Bryan Copland

1 week ago | thecourier.co.uk | Bryan Copland

Fife Council has asked for more time to decide on plans for a new Lidl supermarket in Dunfermline. The budget retailer wants to build a shop on the site of the former King Malcolm Hotel on Laburnum Road. Details of the plans emerged in March with Lidl revealing a computer-generated image of what the new store could look like. Now Fife Council has written to Lidl to ask for an extension to the normal time period for deciding on the application.

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Alexander Lawrie |Bryan Copland

A “missing” man who was last seen leaving a train in Perthshire has been revealed as a sex offender on the run. Police issued an appeal last week to residents in and around Dunkeld and Birnam for help in tracing Coen Bust, 47. He was last seen leaving a train at the Highland Perthshire station on Thursday March 13. At the time, police said they were keen to trace Bust, from Edinburgh, “as soon as possible” – and simply said he had been “reported missing”.

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Bryan Copland

A van driver is fighting for his life in hospital after a crash on the A90 near Brechin. The crash involving a lorry happened on the southbound carriageway at around 2.45pm on Friday. The road was shut for nearly seven hours with traffic diverted through Brechin. The male driver of the van was taken to hospital, where medical staff describe his condition as critical. The driver of the HGV did not need treatment.

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Lucinda Cameron |Bryan Copland |Ben MacDonald

Patients suffered a lack of dignity and equipment was contaminated with bodily fluids due to “considerable pressures” at a Kirkcaldy hospital. Inspectors found a lack of shower facilities affected “patient choice, dignity and fundamentals of care” at Victoria Hospital. Officials also discovered equipment with blood and bodily fluids on it, along with dust and mould in some areas during the unannounced visit in December.

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Lucinda Cameron |Bryan Copland

Police in Kenya have released photos of three men they are hunting in connection with the death of a Dunfermline businessman whose body was found in a sack of pineapples. Campbell Scott, 58, was found dead in a forest last month days after going missing in the capital Nairobi, where he had been attending a conference. The death is being treated as murder and two people have been arrested so far.