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With over 40 retailers and 200 people working at St John’s Shopping Centre it’s inevitable that we will have some news stories to tell. If you want to be kept up to date with the centre’s news, sign up to our monthly e-newsletter to be kept in the loop.
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A member of the Macmillan Cancer Support’s benefits advice team will be helping to “mac” a difference this Monday, 6th September, as part of St John’s Shopping Centre’s f...
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St John’s Shopping Centre is calling on members of the Perthshire public to donate their unwanted clothes, DVDs, CDs and bric a brac to the Macmill... Ever thought of volunteering and helping out in a charity shop? Well now’s your chance! Macmillan Cancer Support will be opening a charity shop dur... Quality jeweller, Ernest Jones, is to close for three weeks in August as part of a major facelift which will see the store move to a new, open plan... Mobile telephone giant, O2, has given its Perth store in St John’s Shopping Centre a major facelift as ... Coffee Republic’s new Flat White espresso based coffee drink is now available at St John’s Shopping Centre. Made with a double shot espresso topped with creamy textured hot milk, the Flat Whi... Multi-award winning wildlife photographer, writer and broadcaster Simon King, is to make a planned stop at Waterstones in St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth on Friday 16th April at 1pm to promote his... St John’s Shopping Centre has opened its doors to a photography exhibition, co-ordinated by Perth & Kinross Council’s Youth Service Team, which features work by young photographers from all ove...
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30 July 2010
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21 July 2010
The team at Bonmarche in St John's Shopping Centre, Perth, have been putting their fundraising skills to good use with a tombola in store which has raised £122 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
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St John’s Shopping Centre has announced plans for fashion retailer, Pilot, to open a store in the mall in June.
Pilot is one of the UK's leading young clothing brands for the fashion-conscious tee...
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30 April 2010
On Thursday 29th April, one lucky Perthshire school boy, Calum Pretious (12), will be taking part in a work experience day to remember. Local pastry chef Graeme Maxwell, who trained under celebrity ch...
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18 March 2010
Alistair Urquhart, a 90 year old war veteran from Broughty Ferry and author of The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East, is to make a planned stop at Wa...
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St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, launches its search this weekend for the very best photographic memories of the city that the people of Perth have to offer. This is in celebration of the City’s 800t...
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22 February 2010
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22 January 2010
St John’s Shopping Centre prides itself on being right at the heart of Perth’s community and, in response to recent customer feedback on the issue of seating, we have taken the decision to order and i...
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PBN’s fund-raising campaign in aid of local charity Home-Start Perth continues with the opening of a charity shop in St John’s Centre, Perth. Based in the former Actionwear unit with a frontage also o...
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18 December 2009
St John’s Shopping Centre is urging Christmas Shoppers to take time out from their hectic schedule this weekend to vote for Perth’s best letter to Santa.
For the last six weeks, children all over P...
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08 December 2009
Last minute Christmas shoppers will have the opportunity to get their Christmas gifts all wrapped up from 16th December by volunteers from Marie Curie Cancer Care, who will be wrapping gifts in St Joh...
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02 December 2009
The Evening Telegraph Youth Awards 2009 was an emotional evening, featuring stories of courage, determination and achievement, recognising the positive contribution young people make to society. Siobh...
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30 November 2009
Scotland’s best-loved TV historian, Neil Oliver, is to make a planned stop at Waterstones in St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth on Friday 4th December at 1pm to promote his new book “A History of Scotla...
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26 November 2009
St John’s Shopping Centre’s Santa has joined together with young businesses funded by Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust, an organization providing essential finance and support to young people a...
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St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, has come up with a novel way for parents to beat the queues this Christmas with the launch of their online booking system for visits to Santa’s Grotto.
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18 November 2009
As retail gears up for a busy festive period, St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, has announced that this Christmas they will be getting into the festive spirit with a traditional Christmas theme featur...
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05 November 2009
Never ones to pass up an opportunity to do something good for charity, the staff of Perth’s Bonmarche store in St John’s Shopping Centre, recently donned their pink pajamas for a day to “Wear it Pink”...
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Following the temporary closure of Shoe Zone in St John’s Shopping Centre a few weeks ago, St John’s Shopping Centre has announced that the store is to re-open this week as two combined stores: Stead ...
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Both GAME and HMV Stores will be opening at 12.01 am on Tuesday 10 November 2009 for the launch of Call of Duty 6. This crazy move will appeal to all hardened Call of Duty fans who want to get their t...
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29 October 2009
St John’s Shopping Centre has announced plans for Gimme Gizmo, the innovative gift and gadgets retailer, to open a store in St John’s Shopping Centre this weekend. The Perth store will be the fourth S...
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St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, has been shortlisted for the Business in the Community Award for the second year running in the 2009 Perthshire Chamber of Commerce Business Star Awards. The award, w...
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12 October 2009
St John’s Shopping Centre has announced plans for Images, the gift and accessories retailer, to open a store this week. The Perth store will be the second store for the retailer, which is based in Dun...
