed

Perth and Kinross Council will look to plug a £17 million gap when it meets to agree its revenue budget next week.Councillors will be asked to approve an updated net revenue budget for 2021/22 of £387 million when they meet on Wednesday, March 10.Elected members agreed in September 2020 to set a budget for one-year covering 2021/22 rather than its usual three, due to the uncertainty created by the coronavirus.Last month councillors voted to freeze council tax charges for 2021/22.The £17m comes

Perth and Kinross dropped to their lowest level since November last week.Data from the National Records of Scotland shows there were six deaths linked to the coronavirus across the region in the week beginning February 22.That is the lowest figure since the week beginning November 16 last year.Two-hundred-and-forty-seven people have now lost their lives to the pathogen in the region.The infection rate across Perth and Kinross also continues to fall, albeit at a greatly reduced rate.On February

Perth and Kinross Council’s headquarters are expected to be completed by June.The council’s iconic Perth building at 2 High Street suffered “extensive flooding” during spectacular thunderstorms last year.The conditions in August saw the worst Perth and Kinross flooding since 1993.Over 200 properties in the region were flooded internally - with many more affected externally - including Perth Leisure Pool and PKC’s headquarters.Back in September, Conservative council leader Murray Lyle told the PA

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direct to your inboxThe Government's failure to vaccinate police against Covid-19 as a priority has been described as a 'damaging betrayal'. The view, from National Chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, John Apter, was supported by Greater Manchester Police Federation chairman Stuart Berry.

long Covid  for months. Dr Amy Small, 40, from  Lothian  is now working as a locum but 10 months after being diagnosed with  Covid  she admits she is still only 80 per cent back to fitness.

Perth and Kinross are currently dealing with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to NHS Tayside.That is down from the nine that were closed to admissions last week when a local health chief warned the new variant of the coronavirus was “tending to have a more sustained impact on care homes than previously.”The news comes as the Scottish Government prepares to publish guidelines on the resumption of care home visiting in March.Up to two friends and relatives will be able to visit a

Perth and Kinross Council says it is turning its attention towards repairing potholes in the region’s roads, now that the icy weather has dissipated.The local authority is also advising residents to only inform them of potholes where there is risk of “a serious accident”.The council has revealed that 1696 potholes have been identified since January 1 this year and that 329 have been repaired so far, which were mainly caused by the recent weather.However, PKC officers still have 2500km of roads

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Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Karen Gunn took a step back and glanced across Perth’s recently set-up vaccination centre.It was the night before the doors opened to the public and it signalled both an emotional and proud moment.The NHS staff member, who is clinic lead for the Dewars Centre operation, was ready to welcome thousands from across the region for their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.A venue commonly known for curling stones

direct to your inboxTrafford’s Director for Public Health has warned the borough is ‘absolutely not out of the woods’ yet regarding coronavirus. While the borough ’s rates are declining, they remain higher than health bosses want to see.

Perth and Kinross for 11 years, according to a Met Office meteorologist. Tom Morgan told the Perthshire Advertiser he reckons you would need to go back to 2010 for a time when the thermometers plunged so low.