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"Ugly" To Let signs are being removed from Perth city centre in a bid to make it look more attractive for visitors to Perth Museum.

A Perth and Kinross councillor this week upset the council's leader by describing Perth as "dying on its feet".

Perth and Kinross Council ’s new chief executive takes up his new role on Monday, November 1.

Perth and Kinross Council has said the region has to take as many desperate Afghan refugees it can in response to the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn nation. Up to 20,000 Afghans could seek asylum in the UK and Perth and Kinross Council’s four political groups have all expressed a willingness to help.

Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Perth and Kinross Council bosses have agreed to pay a company based in England more than £14,000 to help in its search for a new chief executive.The local authority’s most recent chief executive Karen Reid left her post in January this year having announced her departure earlier the previous year.Executive director of housing and environment Barbara Renton has been acting as interim chief executive since Ms Reid left to become chief executive of NHS Education for Scotland.Council bosses invited applications for the vacant chief executive role earlier this year but announced in April they had failed to appoint a replacement.Now they have decided to

Perth and Kinross councillor has slammed the council administration for not doing more to protect council tenants from flooding. The region is still counting the costs of the August 11/12 flooding - the worst in Perth and Kinross since 1993.

Perth couple flooded out of their home three times have been left furious after a high-ranking council officer said it is residents’ own responsibility to protect their home. At a Perth and Kinross Council housing communities committee meeting last week, executive director of housing and environment Barbara Renton told councillors the authority “cannot do everything”.

Perth and Kinross Council has completed 3000 inspections of headstones in the region as part of a project to make cemeteries safer.

Perth and Kinross has almost returned to pre-COVID levels, it has emerged.