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06 October 2009
Not wishing to miss out on the fundraising opportunity of a coffee morning for MacMillan Cancer Support, Bonmarche stores across the UK held tombolas in place of cups of tea, raising £2515 for the wor...
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St John’s Shopping Centre has announced plans for Ramsdens, a specialist consumer financial services organisation that primarily helps people to obtain cash, to open a store in the mall in October 200...
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15 September 2009
St John’s Shopping Centre has announced plans for Dundee based retailer, The Jute Co, to open a store in the mall in October this year.
J.Co offers customers a unique range of jute products includ...
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15 September 2009
Since winning Channel 4’s Orange Unsigned Act competition in January this year, landing a record deal with A&M Records, and achieving chart success with his first two singles Gimme A Call and Jack...
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09 September 2009
St John’s Shopping Centre has announced plans for specialist retailer, Calendar Club, to open a store in the mall in October this year. St John’s Shopping Centre has demonstrated a strong sustained in...
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08 September 2009
St John’s Shopping Centre has scored a coup for Perth by securing the first local exhibition of caricaturist Craig Rogalski’s works of famous faces, fresh from their return from their first exhibition...
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07 September 2009
Master crime writer, Ian Rankin, is to make a planned stop at Waterstones in St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth on Friday 11th September at 1pm to promote his new book “The Complaints”. Rankin was born ...
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04 September 2009
Champion charity fundraiser, Lloyd Scott, is undertaking a COLOSSAL challenge to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust by walking from Land’s End to John O’Groats alongside a lifesize replica of the Ty...
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16 July 2009
A PERTHSHIRE couple will be married later this year after an unusual proposal found favour. With the assistance of staff in Ernest Jones jewellers in the St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, Chris Jackso...
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16 July 2009
Staff at Bonmarche in St John's Shopping Centre, Perth, recently took part in a national fundraising campaign in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, raising £170 in store for the charity.
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13 July 2009
Shoppers flocked to St John’s Shopping Centre in Perth at the weekend to take part in the centre’s latest competition to win a family holiday to Disneyland Paris, by guessing how long a massive block ...
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A Kinross GP, Dr Roddy Pattison, who set off on a “Virtual Ventoux” bike ride in St John’s Shopping Centre on Friday, to raise vital funds for Macmillan Cancer Support, has raised almost £450 for the ...
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03 July 2009
With figures announced earlier this week by VisitBritain indicating more people than ever will be holidaying in the UK this summer, the thoughts of getting on a flight to somewhere hot and sunny is in...
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29 June 2009
Kinross GP, Dr Roddy Pattison, will be taking on “rounds” of a different kind this Friday, 3rd July, as he sets off on a “Virtual Ventoux” cycling fundraiser taking place in St John’s Shopping Centre,...
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Shoppers and retail staff at St John’s Shopping Centre in Perth participated in an unplanned evacuation this morning, following the discovery of an unmanned suitcase found in Pounland and belonging to...
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14 May 2009
St John’s Shopping Centre’s Manager, Siobhan McConnell, will be vying with five others for the coveted title of Shopping Centre Manager of the Year (small shopping centre) at the prestigious national ...
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13 May 2009
A large wood carving of the well known comedian Lenny Henry, created by St John’s Shopping Centre during their Red Nose Day fundraising events, has been donated to local charity PKAVS to showcase at t...
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Perth Safer City Initiative was today awarded with the Safer Shopping Award 2009 by assessors from the Scottish Business Crime Centre. The award recognises excellence in crime reduction practice and p...
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On Thursday 30th April, five Perthshire school children will be taking home a work experience day to remember. St John’s Shopping Centre in Perth is playing host to five local school children in part ...
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27 March 2009
A fundraising campaign, on an unprecedented scale, mounted by St John’s Shopping Centre in aid of Comic Relief has netted the charity a staggering £3250 as Perth shoppers got involved in the festiviti...
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18 March 2009
The girls in True Scots raised over £90 to wear their kilts to work on Red Nose Day.
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14 March 2009
THE PEOPLE of Perth threw themselves into the spirit of Red Nose Day yesterday and helped raise thousands for Comic Relief. Nowhere was busier with Comic Relief events than the St John’s Shopping Cent...
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14 March 2009
SHOPPERS at the St John’s Centre in Perth were yesterday given a hair-raising experience for Comic Relief. Top Scottish hairdresser Charlie Taylor, who is based in the city, was on hand during the mor...
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12 March 2009
The team at St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, are gearing up for a Red Nose Day to remember this Friday with a whole host of events taking place to encourage you to give generously to Comic Relief. Th...
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12 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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12 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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12 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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11 March 2009
Visitors to St John’s Shopping Centre have been getting their best jokes out for intenational airing, in a bid to encourage YouTube viewers to donate to their current Comic Relief fundraising campaign...
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11 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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11 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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11 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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11 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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11 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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10 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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10 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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10 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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10 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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10 March 2009
St John's Shopping Centre visitors get into the spirit of Comic Relief. If you like our jokes, please donate to our cause online at : www.myrednoseday.com/stjohns
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09 March 2009
THE FUN of Comic Relief got under way in Perth city centre on Saturday and shoppers were blinking in disbelief as they were confronted by a familiar face at the St John’s Centre. Read the full article...
