WE WILL reveal how one local authority lost 30 years-worth of sick days in just three months last summer leading to concerns over the impact on local services, and a call for management to be “stricter” with their staff.
Meanwhile, there has been a new twist in the “Tay Tax” travel row could it really be that it is now cheaper to travel from Dundee to Glasgow and back again by taxi rather than train? And, if so, what will be done about it?
Also find out why a drug addict was so desperate to be arrested that he turned up at a police station carrying a five-and-a-half-inch blade.
Staying with the courts, we have details of a biker banned from the road after he sped along a road next to a Dundee housing estate at 122mph more than three times the speed limit.
Just a week after claiming punters could be charged to call 999, a senior member of the Tayside police federation has suggested ALL calls to the emergency services could be exempt from charges, including those to non-emergency lines.
With Scotland in the midst of a binge drinking epidemic, we look at the devastating impact on the nation’s females, with dire warnings over the impact of over-indulgence on the ageing process. We reveal details of a new initiative to tackle the problem in a very graphic way.
We also examine the intriguing case of a Perthshire man whose quick thinking saved a deer from a devastating case of death by crisp bag.
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