Formula One
Mexico City Grand Prix Qualifying Clashes With Halloween Guising; Perth Dads Choose Wrongly
Saturday 9pm qualifying means one parent has to stand on the doorstep handing out sweets while listening to tyre strategy on a phone.
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Football · Preview
Saints Head to Kilmarnock on Halloween; Fans Debate Whether Artificial Pitch Counts as a Costume
St Johnstone travel to Rugby Park on Saturday, 3pm, after Wednesday's 2-2 with Motherwell. Away fans told to dress as 'a team that keeps a clean sheet'.
Holyrood · Energy
£100 Energy Payment Rollout: Perth Already Knows Exactly Which Radiator It’s Going On
Scottish ministers and councils work out how to get the money to households. Perth homes form an orderly queue, with flasks.
Westminster · Debt
MPs Urge £197m Debt Write-Off for British Council; Perth Man Asks If His £43 Gas Bill Qualifies
Commons committee suggests wiping the slate clean. Letters from across Perthshire are already on their way to the Public Accounts Committee.
Westminster · Money
Gordon Brown Designs International Bank That ‘Doesn’t Count as Borrowing’; Perth Applies Same Logic to Its Credit Cards
Former PM helps plan defence bank kept off the books. A Scone man now describes his overdraft as 'a strategic resilience facility'.
Budget Fallout
Chancellor Promises ‘No Welfare Cuts Before the Election’; Perth Reads the Last Four Words Twice
John Healey's budget aftershocks continue. Kinross pensioner gets out a highlighter. Accountants say the important bit is always the bit after 'before'.
Holyrood · Westminster
PM Arrives in Glasgow With ‘An Offer’ for Scotland; Perth Hopes It Is a Bypass, Settles for a Biscuit
Andy Burnham meets John Swinney and Rhun ap Iorwerth with proposals for the devolved governments. Perth draws up its own wishlist, mostly about the A9 and parking.
Halloween · Perth
Perth Faces Last-Minute Neep Rush as Families Remember the Old Ways Took Four Hours
With guising tomorrow, traditionalists vow to carve a proper turnip lantern. Hospitals report no extra wrist injuries yet, but the day is young.
Contracts · Kettins
Council Awards £200 Sports Transport Contract; Premier League Clubs Ask How It Was Done
Perth and Kinross Council's latest tender: a modest bus run taking Kettins pupils to sport in Meigle and Blairgowrie. Football agents across Europe are reported to be 'studying the numbers'.
Nature · Kinross
Loch Leven Play Area Learns It Is ‘Uninspiring’ From the Newspapers; Swings Said to Be ‘Quietly Devastated’
RSPB plans to replace the play park with an inclusive nature-themed trail. The roundabout says it has given decades of service and deserved to hear it face to face.