£40,000 for firm

A FLEDGLING Fife engineering firm is moving ahead after securing £40,000 from Business Loans Scotland (BLS).

Glenrothes-based Creo Engineering said the seed funding has helped the four founding entrepreneurs get the business into gear.

Creo director Iain Bickett said the firm’s team had a predominantly oil and gas background and would initially focus on mechanical engineering services, including repair and inspection work.

In the medium to longer term, the firm is aiming to expand into the renewables sector and design and manufacture a range of specialist pumps.

THE toddler at the centre of an attempted murder charge two years ago has received compensation for his injuries.

The four-year-old, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, has been awarded a five-figure sum by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA).

Ryan Devaney was cleared in September 2017 of trying to murder a 10-month-old boy.

Prosecutors accused Devaney of repeatedly attacking the child on various occasions and at various addresses throughout 2015 in the Dundee area.

The jury heard medical evidence which said the child suffered fractured bones.

But jurors at the High Court in Edinburgh returned a verdict of not proven to the charge.

Now, however, the CICA has upheld a claim for compensation on behalf of the child from his mother, based on police and medical evidence.

The organisation stated: “We are