Hopes fade for Christmas events in Perth as council leader admits it would be a challenge to host them

Deliveries Scotland.To download the Deliveries Sorted app, visit www.ds.todayDeliveries Sorted is an app that enables you to do your food shop and order a takeaway from home, and enjoy super fast delivery.Hundreds of shops and takeaways across Scotland are available to shop from on the app.

baby food containing shards of metal on the shelves of a Tesco store in Lockerbie, a court heard today. Nigel Wright, 45, is accused of launching a blackmail campaign against the supermarket giant.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Dozens of Higher grades slashed because Renfrewshire pupils live in an area of high deprivation will be appealed.The grades are among thousands across Scotland being questioned after the SQA confirmed students’ past work and predicted grades were slashed purely because of where they live.The exam body - which this year had to find a new way of grading students performance in absence of the usual exams - controversially

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Police are appealing for information following a wilful fireraising in Larkhall on Monday, August 3.Around 8.25pm, the Deli Cabin in Strutherhill Industrial Estate was deliberately set on fire.The Scottish Fire & Rescue Service attended and the fire was extinguished.

Glasgow cafe has gone viral with its ‘Cooncil Box’ that has come ‘directly from the local scheme’. The culinary geniuses at Tophski’s in the south side of the city launched the unique dish yesterday - and it has already captured the imagination of punters on social media.

coronavirus and the need for another lockdown, Tony Blair has warned. He has urged Boris Johnson to appoint a Minister with sole responsibility for testing and said that without a vaccine or an effective treatment, mass testing is the only way to control the spread of Covid-19.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.A Cardross ruin that is considered one of the finest examples of modernist architecture in Scotland has been gifted to a new owner.The derelict St Peter’s Seminary in the village has been handed over to the Kilmahew Education Trust by the Catholic Church –with ambitious plans outlined to restore it to its former glory, with education at its core.Originally opened as a training college for priests in 1966, the building

Universal Credit is a payment intended to help people out of work or on a low income with living costs. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been unprecedented levels of claims for benefits.

Residents in Greater Manchester have been told to 'cancel' any plans to visit Scotland.The message from Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Friday (July 31), came just 12 hours after it was announced more than four million people will face tougher lockdown restrictions, including in parts of east Lancashire and West Yorkshire.Scottish people are advised to avoid travel to areas in northern England facing the new tougher restrictions after a spike in coronavirus cases.Travel between

excess deaths in Europe between the end of February to the middle of June, official analysis shows. The Office for National Statistics showed England had the longest period where deaths were above average during the coronavirus pandemic, and so overall had the highest levels of excess deaths in Europe.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.THE leader of North Lanarkshire Council’s Conservative group has criticised payments of more than £12.2 million made by the authority to departing staff in recent years.Councillor Meghan Gallacher says these figures highlight how council resources have been “stretched to the bone” by Scottish Government cuts to local authorities.The council has made 475 agreements in just the last three years, with the bill totalling

dogs were found living in “dirty and cluttered” conditions. Andrew William McPherson has admitted failing to properly care for seven-year-old German Shepherd Zara and 16-year-old Bobo at his home in Airdrie.The 39-year-old also failed to seek veterinary treatment for the dogs who were both found with their hip and rib bones jutting out.

Perth residents can sit in at the two McDonald’s stores in the city. The fast food giant announced on Wednesday that, after a successful pilot, its’s restaurants were now able to have customers in them.This will impact the McDonald’s at Broxden and on Dunkeld Road. Call for urgent action on road named one of the most dangerous in Scotland Residents previously rushed to the stores when the drive thru service opened in June.

Scottish Labour veteran Frank McAveety is to stand down as the party's leader on Glasgow City Council to allow a new generation to take charge. The former Holyrood minister will not stand for the role when the local party stages its forthcoming AGM, it was announced today.

Motherwell’s Sitel call centre while delivering food to staff.The site, in Maxim Park, which has now become the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak, is currently under investigation for lack of social distancing.A driver, who asked not to be named, told the Daily Record he observed no compliance with Government guidance at the site when delivering food multiple times a day.He said employees were seen hovering around reception, out smoking together in large groups and failed to comply with the

the region’s beauty spots. The group is formed of Perth and Kinross Council, Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, with help from local communities, and could see motorists fined or have their cars removed by police officers if they feel they are causing a dangerous obstruction to emergency services.

Perthshire MSP questions minister over college's recruitment drive amid job cuts plan Steven Sutherland (45), of Gorebridge, Midlothian, is the brother of Suzanne Sutherland, the little girl who helped underline the need for a Scottish hospice service and put it firmly on the national agenda back in 1993.Suzanne, who suffered from a rare terminal condition, captured the nation’s hearts and helped compel the Scottish public into raising £4 million in funding to ultimately build Rachel House.She

gadgets is hoping for a fare to Scotland to test out his new wheels.Mark Bates spared no expense when he installed an HD 17 inch TV, free wifi, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and even a virtual reality headset in his taxi.The 55-year-old, from Swindon, Wiltshire, wanted to have the slickest ride in town when he started his new business after a ‘strange dream’ inspired him.He said: "I'm a taxi driver who's up for driving anywhere, if someone said I need a ride to Scotland I'd say ‘let's rock and

V&A Dundee and the River Tay has opened for business on Dundee’s waterfront. Teaming up with the V&A, street food entrepreneurs Chris Heather and Melodie Paterson are now serving takeaway food and drink from a three-wheeled Piaggio van and converted horse box.