Banners flying in run-up to the Solheim Cup

 The countdown until the Solheim Cup takes place at Gleneagles in September has well and truly begun. In the run up to the event Perth & Kinross Council is erecting lamppost banners to welcome this major international golfing tournament to the area. A total of 84 banners are being erected in Auchterarder, Gleneagles and Perth…

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Perth’s Halloween mountain bike event is sold out

Scotland’s mountain bike Enduro World Series qualifier later this month has sold out. Muckmedden Events’ Fair City Enduro, Scotland’s only Enduro World Series qualifier of 2018, being staged in Perth on Saturday 27 October, has no entries left. Entries for the 2018 Fair City Enduro (FCE) mountain bike race, Scotland’s only Enduro World Series (EWS)…

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New exhibition will highlight Joyce W Cairns’ work

An exhibition of an acclaimed Scots artist’s work is to open this weekend. The Kilmorack Gallery in Inverness-shire is to show the work of the acclaimed Joyce W Cairns, a painter and printmaker based in Aberdeen. Joyce is renowned for her magnificent, large-scale figurative compositions exploring human nature and collective memory. In her latest work,…

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Council donates obsolete Trust funds to cancer charity

A Scottish council has given almost half a million pounds to a cancer charity. Perth and Kinross Council is donating nearly £450,000 to Macmillan Cancer Support from a trust fund administered by the council where the purpose can no longer be fulfilled in the modern day. The local authority has been reorganising a number of…

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