city Perth: Last News

Happy faces were everywhere on Saturday 19 as the Perth Christmas Lights Switch On event went off with a bang!

Torrential rain has caused chaos on the east coast of Scotland on Friday, with houses, roads and vehicles flooded, and the Met Office warned there could be a danger to life in parts of Scotland.

The Cross Tay Link Road (CTLR) team has struck up a partnership with Perthshire Women’s Aid.

Major plans are being developed to expand improved full fibre gigabit broadband to nearly 10,000 residential and business premises across Perth.

Passengers across Perth and Kinross were once again left in the lurch on Monday after a staggering 143 scheduled bus departures were pulled by Stagecoach amid a deepening driver shortage crisis.

A man seen waving a claw hammer above his head during a disturbance on a Perth city street has been ordered to carry out community service.

Despite the easing of COVID rules Perth city centre is still reeling from months of closures and restrictions.

As COVID rules ease, Perth city centre is still reeling from months of closures and restrictions. In a series of special reports, the PA is looking at how the Fair City’s retail and hospitality sector is recovering from the impact of the pandemic and what the future holds for our high street...

As COVID restrictions ease Perth city centre is still reeling from months of closures and restrictions.

Perth has been named as one of Scotland’s first Champion Cities as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

For centuries it has dominated the city of Perth skyline.

An appeal to help the people of Ukraine has had an instantaneous and wholehearted response from Perthshire residents and the local community.

Police officers are appealing for information from the public after a 13-year-old girl was reported missing from her home in Perth.

Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership (P&K HSCP) has confirmed that a new ‘care and treatment centre’ model is being developed at Blairgowrie Community Hospital as part of a wider programme to deliver urgent care locally and across the country.

Perth’s new vaccination centre opened on Monday, January 3 as teams moved from Dewars Centre.

A new community vaccination centre is to open in Perth city centre.

Perth is having another stab at being named the UK’s City of Culture, but in the bid for 2025, the Fair City will not pitch alone, instead making a joint application as part of the Tay Cities Region (TCR). Disappointment hit Perth last time around in 2017, with the city giving way to Paisley as Scotland’s hope.

official unveiling and dedication of the Association of Perth Veterans’ war memorial will take place in Perth city centre on Saturday, June 26 - Armed Forces Day. The 11am ceremony will also see the raising of the Armed Forces Flag at the memorial which has been erected in St John Street, at the rear of historic St John’s Kirk, which houses the city’s war memorial to those lost in conflicts during two world wars.

Perth city centre supermarket without paying for a quantity of alcohol. And in a separate incident, 31-year-old Gary Cummings stole three bottles of champagne from another local store.

Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter.A career criminal who suffered a serious leg injury while he broke into a Perth city centre restaurant was told he was fortunate he did not “bleed to death”.Forty-two-year-old William Gillilan, who was out on licence from a prison sentence at the time, was locked up for 13 months at Perth Sheriff Court.He will also have to serve a further 183 days behind bars, equating to the unexpired portion of his earlier jail term.The court was told that the accused, of Skinnergate, had taken 20 Valium tablets that evening and “couldn’t remember anything” of what he had done.Police were contacted by the

Perth at the weekend - over 50 miles from their home. The pair were enclosed in a city garden after being found wandering.In an attempt to find the owner of the livestock, Missing Pets Perth and Kinross posted a picture of the ewe and lamb, discovered on the Crieff Road at the junction leading into Tulloch.After the ear tags were checked, it was discovered that the pair were from a farm in the Gorebridge area, near Edinburgh.