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Angus Council budget: Financial black hole deepens to £60 million ahead of crunch meeting

Angus residents will learn the area's council tax rise this week but planned cuts to services and rising charges have already been revealed. → Read More

IN PICTURES: Take your pick of the best shots from Kirrie Tattie Day

The humble potato won weekend hero status in Angus as folk flocked to Kirrie Tattie Day. Online tickets sold out for the Sustainable Kirriemuir event in → Read More

Family homes approved for cats hotel site on border of Angus and Dundee

The impact of Covid-19 led to the closure of the Cats Hotel at Balruddery in 2020. → Read More

Old Montrose bowling club sale delayed over common good legal questions

Angus Council previously got caught up in a landmark legal case around the demolition of Lochside leisure centre in Forfar which judges ruled was a common good asset. → Read More

Angus planners pitch in with approval for 14 new homes near Carnoustie Championship course

New homes near Carnoustie’s famous Championship links have been given the go-ahead by Angus planners. The 14-house development will be built on a former → Read More

Disabled Forfar woman’s shock over ‘crazy tenant’ message on contractor’s phone

A Forfar woman locked in a two-year repair battle with Angus Council says she was labelled ‘crazy’ by the contractor who came to carry out the long-awaited work. → Read More

GALLERY: Forfar young farmers take to the road for fundraising festive tractor run

Forfar young farmers took to the road with a spectacular Christmas tractor convoy to raise funds for Angus Toy Appeal. → Read More

Has a bold buyer finally taken plunge with Forfar’s old pool?

Angus Council may finally be about to wash its hands of Forfar’s old swimming pool. The Vennel baths were boarded up when the town’s £38 million community → Read More

Forfar parkrun organisers hot foot it to foodbank with support from latest event

Forfar Loch parkrun participants have shown their generosity with a collection for the local foodbank. They rolled up to the latest Saturday morning event → Read More

Former Montrose bank to become High Street Chinese restaurant

Angus planners have served up an approval for plans to turn an empty Montrose bank into a Chinese restaurant. The former RBS branch at 101 High Street → Read More

Far-travelled Arab Simon has taken Frank’s Law message to 30 countries around the globe in honour of Dundee United legend

Lifelong Dundee United fan Simon Pringle has worn his Frank's Law t-shirt in 30 countries around the world to promote the law named after former Tannadice legend Frank Kopel. → Read More

Carnoustie takeaway planning appeal rejected by councillors

A bid to overturn a planning refusal to convert an Angus mortgage office into a takeaway has failed. In May, Angus planners blocked the plan for the empty → Read More

Brechin Infirmary radiation risk dismissed as health chiefs await demolition decision

Environment agency chiefs say they have no concerns about radiological contamination of the Brechin Infirmary site NHS Tayside want to clear for housing. → Read More

Arbroath fundraisers vow to hold RNLI to 2014 promise of new £2.5m town lifeboat

RNLI fundraisers say they will fight any prospect of Arbroath losing the state-of-the-art £2.5 million lifeboat the Angus station was promised eight years ago. → Read More

EXCLUSIVE: Arbroath or Broughty Ferry could miss out on £2.5m state-of-the-art lifeboat in RNLI all-weather craft cut

All-weather capability could be slashed at two of Tayside's busiest RNLI stations in a lifesaving review. And it will see Arbroath or Broughty Ferry miss → Read More

Brechin Polar Express on track to carry 10,000 passengers in cracker of a Christmas for Caley Railway

The Polar Express is set to carry 10,000 excited passengers on a magical Angus journey this Christmas. And Caledonian Railway bosses say the return of the → Read More

Angus officials give assurance over council house smoke alarm contract following McGill collapse

Dundee firm McGill had been fitting smoke alarms for Angus Council before it plunged into administration last month. → Read More

136-house Muir Homes plan for Forfar’s Westfield put on hold

Controversial plans for 136 new houses on the edge of Forfar have been put on hold. Muir Homes is bidding for a green light from Angus councillors for → Read More

Carnoustie Links and Abertay Uni develop research partnership to drive golf forward

A global golf census is part of the work of new research hub developed between Carnoustie Links and Dundee's Abertay University to drive the game forward. → Read More

Angus taxpayers facing council cuts like never before over £28m budget black hole fears

Angus finance director Ian Lorimer says balancing the books in the next two years will see service reductions "on a scale not previously seen". → Read More