Breaking · Transport
£7m Broxden Filter Lanes to Divert Traffic Away From Roundabout, Into Slightly Smaller Roundabout, Then Back Into Roundabout
Engineers confirm plan will free up Broxden 'for the exclusive use of people who are lost'.
Back Issue
Friday, 16 October 2026
Opinion
Now That I Have Superfast Broadband in Comrie, I Have Lost the Only Excuse I Ever Had
For twenty years 'the internet's down' got me out of everything. Those days are over.
Politics
Perth and Kinross Council Exceeds a Target, Staff Unsure What to Do Next
Affordable housing programme 'beats expectations', causing confusion, celebration and one person to lie down in a cupboard.
Education
Braco Primary School Rated ‘C (Poor)’, Immediately Appeals for a ‘C+ Because It Tries Hard’
Building tells inspectors it has 'a lot going on at home'.
Sport
St Johnstone Fans Treated for Vertigo After Club Climbs to Fifth in Premiership
Supporters 'not used to the altitude'; oxygen masks issued at McDiarmid Park ahead of Dundee United clash.
Local
Perth Christmas Fireworks Moved to North Inch and Cut to 3.5 Minutes; Residents Begin Training to Blink Less
Council confirms display will be 'brief but meaningful, like a Perth summer'.
Tourism
Pitlochry Off-Slip Closed Until Christmas; Tourists Report Reaching Inverness, Wick and ‘Possibly Norway’ Trying to Find It
Coach party bound for Pitlochry Festival Theatre finally arrives, six months late, in Thurso.
Local
Residents Cut Off by Six-Week Crieff Road Closure Develop Own Dialect, Currency and Mild Suspicion of Perth
Feus Road to Collinson View now 'basically a principality', say neighbours.
Local
Superfast Broadband Reaches Glenshee; Sheep Immediately Start a Podcast
7,600 rural homes now online, ending centuries of residents having to 'just go and talk to each other'.
Politics
£4.7m Central Heating Contract Re-Run After Council Accidentally Priced It in Tablet
Bids 'impossible to evaluate' after tender asked suppliers to quote in 'slabs, squares and wee bits'.