Tributes have been paid to a popular head teacher who died after getting trapped under ice on a Perthshire lake. We speak to those who knew Alan McKenzie.
The promise of 300 jobs if a new biomass plant is built in Dundee has failed to win universal support all the latest in Friday’s Courier.
A set of paintings are set to go under the hammer at a Tayside auctioneer’s. What will they raise? Find out why nobody, including the auctioneer, has any clue.
Meanwhile, Gordon Brown believes evidence including shattered crockery will at last show who is responsible for radiation at Dalgety Bay. We break the story in Friday’s smashing Courier.
A fitting tribute is set to be paid to a popular St Andrews University student who tragically died while on holiday. We hear from the dedicated friends raising cash in his memory.
We also have the amazing story of a cat who has finally come back down to earth after spending three days stuck up a tree in Perthshire.
In sport, St Johnstone head to the Highlands for Friday night football, and one of their team had some surprise news ahead of the clash with Inverness Caley Thistle.
Dundee manager John Brown backs a Killie old boy to shine at Rugby Park for the Dark Blues, while United boss Jackie McNamara speaks about Craig Brown’s contribution to Scottish football ahead of the veteran’s last match before retirement at Tannadice.
The Scottish Boys golf continues at Monifieth and so too does the local interest. We’ve also got news of Rory McIlroy’s bid to find form ahead of the US Masters.
Eve Muirhead speaks about the dangers of illness to a professional sports person in her weekly column, while rugby correspondent Steve Scott previews the weekend action as Dundee HSFP face up to their D Day
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