Real ale festival

THE Royal Tay Yacht Club will host the Alba Real Ale festival later this month.

The three-day event will take place from August 23-25.

More than 40 different ales, ciders and lagers produced by microbreweries across Scotland will be showcased.

HMS Unicorn is hosting a gin tour event tomorrow at 4pm.

Visitors will be given a guided tour of the ship while being served drinks provided by Dundee Gin Co.

Tickets must be booked in advance.

VOCAL harmony trio 3JF will perform at the next Cappuccino Concert in the Wighton Centre.

The concert will take place on Saturday August 24 at 11am. A RESTAURANT boss has narrowly avoided a prison sentence for trying to stab his former employee and throwing a hot liquid at him.

Former Antalia owner Aydin Dag, 39, was ordered to perform unpaid work after previously being found guilty of the attack on Mohammed Aziz at the Whitehall Crescent restaurant on December 28 last year when it was trading as Scots Hoose.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard the incident is Dag’s second conviction for an assault with a weapon and he has now had his right to operate a licensed premises revoked by Dundee City Council as a result.

Sheriff James MacDonald found Dag guilty of throwing a cup of hot liquid at Mr Aziz which struck him on the body as well as brandishing a knife at him and trying to strike him on the head with it, to his injury.

Dag, of Roundhill Road, St Andrews, was additionally convicted of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting,