Poppy Watson
Features Writer at The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)
Features writer @thecourieruk covering Tayside and Fife. Stories to [email protected]
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3 days ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Poppy Watson
When St John’s Methodist Church in Arbroath turned 250 in 2022, it chose to celebrate not just with ceremony, but with renovation. The 1772 building underwent a £700,000 refurbishment over two years to bring it into the 21st Century. The formerly dark, outdated and impractical edifice is now a bright and modern community hub, with a new cafe and exhibition space.
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4 days ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Poppy Watson
I’ve never felt so scared or confused in my life. I didn’t know who I was, where I was, or what was happening. Sentiments I think I made clear in my frenzied stream of questions to the group of well-meaning strangers who surrounded me. Apparently, I did a lot of “wailing” as well. At least according to my mum, who could hear me over the phone. She got a call from a passer-by at 6.36pm on Sunday.
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4 days ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Poppy Watson
Most of us had a Covid hobby and, for Dundee mum Christina Hutton, it was joining a burlesque group. The carer joined Marvelesque – the city’s largest group of burlesque performers – shortly after restrictions lifted in 2021. “I walked in, and I genuinely have never looked back,” she says.
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4 days ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Poppy Watson
Derek McCammon’s budget for his homeware shop in Dundee “started with a zero”, he jokes. He opened The Living Room, which sells everything from carpets and cushions to plants and candles, on Broughty Ferry’s Brook Street in May 2024. “We had absolutely no money once we parted with deposits for the lease and paid for the first month’s lease,” Derek recalls.
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3 weeks ago |
original106.co.uk | Poppy Watson
“12 offers came in for the house, and we won by £50,” Calum Melhuish tells me. “So I think it was destined for us, if you like.”He and his wife Carol, both 52, got the keys to their “forever home” on Dougall Street in Tayport on June 18 2021. ‘It was in a really terrible state’But there was work to be done before they could move in with their then-teenage daughters, Eloise and Erin, and dog Benji. “It was in a really terrible state,” Calum says. “There was this leak – every room was very badly damp.
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