Perthshire backing for night-time effort to keep kids safe

mums have invented a child-friendly sofa after dreaming up the idea during lockdown. Glasgow mums Rhona Madigan and Corrine Spencer were both pregnant during the pandemic and like all expectant mums, were busy preparing for their respective new arrivals.

cancer. Tributes have poured in for mum-of-two Jill Steedman from Dundee following her death in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

turnip as the must-have lantern-making foodstuff.

Steve Clarke has had a number of injury and covid issues giving him a selection nightmare throughout the current international break. Stephen O'Donnell and Nathan Patterson were called into the initial squad, with the latter starting the match against Moldova.

driving licence was found in a charity shop in Ukraine - a year after its disappearance. Shaun McCourt lost his provisional license after a night out with his pals in Glasgow during the summer last year.

handed food at a Glasgow soup kitchen. The shocking image shows the woman and her toddler daughter being handed a package at the regular stall on the city's Argyle Street ran by the Homeless Project Scotland charity.

Lanarkshire man has slammed Scottish Water as he fears their discoloured tap water has made his 91-year-old mother-in-law ill.Stephen Whyteside, 40, has been plagued with strange-looking water for the past five weeks, with Scottish Water claiming it was safe to drink.However, when he tried to pour a bath this morning, the liquid coming out the taps looked even worse than before.In a picture shared to the Record, the water was shown to be murky brown, and was foaming.The problem is

vaccinated despite the UK’s expert advisory body not backing jabs for healthy teens aged between 12 and 15. Professor Jason Leitch has said teenagers could still be vaccinated in the future as the chief medical officers of the four UK nations will now be asked for their views.

The Cambridges are making the most of the kids being on summer break before they go back to school.

Highland Perthshire cycling event announced for October. Cycling Scotland’s Pedal Highland Perthshire is free to enter and is among the first Pedal for Scotland events to be held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Motherwell on Sunday evening where numerous police vehicles and an ambulance were seen parked outside. Locals said there had been an assault in the back garden of a flat block on the street but this has yet to be confirmed.Police officers remain on the scene this evening and part of the garden has been taped off.

Shirley-Anne Somerville made the announcement today and insisted the decision was driven by "fairness for learners". It means pupils in S4, S5 and S6 can look forward to returning to assembly halls in April and May next year to sit National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher papers.They will be externally marked and kids won't find out their grades until August.

iOS - Android Garry King at Go Kids told Lanarkshire Live: “We usually run some things over the summer holidays but normally have to charge for them. "But thanks to Arnold Clark down in Motherwell who provided us with funding from their community grant we were able to half the price of it.“We then got in touch with Youthlink Scotland and they gave us a bit more funding which meant we were then able to offer it to people who couldn’t afford it, for free.

Scotland to save 20,000 VHS tapes from the dump.VideOdyssey owner Andy Johnson is travelling up from Liverpool to Dundee to collect the mammoth donation of tapes.The movie buff followed his dream to open a video rental store and it has proven so popular that he has had to expand the store.People across the country have donated their tapes to him, including George McInnes in Dundee.George's massive 20,000 haul of VHS tapes has been collected over decades from car boot sales, and he is happy to

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happensA landmark moment for Renfrewshire school children, thousands of students were asked to quarantine for 10 days in the 2020/21 school year - many on multiple occasions.Figures revealed by the Express earlier this year showed that Renfrewshire pupils were particularly badly hit by the pandemic.The local authority area was one of only three in Scotland which had at least 50 per cent of its schools have one or more pupil test positive for the virus.In

environmental officers urged dog walkers to take care when walking their pups around a Scots loch last week after blue-green algae was sighted. People and pets were urged not to come into contact with the water at Loch Earn, Perthshire, amid concerns over the toxins from it.

Perth -based MSP is taking part in a classic car rally to raise money for a charity close to his heart.

Highland Perthshire arts centre will be reopening its doors to the public again after it received vital funding. Birnam Arts’ return comes after it was one of 53 projects in total sharing in over £1.2 million of National Lottery funding in the latest round of Creative Scotland’s Open Fund awards.

Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterPitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) received £485,112 through round two of Creative Scotland’s £12 million Performing Arts Venue Relief fund.These funds are directed to ensure the theatre’s solvency and support through the economic fallout caused by the pandemic.Between September and December, PFT will deliver seven key projects which will support the theatre’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Action Plan, to

“The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how people travel across all of Scotland.