Charity signs up to website

A TAYSIDE charity is asking people to use a fundraising website when they shop online to help generate some much-needed donations.

Home-Start Perth, which supports families with children under the age of five in the Perth and Kinross area, has signed up to easyfundraising.

People can shop online at more than 4,000 retailers, and the retailer will then make a donation to Home-Start Perth as a thank you.

Shoppers start off by going to easyfundraising. org.uk/causes/homestart perth and they will be redirected to the site where they want to shop.

Retailers include wellknown names such as eBay, John Lewis, Argos, booking.com, Amazon, M&S and Sainsbury’s.

Home-Start Perth has so far raised more than £30 from eight shoppers.

The Perth branch was the charity’s first in Scotland, having been formed in 1984.

RESIDENTS have hit out at a lack of police action after a woman was sexually assaulted in Kirk Street.

Many locals expressed disappointment that 20 days after a woman was raped and found wandering around wrapped only in a duvet, no arrests had been made.

And they said the incident was part of a much larger crime problem blighting the community.

One man, who has lived on Kirk Street for more than 10 years, said: “It’s disgusting. Something really should be done about it, you can’t just leave it like this.

“I feel as though the area is being neglected, I think that the police need to step up patrols.

“You’ll see them come about twice a day, drive down the street and leave. You never see them actually walking.

“It’s always been like that.”

The resident also claimed that the sexual assault was part of a wider issue in the area, saying: “As far as I understand, it was all