It’s Saturday. Stand by your beds for a stonking weekend Courier.
Plans to introduce average speed cameras along the entire length of the A9 have caused huge controversy. We have details of plans for a “rolling roadblock” by fed up lorry drivers. Likely to cause chaos on the arterial route, those behind the protest warn the camera plans are akin to “putting a plaster on a bleeding wound”. Not very effective, you see.
Meanwhile, there was drama in the Firth of Tay on Friday after a boat capsized. We speak to the father and son rescued from the treacherous waters and the people who pulled them to safety. Hurrah.
A dental nurse has received £35,000 after she was unfairly dismissed from her job following a stillbirth. She tells us of the “hell” she has suffered as a result of the stressful case.
Golf. It’s popular. Lots of people have been flocking to St Andrews for the women’s Open championships. The Courier has also been attendance and we report from the Fife town as an exciting weekend beckons. It’s a par-ticularly good story.
What is more likely man setting foot on Mars or Scotland gaining independence? It’s a close run thing according to Brits. We have full details of a most interesting poll…
It has been a long, hard summer but at long last the footie is back. Dundee United were in Friday night action, while the rest of Courier Country’s clubs enter the fray at various points over the weekend. Back of the net.
For more on all of these informative, entertaining, illuminating, interesting, exciting and erudite tales be most certain to pick-up Saturday’s Courier or, if the mood should take you, why not try our digital edition? Why not? Why not indeed. There’s nothing to lose (or at absolute worst so little as to be statistically irrelevant) and so much to gain.