Groupis backin business
Muthill and Tullibardine Community Council is to come out of abeyance thanks to conscientious members of the community stepping up to fill enough seats to make it viable.
Despite an extension to the deadline, MTCC failed to reform following last year’s community council elections in November due to there not being enough names in the hat to at least form a quorum.
But now Sandy Black, Stephen Coulter, Donald Hood and David Woods have come forward to represent the Muthill sub-area, and Steven Gow and Thomas Mills will represent Tullibardine.
Donald Hood, who has represented his community for over 18 years said: “It’s great we have more people on board.
“It’s important to have a community council and I am looking forward to getting back to business.”
Inspirational Perth cancer fighter Lily Douglas has told how she managed to get TV’s Mr Nasty dancing.
The 12-year-old dancer, who is being treated for a rare form of cancer called Ewing’s sarcoma, was invited to the filming of The Greatest Dancer and Britain’s Got Talent judging, after talent show judge Alesha Dixon and her Scottish manager Malcolm Blair saw her story in our sister paper The Sunday Mail.
She was delighted to meet “Aunty Alesha and Uncle Malcolm”, as Lily describes them, and also hit it off with Simon Cowell.
He made a beeline for Lily when he arrived at his office and, to everyone’s amazement, even agreed to dance for her – the first time any of his staff had ever seen him dance. Lily said: “I asked Simon to be in TikTok with me.
“He said he would stand for me but didn’t want to dance. “I didn’t think he would even get up and said the whole point is you have to dance. “David Walliams said he had to, so the two of them did it for me. Then Simon pointed at me and gave me a score of 10.
“The judge of the biggest-ever talent show gave me 10 out of 10. I love him.
“I didn’t expect to see Simon. Before he arrived, I was with David, Amanda Holden and Alesha, who were all so lovely. “I thought he’d be busy but he walked into the room, came straight to me and spent about half an hour talking to me, showing me what was going on. “He told me lots of secret stuff about who is going through and what is happening on Britain’s Got Talent but I’m sworn to secrecy. I’m not allowed to tell anyone. He even invited me back for the live final in May. It was a really special moment.”
Malcolm said: “Simon never ever dances - but he did for Lily.
“It was hilarious and all the production team couldn’t quite believe that anyone got Simon to dance on camera.”
Lily got a tour of the Sony Music offices where Simon is based and even got a peek at his legendary private bathroom.
She said: “I saw Simon’s office and his awards - the Bafta was very cool.