Perthfm News 23/11/10

Dental Treatment Centre Opens to Public

NHS Tayside's Integrated Dental Treatment and Training Centre at Broxden Business Park in Perth will see it's first patients today as the Community Dental Service moved to the new site from its premises at Drumhar Health Centre. All clinical services, other than emergency weekend clinics, were transferred to the new centre today. The Emergency Dental Service will run at Drumhar Health Centre on the weekend of 27/28 November before transferring to Broxden and patients requiring emergency care out of hours should continue to contact NHS24 on 08454 24 24 24 as normal.
Those who are not registered with an NHS dentist can arrange for NHS dental care at Broxden by calling 01738 450550.

Copy-Cat website warning

Perth and Kinross Councils Trading Standards is warning residents to be on the look-out for "copy-cat" websites when shopping online this Christmas. In December 2009 over 1,200 web sites were closed down by experts at Scotland Yards e-crime unit because they were trading fraudulently, most of these web sites were run from Asia but with a British domain name. When consumers purchased goods from these web sites they either did not receive any goods or the goods they did receive were counterfeit. At the time online experts warned that these web sites could be back up and running within hours. Community Safety Convener, Councillor Willie Robertson, said: "Many of these were 'copy-cat' web sites - copies of high street stores. These sites have a domain name very similar to legitimate web sites with perhaps a slight spelling mistake, but are scam web sites. These web sites seem to be even more prolific this year therefore we want to urge people to be on their guard when shopping online."

Grouse in residence at Broxden

The weekend saw Perth's latest land mark arrive. The 50 foot tall grouse is positioned on a plinth and looks as if it is taking flight from the trees on the Broxden round about. The statue was has been gifted to Perth by the Edrington Group and was commissioned as part of the Perth 800 celebrations. Gerry O'Donnell, director of The Famous Grouse at the Edrington Group said, "We are very proud of our Perth roots, and we hope people agree that this creates a truly spectacular gateway to Perthshire and the Highlands of Scotland."