FOLLOWING on from the day of action tackling speeding and parking issues around the Blairgowrie community campus last month, parents and carers of pupils at Newhill and St Stephen’s primary schools have been asked not to park in the campus.Read
THE momentum is gathering towards the Chelsea Flower Show 2012, and for two local florists in particular, the Florist of the Year and Florist of the Future competitions.Read
BLAIRGOWRIE youngsters are part of a group being given an insight into a career in care as part of a new initiative by The Prince’s Trust and care provider Balhousie Care Group.Read
PUPILS in Newhill’s primary one to three classes recently invited parents, grandparents and friends to an exhibition at the school to show them the hard work they have all been doing.Read
AS THE tourism industry across Scotland gears up for one of its busiest periods of the year, Blairgowrie Advertiser reporter Clare Damodaran spent a day in the life of a visitor services advisor at the VisitScotland Information Centre in Blairgowrie.Read
COUPAR Angus will soon have new gateway signs, replacing the existing ones at the four main entrances to the town on the roads from Forfar, Dundee, Perth and Blairgowrie.Read
BLAIRGOWRIE and East Perthshire Tourism Association’s (BEPTA) “Jampionships” has been awarded £25,000 over two years to build on the success of last year’s pilot project.Read
BERRYPICKERS’ ceilidhs in Blairgowrie began 12 years ago when Jean Napier and a few friends at St Mary’s-South Church decided to introduce students who were working on local farms to a little bit of Scottish culture, namely the ceilidh.Read
WITH a family history of heart problems and her young family’s future to consider, 35-year-old Laura Barnett, from Perth, knew that being over eight stone too heavy was potentially life-threatening.Read
THE eaves of Rattray Primary School are the latest to be fitted with new nestboxes erected to halt the decline in swift numbers in Perth and Kinross.Read