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Perth and Kinross Council closed four roads around the hotel to prevent further harm to civilians, impacting traffic flow due to the hotel's central location. [19] [21] The three victims were named on 6 January by Police Scotland. [25] [26] The manager of New County Hotel filed an employment tribunal against Rashid Hussain following the fire. [27]
Perth and Kinross (Scots: Pairth an Kinross; Scottish Gaelic: Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy area.It is bordered by Highland and Aberdeenshire to the north, Angus, Dundee, and Fife to the east, Clackmannanshire to the south, and Stirling and Argyll and Bute to the west.
As of July 2023, 335 people had been killed on the Perth-to-Inverness stretch of the road since 1979 (an average of 7.6 deaths per year), 59 of which occurred between 2011 and 2022 (an average of 5.4 deaths per year). The "A9 Dual Action Group" was established to bring attention to the statistics.
In 2022, Leishman was elected as a Member of Perth and Kinross Council for Perth City North. [3] As a councillor, he served as a director of two council-funded sports bodies. [4] He resigned from the Council in August 2024. [5] At the 2024 general election, Leishman was elected as MP for the newly established Alloa and Grangemouth constituency. [6]
A district called Perth and Kinross was created in 1975. Perth and Kinross District Council was one of three lower-tier authorities within the Tayside region, along with Angus and Dundee. It was named after the two historical counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire, the county councils of which had acted together as the 'Perth and Kinross ...
The 2022 Perth and Kinross Council election was held on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election used the 12 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 , with 40 councillors elected.
He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross (the King's representative in the region) in 2019, having previously been Deputy Lieutenant since 2012. [1] Leckie is chief executive of the Crieff Hydro hotels group, has been Chairman of VisitScotland since 2024 [2] and was President of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) from 2021 to ...
Kinross (/ k ɪ n ˈ r ɒ s /, Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Rois) is a burgh in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, around 13 miles (21 kilometres) south of Perth and around 20 miles (32 kilometres) northwest of Edinburgh. It is the traditional county town of the historic county of Kinross-shire.