The Perthshire Advertiser, etc. from Perth, Tayside, Scotland • 4

NEWS PITLOCHR THEATRE'S TOP AWARD PITLOCHRY Festival Theatre has been honoured by the Arts Council for Great Britain in recognition of the theatre's success in achieving the objectives of its three-year artistic and financial plan. the concerted efforts of theatre staff, together with sponsorship from the Bank of Scotland worth £17,000, Pitlochry Festival Theatre has succeeded in raising more than four times the award funding. "We're absolutely delighted that our achievements have been recognised," said Paul McLennan, administrator of Pitlochry Festival Theatre. "Thanks to the Arts Council funding and Bank of Scotland's sponsorship, we have been able to achieve our aim of making the theatre a visitor attraction as well as a place to see A commemorative certificate was presented to theatre representatives by the Rt. Hon.

Tim Renton, Minister for the Arts, at a ceremony in London recently. The original aim was to raise 2 for every I of funding received from the Art Council's Incentive Funding Scheme. However, thanks to Scotland, and Paul McLennan, quality plays. "We've extended and improved our daytime facilities for visitors and have been able to stage a wide variety of popular productions. "Last year, a record 90,000 people visited the theatre and we're aiming for even more this year." The Arts Council's Incentive Funding Awards were introduced in 1988 to encourage and assist arts organisations to plan for their future, to increase selfsufficiency and generally to strengthen the arts infrastructure.

Pttlocttry Fistlva! Theatre, THAT famous fragment of local history, the Batik of the Clans, Is to be re-enacted on the North Inch this Sunday. It may not be as bloody as the original but the promise is that it will appear just as real. It was in 1396 that Clan Chattan lined up against their old rivals Clan Kay to settle their differences, with Robert 11l an onlooker. Thirty men fought on either side and apparently only 12 survived. Sir Waiter Scott may have romanticised the story in Ms book The Fair Maid of Perth and involved a local blacksmith, Hal o' the Wynd, who came from his dose off Methven Street to make the sides even.

There is even a suggestion that one combatant escaped death by dashing from the field and swimming the River Tay to safety. MI this is set to be repeated on Sunday afternoon when members of the well-known White Cockade Society bring their version al old events back to life. The society was founded to re-enact famous battles, mainly involving the Jacobites and their Hanovarian opposition. But the North Inch event will be a strictly one-off, with the society moving to an early age. Since it was founded, the society has been involved in filming when battle scenes were required.

It figures in an audio display exhibition on Rob Roy in Callendar and only last Sunday was again filmed at Killiecrankk for a future television production. Sunday's event is being sponsored by the Perth Partnership and the contestants will assemble in front of the City Hall at 2 p.m. They will then march behind Perth and District Pipe Band to the North Inch for the 2.30 p.m. start. Slimmer of the Year title for Dawn PERTH girl Dawn McDiarmid has been voted Trim- Slim's "Slimmer of the Year." And at a special club evening last week, slimming adviser Evelyn Nelson presented her model slimmer with flowers and an engraved salver.

Evelyn launched Slim- Trim (Perth) with one class in April, 1990. Since then, the club has grown in popularity and now hosts Monday and Wednesday evening sessions as well as a Thursday lunchtime class. The independent slimming approach adopted by Evelyn is aimed at helping people to lose weight by encouraging them to adopt healthier eating habits diets then become a thing of the past. Members are both male and female and range in age from 17 to 70-plus. Slimmer of the Year Dawn lost three stones to undercut her target weight and then held on to that weight loss.

Slim-Trim classes are held in Fiz Fitness Studio, Old High Street (Mondays 7.30 p.m.); North Muirton Community Centre (Wednesdays 7.30 p.m.); Fiz Fitness Studio (Thursdays noon). Evelyn has also been asked to hold Friday lunchtime sessions at the General Accident Pitheavlis offices, starting on August 16. bouquet from Evelyn Nelson. 4 -1! End of road for Fife bus bid A TEAM of managers and workers yesterday failed to persuade a judge that it should be allowed to re-open attempts to buy the Fife Scottish bus company. Last month, Scottish Secretary lan Lang announced that he was approving Stagecoach, the Perth-based private firm as the preferred bidder.

A bid by the consortium, under the name Henjac 171, was rejected. Henjac went to the Court of Session to challenge Mr Lang's decision in favour of Stagecoach, arguing that its offer was at least equal to Stagecoach's and should have been preferred. Henjac claimed that Mr Lang did not give proper consideration to its bid. However, Lord Coulsfield said Henjac had no established any grounds to justify him in granting its petition for judicial review of Mr Lang's decision. He will issue his reasons in writing later.

Mr Brian Souter, chairman of Stagecoach Holdings, said his company would 'maintain a comprehensive network of quality services at an affordable Concessionary schemes for senior citizens and the disabled would be honoured. 'Risk' driver was over limit ABERFELDY forestry worker Stuart Hogg took a chance and drove home after being out drinking. But he was stopped by polka and paid the penalty at Perth Sheriff Court when he was lined £250 and banned from driving for 12 months. The court was told that the offence took place at 2.10 a.m. on March 23, on the Kenmore Acharn road.

He was more than twice over the limit. In a letter to the court, Hogg (20), Lade Mill, Remony, said: "I took the risk as it was In the early hours of the morning on a quiet road over a abort distance." The line will be paid at £2O a week. 4 1 1 Evelyn Boyd and Charles Gallagher, both Perth married In Perth Registrar's Office. Georgina Miller end Regime Ahmmad, both Perth married in Perth Registrar's Office. In Perth Registrar's Office.

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Joanne Brown, Perth, and Carl Blair, Greentord Middlesex married In St Andrew's Church, Perth..