Kathryn Anderson

Plans are afoot for Police Scotland to have two dedicated officers patrolling Perth city centre Monday to Friday.

A Perthshire area commander says local officers are “regularly” assaulted in the line of duty and last Monday “quite a number” were assaulted at an incident in Perth city centre.

Perth and Kinross Council paid out for just nine of the 291 vehicle damage claims it received over the past two years

Council bosses are on a mission to clean up the city centre and make it a more attractive place to visit

The 18-hectare site will accommodate ten caravans with a communal building with showers, toilets and an office

The plans based at Perth Food and Drink Park have been praised as “historic” and bring a 20-year wait for services to an end - despite a recommendation for refusal from council planners.

A Perth City Centre councillor has called on Perth and Kinross Council to help bar staff who will lose their jobs when a popular city centre pub…

The work follow two tragic incidents where children were crushed to death by unstable headstone

The council's licensing committee were asked to revoke the site licence due to increasing concerns about the lack of management and maintenance at the site.

The move has been brought forward following complaints about buskers sometimes being too loud, repetitive and untuneful, as well as rows between rival buskers.