The people of Alyth who endured a difficult year due to the flooding gathered together in a show of community resilience.
It is now six months on from the devastating incident when the Alyth Burn burst its banks and swamped the town.
Businessman Sandy Sarwar, whose Pricekracker shop in Alyth was flooded, hit on a way of bringing the community together,
“I was delivering my Couriers one morning when I heard on the radio that Christmas can be the loneliest time of the year,” said Mr Sarwar from Dundee.
“That was when I had the idea come into my mind and I put it to my staff that instead of having a night out we should organise something for the pensioners.
“My staff and friends thought it was a brilliant idea. We wanted to do something for the community, Christmas is a time when people should be getting together.”
This week around 100 older members of the community gathered together in the town’s Airlie Street Hall for a Christmas party with music and food.
“We hope to carry this on and do it every year,” said Mr Sarwar. “I would like to thank all the helpers and sponsors for making the event a success.”
It also helped the businessman draw a line under his own first year trading in Alyth.
He had only taken over the store a few weeks before the floods hit in June and it required a £90,000 refit before reopening.