Phone line support and food for ethnic minorities

happens when the golf balls start flying again. We’ve also had a group of youths spray paint offensive words on the buggies but it’s nothing some soap and water won’t take out.”

One employee at the course said: “People are actually going to the point of vandalism just to get access to the golf courses.

“The spars on the gate had kicked off so people could walk through.

“Also, we had golf buggies vandalised at the back of the pro shop.

“It’s starting to become a joke.”

Despite the vandalism, Mr Montgomery said he was looking forward to reopening the two courses next week if the first phase of lifting lockdown goes to schedule.

He said: “We’ll probably open team sheets next week.

“It will be in a environment .

“It will be two-balls (two players at a time per outing) and we’re very lucky to have the two courses.

“The bad thing is that May is our busiest month and we’ve missed that but it could have been a lot worse.

“Being able to open now means we’ll get the rest of the summer.”

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Multi-lingual phone lines and food packages have been provided to support people from ethnic minorities throughout Perth and Kinross.

The Perthshire Welfare Society has set up three new dedicated phone lines to assist speakers of a range of languages. Support in Punjabi, Urdu, Polish, Russian, Slovakian, Czech and Bulgarian, as well as in English, is now available.

Safdar Ali and Azizi Rehman of the society, said the group had been overwhelmed with messages from people seeking help since the lockdown came into force.

The phone lines will provide support to people who are isolated, unsure how to home school their children, or unable to fully understand the news due to language barriers.

The Perth Polish Saturday School has also worked with Perth and Kinross Council to provide food deliveries.