Boarders wanted

GUIDE Dogs charity chiefs hope the success of a Forfar fun day will boost volunteer boarder numbers for the organisation.

The event at the organisation’s Scottish training centre at Orchardbank gave the public the chance to see pups in training and participate in blindfolded walks.

There can be up to 90 dogs in training at any one time, but with fewer than 50 volunteer boarders, dogs which remain at the centre outside training hours are not gaining valuable experience of family life. Boarders look after the trainee guide dogs in the evenings and at weekends. IMAGES have emerged of the unsavoury scenes during a women’s football match on Sunday.

The game between Dundee City WFC and Dryburgh Ladies descended into chaos at the Charlotte Street pitches near the Kingsway.

Pictures show a Dryburgh Ladies player on the deck with a swarm of Dundee City WFC players around her after the full-time whistle.

A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed Police Scotland took a player to hospital following City’s 3-2 win at the weekend. V IOL ENT crimes in Dundee rose by 22% last year – more than twice the national average, newly released figures show.

The figure, which excludes sexual crimes, is a dramatic jump compared to the previous year, when non-sexual violent crimes rose by 5% in Dundee.

The Scottish Government statistics reveal that crimes in the same category increased by 10% across the whole of the country last year.

The figures show that 333 nonsexual violent crimes were recorded in Dundee during the last financial year, from April 2018 to March 2019.

There were also 521 sexual crimes, 3,918 crimes of dishonesty, 1,594 crimes of fire raising and vandalism and a further 2,478 “other” crimes.

Sexual crimes in Dundee have dropped by 14%, crimes of dishonesty have fallen by 7%, and fire raising and vandalism crimes have dropped by 12%.

But other offences in Dundee have increased by 21% – another