Rain fails to put stop to Highland dancing

while NHSTayside director of finance Ian McDonald presented him with gifts.

In his retirement, Mr Charles is planning a trip to Japan to visit his son. A MAN was yesterday fined £250 for pushing a child in a playground.

The incident took place after some boys were “dummy fighting” beside a Perth primary school and one of them was kicked by another boy.

Depute f iscal John Malpass told the court Richard Dargie knew the boy who was kicked.

The boy was in a “distressed state and told the accused who then returned to the site with him,” he said.

“The accused pushed the other boy and he crashed into a shed there.

“This boy then went home and told his parents and the police were called.”

Solicitor Cliff Culley said that his client “very much” regretted his actions.

“This was a one-off incident of which my client is embarrassed and ashamed,” he said.

Dargie (32), of Duke of Edinburgh Road, Pitlochry, admitted that on September 26 last year at a grass area adjacent to a primary school in Perth, he assaulted a boy by pushing him over, whereby he struck a shed and fell to the ground.

In sentencing Dargie, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told him: “In this day and age you can’t do this.” A LT H O U G H BAD weather forced the cancellation of this weekend’s Blairgowrie and Rattray Highland Games, it has been decided to stage the Highland dancing.

The competition will take place on Sunday at the Blairgowrie Community Campus in Elm Drive.

Primary, beginner and novice dancers will take to the floor from 11am, while intermediate and premium competitions will begin at 1pm. A charge of £3 will be made for nondancers.

Organisers took the “difficult” decision to cancel Sunday’s games due to concerns over the condition the town’s Bogles Field.

Incessant rain has left parts of the site under two inches of water and with further bad weather forecast, there appeared no likelihood of improvement.