Michael Alexander - Journalist -The Courier

26/09/2025

Margaret Lafferty wants urgent change after her husband Gordon died from terminal cancer just weeks after being told he was "imagining" his symptoms.

26/09/2025

Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, known as Ming, served as the MP for North East Fife for nearly 30 years.

26/09/2025

widow hits out at NHS Tayside after ‘repeated misdiagnosis’ leads to husband’s ‘cruel death’.
The Perth businessman was told illness was ‘in his head’ - then 15 weeks later he died from terminal cancer.
Read moving interview with widow here at The Courier UK:

Margaret Lafferty wants urgent change after her husband Gordon died from terminal cancer just weeks after being told he was "imagining" his symptoms.

25/09/2025

The former Caledon Shipyard electrician, who's died at 91, was a central figure in the community for decades where he owned Phoenix store and helped the 'needy'.

25/09/2025

Ron Coleman, who wants to change perception of dementia, takes centre stage at Stirling's Dementia Arts Festival where a double-bill of films about his life is premiering.

25/09/2025

man who uses to help with his vascular dementia brings his inspiring story to Macrobert Centre in .
Read my interview with Dundee United Football Club supporter Ron Coleman here The Courier UK as he tries to change perceptions of dementia:

Ron Coleman, who wants to change perception of dementia, takes centre stage at Stirling's Dementia Arts Festival where a double-bill of films about his life is premiering.

25/09/2025

Whitfield store owner Frank Whaley remembered by family for his ‘genuine kindness’.
Read the tribute here The Courier UK following his recent death:

The former Caledon Shipyard electrician, who's died at 91, was a central figure in the community for decades where he owned Phoenix store and helped the 'needy'.

24/09/2025

’s Joe FitzPatrick MSP pays tribute to his ‘amazing’ dad who was immortalised in cartoon after 33 years at D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd after legendary mishap with cow.
Thoughts with the family today as Joe Snr is laid to rest having passed aged 89.
Read The Courier UK:

Joe Fitzpatrick, who’s died aged 89, worked with Dundee publisher DC Thomson for 33 years. He famously ran over a dead cow on the A90 - and never lived it down!

23/09/2025

Wind farm threat to fishermen is ‘hidden scandal of our time’, says former energy minister Fergus Ewing MSP.
He’s told The Courier UK that the concerns of skippers are being ‘trampled on’.
It comes as NE Fife MSP Willie Rennie pledges to raises concerns about the impact of an export cable at Holyrood.

Fife fishermen say offshore wind farms threaten their livelihoods and call for compensation as MSPs urge fairer policies.

20/09/2025

Isobel Nicolson: Daughter’s tribute to teacher who carried ‘ in her soul’ - read more here The Courier UK

The Dundee-born former primary teacher and founder of Perth Hillwalking Club with a 'grasshopper mind', has died aged 95.