The Latest Breaking News from Loch Leven

Nancy Barron from Perth walked a 13-mile fundraiser course around lovely Loch Leven to raise the profile of stroke survivors and local support groups

The Scottish Government has overruled a council direction to developers they complete an Environmental Impact Assessment for a proposed 160-home development on land north of Davies Park

The Kinross-shire Local Committee was told Loch Leven had "high potential" as an energy source

Miller Homes has asked Scottish ministers to overrule a request from the local authority to supply an EIA to assure staff its plans to form new homes on land north of Davies Park will not have a significant impact on the environment

Councillor Willie Robertson has written to Scotland's environment minister to draw her attention to a recent discharge of sewage into Loch Leven and ask if anything can be do to stop further pollution incidents in future

The aim is to ensure phosphorus levels in the loch do not increase as a result of waste water from new developments in the Loch Leven area

The arrestingly modern, timber bird hide at Loch Leven NNR is back, having been rebuilt after being destroyed by fire. On Friday young people who had helped fundraise for the rebuild got to be at the opening ceremony of the aptly-named Phoenix Hide.

A crafty reserve officer has been creating what he hopes will be the perfect place for Goldeneye ducks to lay their eggs in a bid to make Kinross-shire a new breeding base for the rare species.