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Nora McElhone

Feature writer with The Courier

Author Ajay Close pictured outside wearing scarf and green jacket.

Award-winning author Ajay Close on Perth, prizes and feeling Scottish

December 21 2024

Image shows: Travel writer Helen Moat enjoying a cup of coffee in a cafe in Broughty Ferry. Helen is sitting at a table in the window of Bowmans smiling and holding a cup in her hand. She has short white hair and glasses and is wearing a pinky coloured fleece.

What does travel writer and new girl in town Helen Moat love about Broughty Ferry

December 14 2024

Image shows: Kym and James Shields with Bru Dog, a model of a Scottie Dog with Iron Bru logos and a fabric traffic cone hat. The couple are standing near the Old Course in St Andrews with the town in the background.

Health & Wellbeing

Aussie terrier lovers fly to Fife to collect Scottie ‘Bru Dog’ – but leave with much more than an iconic sculpture

December 6 2024

Former Leuchars navigator plots new course after Craigtoun move

November 18 2024

Image shows: Courier feature writer Nora McElhone meeting one of the Highland Cows at Kinkell, St Andrews. She is leaning over an electric fence with her hand outstretched towards blond cow a long fringe and horns.

What did I think of Highland Cow experience at Kinkell Byre near St Andrews?

November 15 2024

Image shows: a woman Stephanie Scott in a bright floral swimsuit swimming in a loch in the autumn. She is wearing a floral swimming hat on her head and black gloves. She is splashing the water with both hands.

How does Perth designer of ‘bold and brilliant’ swim caps spend her weekends?

November 8 2024

Image shows: a group of walkers enjoying the beautiful autumn colours at Cambo Estate in Fife.

I joined Cambo’s wellbeing walk and discovered a new side to the Fife estate

November 2 2024

Image shows the Welcome to New Gilston signpost outside the Fife village. The village has been renamed New Ghoulston for Halloween and the signpost has been changed which Ghoulston written over Gilston and a witch riding on top of the sign. A scary character wearing a skeleton mask and black suit and hat and standing in a scary pose.

Fife village New Gilston gets a ghoulish Halloween makeover

October 25 2024

Image shows: Guy and Jamie McKenzie of Blown Away on West Sands beach, St Andrews. Both men, who are twins, have blond curly hair and are wearing blue hoodies and are setting up their kites and foilboards for some wing foiling in the sea.

Fife flyers: Wingfoiling brothers Guy and Jamie McKenzie hit the beach in St Andrews

October 25 2024

Image shows: Menopause awareness campaigner Rachel Weiss who is wearing a purple Menopause Cafe support ribbon. Rachel is standing smiling at the camera and has grey curly hair and wears glasses. She is pictured on a sunny September day with trees in the background.

Perth’s Rachel Weiss on how she broke the age-old taboo around the menopause

October 11 2024

A woman dressed as the fantasy character The Crow, holding a crow.

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The best spooky spots for celebrating Halloween in Angus and Dundee

September 20 2024

Image shows: Three men standing by the cockpit of a glider. The glass roof of the glider is open and the runway and misty hills are visible in the backgroups. Pictured are: From left to right, Adrian Docherty, Tom Docherty and Charlie Docherty.

Dundee gliding grandad Tom Docherty is still flying high at 90

September 14 2024

Getting stuck into a chocolate fountain at Cairnie Fruit Farm near Cupar. Image: Cairnie Fruit Farm.

5 fab kids party venues in and around Dundee, Perth and Fife

September 10 2024

Image shows: Young people enjoying a paddleboard session at West Sands in St Andrews on a sunny summer day. There is a group of paddleboarders enjoying the watersports.

11 spots to try a new watersport in Dundee, Angus, Perthshire and Fife

September 5 2024

Food bank manager Genna Millar in the warehouse with one of her packages.

Dundee Bairn’s manager Genna Millar on why city charity means so much to her

August 5 2024

Image shows: A happy family getting ready to play mini golf at Clayton Adventure Golf. There is a family on holiday standing around one of the tees at the mini golf course. A boy holding a golf club at the front of the picture is wearing a yellow t-shirt and white shorts is smiling broadly at the camera.

Fife

6 of the best Fife mini golf courses to try with the family

July 26 2024

The exterior of Black Watch Castle Museum in Perth.

6 kid-friendly castles around Angus, Dundee, Fife and Perthshire

July 20 2024

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Image shows: three members of the Largo Yarnbombing Lassies, standing by a post box with one of their creations, 'Finn the pirate'.

Has yarnbombing hit your village? Meet the Largo ladies crocheting postbox toppers

July 19 2024

Image shows: Elliot Comerford who has a summer job at Craigtoun Park in St Andrews. Elliot is sitting in the driver's seat of the red tractor called Puffing Billy. He is wearing a high vis vest and black jumper.

What was your favourite holiday job? Berries in Blairgowrie, Arbroath land train or manning the boats at Craigtoun Park?

July 12 2024

Image shows the Paranormal Investigation team from Haunted Scotland. The six team members are pictured in the grand dining hall at Balgonie Castle. Lisa Sproat, Tracey Whyte, John Whyte and Louise Walker are standing behind Lead Researchers Greg Stewart and Ryan O'Neill in the dark hall.

We join ghost hunters to discover if Fife’s Balgonie Castle will leave us ‘haunted for life’

July 5 2024

Image shows: author Val McDermid who has written Queen Macbeth. Val is leaning on a window ledge and looking at the camera. She is wearing a colouful top and blue cardigan. She has short white hair and is wearing dark-rimmed glasses.

Val McDermid on new novel Queen Macbeth, Fife life and that football controversy

April 27 2024

Image shows Gill Thomson of The Yard charity. Gill is standing, leaning against a tree. She is wearing a black and white spotted top with dark bottoms and a lanyard around her neck. Gill is smiling and has fair hair cut in a bod and dark-framed glasses.

Gill Thomson is passionate about helping every child thrive at The Yard in Dundee and Fife

April 27 2024

Image shows Amy Deans of Front Lounge Dundee with her sons Mason and Parker. Amy is sitting with her arms around both boys. All three are happy and smiling and Mason is wearing glasses. Amy is wearing a red top and they are in front of a red background.

Young mum on how Front Lounge Dundee changed her life

March 10 2024

Image shows artist Cat Coulter in her Cellardyke studio. Cat is sitting at her desk working on a new crab created from found objects.

Cellardyke artist Cat Coulter’s cast-off creations fill East Neuk ‘phone box gallery’

March 3 2024

Image shows the team at Knockhill with Damon Hill in the centre of the picture cutting the ribbon for the newly refurbished commentary tower.

Knockhill Racing Circuit at 50: How a sheep farm became a motorsport mecca

February 4 2024

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