Articles...
Oct 10 2008
CASTLE Huntly will remain an open prison committed to the rehabilitation of offenders....
Oct 3 2008
MP Pete Wishart joined a band of youngsters on an emotional visit to the notorious Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz....
Sep 19 2008
FURIOUS SNP politicians yesterday angrily condemned the speculators who have “forced” Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) into a merger with the Lloyds TSB banking group....
Sep 9 2008
While Scotland is not experiencing the housing deflation we are seeing in the south of England, evidence is emerging that house prices in Perth are at best static....
Aug 15 2008
WELL, the weather may not have been kind, but that has not deterred the many fantastic outdoor events around Perthshire this summer....
Aug 5 2008
A CONSULTATION into plans to extend the Cairngorms National Park into Perth and Kinross was yesterday welcomed by Pete Wishart MP....
Aug 1 2008
WELL, what can you say about that by-election win in Glasgow last week? It sometimes seems like all the superlatives have been used up. Spectacular, stupendous, a political earthquake, etc, etc, and all these descriptions are right. After Glasgow East, things will never be the same again. You can almost feel Labour’s nullifying West Coast stranglehold and suffocating hegemony slipping away. It has happened before and it can happen again. In the 1950s the Conservatives became the only party to secure over 50% of the vote in Scotland, yet were totally wiped out in 1997. Labour’s ongoing denial about their precarious position in Scotland could see the same thing happen to them....
Jul 22 2008
CONTROVERSIAL proposals to re-draw the electoral boundaries of local parliamentary constituencies would “tear Perth apart,” according to one MSP....
Jul 22 2008
MORE than 10,000 local families will be hit by the UK government’s planned road tax hikes....
Jul 18 2008
LAST week, as Gordon Brown tucked into his eight course meal with G8 leaders in Japan, he told the rest of us not to be so wasteful with our leftovers!...
