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Call for School’s Refurbishment
Monday 21.9.09
A MAJOR refurbishment of Harris Academy, likely to cost around £20 million, has been called for as a matter of urgency by the city council’s Labour opposition group.

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Event Renamed in Honour of Jockeys
Monday 21.9.09
THIS YEAR’S Apprentice Jockeys Championship is to be renamed in honour of Angus teenager Jan Wilson and Irish colleague Jamie Kyne following their tragic deaths in a house fire this month.

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Pedestrian badly Hurt in Van Collision
Monday 21.9.09
A 44-YEAR-OLD man was being treated in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, last night after suffering serious injuries in a lunchtime collision with a van.

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Together in Respect for Fallen Soldier
Monday 21.9.09
DUNDEE BOWED its collective head yesterday in a display of respect for the sacrifice of local soldier Kevin Elliott, killed in action in Afghanistan. Hundreds of people gathered to pay their last respects to the 24-year-old who died on the last day of August, during a rocket-propelled grenade attack by insurgents while on patrol in the Babaji District of Helmand Province—an attack that also cost the life of his Inverness colleague, Sergeant Stuart “Gus” Millar.

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Jail Term for Cleaver Attack Over Cigarettes
Monday 21.9.09
A PERTH man who attacked a friend with a meat cleaver following a drunken brawl over cigarettes was yesterday jailed for three years. Scott McLean’s heavily pregnant girlfriend sobbed as the sawmill worker was led away from the dock at Perth Sheriff Court to begin his sentence.

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Hay blaze damages barn
Thursday 10.9.09
FIREFIGHTERS WERE called to a blaze at a Perthshire farm yesterday.

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Rethink on fire and rescue services
Tuesday 8.9.09
FIRE AND rescue services in Tayside, Central Scotland and Fife are set to share equipment and specialist staff to accommodate government spending cuts.

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Grieving father’s thanks for support
Tuesday 8.9.09
THE FATHER of Jan Wilson, the Forfar jockey who died in a fire in Yorkshire at the weekend, has paid tribute to the local community for their care and understanding.

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Fears aired on hospitals’ fire safety training
Monday 7.9.09
NO EMERGENCY fire procedure was in place in half the hospital wards and other NHS Tayside areas checked by auditors.

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Heavy rain brings misery and chaos
Monday 7.9.09
A second day of heavy rain brought traffic chaos to roads around Dundee and Angus this morning.

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