Contract awarded to provide advanced connectivity

Boston Networks has been awarded a contract to design, supply and install a new Wireless Wide Area Network to provide advanced connectivity to towns and rural schools across the Angus Council area. The upgrade will include the provision of wireless connectivity to a number of schools to deliver the higher bandwidth required to facilitate the delivery of the Curriculum for Excellence programme.

Thief ordered to help police find stolen goods

A heartless thief was today ordered to help police fish a bag full of stolen medals from a river before he is handed a lengthy jail sentence for a string of “contemptible” break-ins. Ronald McKay broke into Dundee and Angus College and stole a haul of irreplaceable medallions that had been put on display at the institution after being loaned by an 80-year-old woman awarded them for her efforts in twinning Dundee with the city of Orleans in France.

MSP hits out at Angus and Mearns Clydesdale Bank closures

A local politician believes Clydesdale Bank has “abandoned” its rural customers with the news of the closure of three of its branches in the Angus and Mearns area. Mairi Evans, Angus North and Mearns MSP, has hit out at the bank’s announcement that its Brechin, Forfar and Stonehaven branches are to close as three of 40 offices that are being axed across Scotland.

Trees felled by vandals in Brechin

An appeal has been launched by Angus Council and Police Scotland after several trees where felled in Brechin Public Park. A statement from Angus Council said: “Three trees have been felled at Brechin Public Park in an inexplicable act of vandalism.