Student presidents

FIFE College Students’ Association (FCSA) has welcomed new student presidents Carol Hunter and Jade Burnett.

Carol, from Kirkcaldy, was elected president for education and representation, while Jade, from Dunfermline, is president for welfare and equality.

The pair will work alongside FCSA manager Craig Walker, student engagement co-ordinator Gloria Laurini, and new FCSA recruits Nikki Moorhouse and Kirsten Mullen.

A FIVE-a-side football tournament i n aid of Syrian orphans, organised by the World Care Foundation, will be held at Soccerworld in Dundee on September 20. ARBROATH churchgoers are a splash hit with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) after raising £300 through a sponsored walk.

The donation was part of fundraising by the town’s St Thomas’s Church and was presented to the charity by Father Joseph James.

Parishioners took part in an eight-mile trek from St Anne’s Church in Carnoustie to St Thomas’s.

They were supported on the walk by the coastal parishes of Arbroath, Carnoustie and Monifieth, as well as St Andrew’s Cathedral in Dundee.

Participants collected a total of £1,700 which DUNDEE is set to make a third attempt to create an improvement district funded by local businesses, the Tele can reveal.

Improvement districts (IDs) – formerly known as business improvement districts – involve local firms pooling money to improve a local area over and above the work being done by local authorities.

This can be anything from staging public events to installing additional street furniture such as benches, planters or bins to attract more people to the area.

There are dozens of IDs across Scotland but none so far in Dundee, despite previous attempts to create one in 2015 and 2017.

Jennifer Caswell, team leader in city promotion at Dundee City Council, said a steering group has been created to explore the potential of a city centre district again.

If successful, it is predicted it could bring as much as £400,000 of extra money into the local economy each year.

While Ms Caswell stressed that it is “early days” for the proposal she added that potential themes are