Surgery changes meetings

ANGUS residents are being asked to attend engagement events as part of an orthopaedic services redesign.

NHS Tayside is proposing to make changes to where surgeons, doctors and nurses deliver orthopaedic surgery in the region, including planned operations and unplanned trauma operations.

A large event will be held on September 28, from 10am-12.30pm, at Forfar Community Campus, Kirriemuir Road.

Smaller community pop-up information stands are also planned. One is scheduled for Whitehills Community Health Centre, Forfar, on Friday, the other will be held at Arbroath, I nf i r mary out- pati ent department on September 2. Both sessions will run from 10am-noon.

DR Daniel Potter will give a talk on Egyptian collections held by Scottish museums on Thursday at Montrose Museum and Art Gallery. Tickets are available from angusalive.scot/tickets or by calling 01674 07447. A FURNITURE firm that helps people w ith disabilities into work is teetering on the brink of collapse after a takeover plan fell through.

Dovetail Enterprises, based at the city’s Dunsinane Industrial Estate, is understood to need immediate financial support in order to stay afloat.

The Tele understands councillors could agree to provide the firm with an emergency six-figure sum at a closed doors meeting tonight.

The firm is run in partnership with Dundee City, Angus and Perth and Kinross councils and produces furniture for businesses.

It is known for its efforts in supported employment – with more than 30 people with disabilities currently benefiting from long-term work. However, it is understood the firm has run into cash difficulties following the collapse of a proposed deal by the Shaw Trust, which carries out similar work and was seen as an ideal suitor.

Council reports suggest the furniture factory needs “significant