Keep an eye on the latest updates throughout Scotland on our live feed below. Scotland faces 142 MPH winds today as trees, and travel disruptions take place. There are still several warnings placed across Tayside.
Health Secretary Shona Robison has announced that she will be exercising Ministerial powers of intervention and moving NHS Tayside to the highest level of escalation.
The Perth and Kinross Community Safety Committee was told today (Wednesday 5 March 2014) that Perth and Kinross has seen reductions in violent crime with 26 fewer crimes recorded