Still reeling from news that Balado will have seen the back of T in the Park for the last time after July’s event, lovers of the festival can read of a new blow in Wednesday’s Courier.
With just a few weeks to go until Arctic Monkeys, Biffy Clyro and Paul Weller pitch up in Kinross-shire, a cash row has rocked the organisers.
It seems there’s a good old-fashioned stand-off between those who live to rock and those who live to stop and search.
We bring you the full song and dance.
We also bring tidings from a bathtub at the top of Ben Nevis, carried there in a heroic charity effort by strong men from Perth.
And speaking of carrying things around in a good cause, we have the latest from the Commonwealth baton relay, which is now deep in Courier Country.
If you’ve graduated from St Andrews University, you can see your names in lights (actually, small black print unless you get our our digital editionof course, in which case it will be backlit).
And we cover the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn with a round-up of events across the country and a fulsome explanation of how the day was won by Robert the Bruce.
And on that truly contemporaneous note, we urge you to buy a copy of Wednesday’s Courier.
Ta-ra.