News in brief

• An East Neuk food market has gone online for lockdown and beyond. The Bowhouse monthly markets at St Monans normally offer goods from artisan producers made using local ingredients. Through Bowhouse Link people can order essentials like milk and eggs as well as organic meat, flour and vegetables, locally brewed beer and wine, freshly ground coffee and flowers.

• The 10th anniversary Dundee Dance Event (DDE) will go ahead online this weekend. DJ sets will be live streamed on Youtube, Facebook, Mixcloud and Twitch for people to enjoy from the safety of their homes. The performances can be accessed from the DDE website. Donations for this year’s two chosen charities — Clic Sargent and Macmillan Cancer Support — can still be made on DDE’S Virgin Money Giving page.

• Charity and school workers will benefit from free meals provided by the Grosvenor Casino in Dundee. It has been dishing out lunches to those working in the NHS, social care, emergency services and armed forces, but bosses have now extended the initiative to include charities, schools and vulnerable people.

• Youth support charity Includem has donated £500 to the foodbank run by Dundeebased Taught By Muhammad.

• Fife Council has restarted street cleaning, grass-cutting and gardening services for vulnerable people. Staffing shortages linked to Covid-19 have been a major problem across the organisation. However, staff have been drafted in, some from other roles. The resumption includes the clearance of fly-tipping.

• An outreach service to help people in distress has returned to the streets of Dundee. The Safe Zone bus usually caters for weekend revellers in the city centre but, with pubs shut, it has been repurposed to help the homeless and vulnerable.

It will operate every Saturday to provide basic health and welfare support, hot food and drinks and help to find safe accommodation.

• A fund has been launched in Tayside to support research into the effect coronavirus is having on pregnant women and newborn babies. Cash for the research has been approved by the Tayside Health Fund.