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Much of Scotland is being battered with high winds as Storm Bert enters its third day. The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for wind with gusts of up to 60mph (96km/h) that have led ...
Around 5:10 a.m. on 2 January 2023, [14] reports were made to Police Scotland of a fire on the second floor [15] [3] of New County Hotel in Perth. [16] [17] Emergency services arrived at the hotel around 5:12 a.m., including 60 firefighters [18] (in nine fire engines) and 21 ambulances. [19]
The name "Perth" derives from a Pictish word for "wood" or "copse", related to the Welsh "perth", meaning "hedge" or "thicket". [10] During much of the later medieval period, it was known colloquially by its Scots-speaking inhabitants as "St John's Toun" or "Saint Johnstoun" because the church at the centre of the parish was dedicated to St John the Baptist. [11]
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Originally printed at the printing office in the Kings' Arms Close, off Perth's High Street, adjacent to the municipal buildings, like all Scottish and Universal/Media Scotland newspapers, the PA used to be printed locally, but in the mid-1990s the printing of all of their Scottish titles was centralised at a new custom-built plant at Blantyre ...
Stewart began his political career when he was elected to Perth and Kinross Council as a councillor for Perth City South. [2]Stewart stood in the 2015 general election as the Scottish Conservative candidate for Perth and North Perthshire, coming second to the Scottish National Party (SNP)'s Pete Wishart, who was returned with a near 10,000 majority.
[2] [3] The Perth and Kinross district created in 1975 covered the whole of pre-1975 Kinross-shire and the majority, but not all, of pre-1975 Perthshire. [ 4 ] The modern area and its council were created in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 , when the Tayside Regional Council was abolished and its functions passed to the ...