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09 March 2009
Getting their Comic Relief fundraising campaign off to a whopping start, the team at St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth raised over £1000 through a series of fundraising activities this weekend. Launchi...
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04 March 2009
With Red Nose Day 09 fast approaching, the team at St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth reckon they NOSE just how to get you to part with your cash. This Saturday they will launch a week of fundraising ac...
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20 February 2009
The WALL:E wood carving, donated by St John’s Shopping Centre in Perth, has this week raised £600 at a London charity auction for Make a Wish, a charity that grants magical wishes to children facing l...
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17 February 2009
Staff and customers of Bonmarché in St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, celebrated 10 years of supporting MacMillan Cancer Support by taking part in a two day fundraising event in the store. Staging a f...
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20 January 2009
Two very large wood carvings, by world championship chainsaw carver Peter Bowsher, have this week been donated for auction to benefit two major charities, Make a Wish and the Princes Trust, by St John...
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07 January 2009
As 32 teams battle it out in the fourth round of the Homecoming Scottish Cup this weekend, supporters will get the chance to experience the glory of the tournament when the oldest footballing trophy i...
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15 December 2008
Last minute Christmas shoppers will have the opportunity to get their Christmas gifts all wrapped up this weekend by volunteers from Marie Curie Cancer Care, who will be wrapping gifts in St John’s Sh...
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Room at the Inn? St John’s Shopping Centre Opens its Doors to the Nativity An ecumenical body with representatives from 27 churches and Christian communities from Perth and the surrounding area have b...
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28 November 2008
Be on your guard, that cheeky snowman is back! The award winning chainsaw carver, Peter Bowsher, will be outside St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth this Sunday from 12pm – 3pm, carving out his latest ma...
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26 November 2008
ONE OF Britain’s best-known journalists was in Perth yesterday to launch her latest book.
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26 November 2008
BBC war correspondent Kate Adie yesterday swapped the front line for the quieter surroundings of a Perth bookshop.
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24 November 2008
The award winning chainsaw carver, Peter Bowsher, was outside St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth on Sunday, carving out a place in history for Disney’s blockbuster character Wall-E. Chainsaw Pete has al...
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If you missed it, see Santa's Parade on You Tube!
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The multi-award winning BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie, is to make a planned stop at Waterstones in St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth on Tuesday 25th November at 12.30pm to promote her new book “Into...
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10 November 2008
As retail gears up for a busy festive period, St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, has announced that this Christmas they will be getting back to basics with none other than a GREEN SANTA! But rather tha...
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04 November 2008
St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, has been shortlisted for the Business in the Community Award in the 2008 Perthshire Chamber of Commerce Business Star Awards. The award, which recognises businesses t...
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24 October 2008
With families tightening their belts because of the “credit crunch” and unemployment hitting its highest point in several years, Perth’s local shopping centre is bucking the national trend. A sudden i...
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15 October 2008
Calendar Club to Open in St John’s Shopping Centre St John’s Shopping Centre has announced plans for specialist retailer, Calendar Club, to open a store in the mall. This announcement marks the third ...
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06 October 2008
The credit crunch may be hitting the high street hard but shoppers should rest assured that they can find amazing value at Poundland, which has just announced plans to open in St John’s Shopping Centr...
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29 September 2008
St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth has announced that Coffee Republic Deli is due to open this month at the King Edward Street entrance to the shopping mall. The Coffee Republic Deli is the first of its...
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15 September 2008
From this week, St John’s Shopping Centre in Perth will be opening its doors as the latest training venue for Tayside Police’s specialist ‘sniffer’ dogs. Members of the Tayside Police Dog Section will...
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The world’s largest cruise campaign launches this week and Thomson, in St John’s Shopping Centre is one of 2,000 travel agencies in Britain holding events to highlight the world of cruising. A record ...
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The Love Bug Jute Bag, design by pop icon Sandi Thom exclusively for St John’s Shopping Centre in Perth, Scotland, has proved a hit with local fans on the first weekend of the campaign. The “Love Bug ...
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Staff from the Bonmarche store in St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth, will be waving goodbye to their area manager today – with a difference! Ditching his company car in favour of the humble bicycle, Se...
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12 August 2008
St John’s Shopping Centre has bagged a UK first with the launch of their very own eco-bag, designed by international pop star Sandi Thom. The “Love Bug Jute Bag” which is the first eco-bag in the UK t...
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06 August 2008
Crieff High School pupil, Jack Ward (16) has snapped up the top prize in St John’s Shopping Centre’s Pop into Perth photography competition, netting himself a top of the range digital camera worth £20...
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22 July 2008
Rannoch Day Centre clients are enjoying a fresh view this month with the arrival of three very large scale posters, recently shown in St John’s Shopping Centre during their Pop into Perth photographic...
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05 July 2008
Dundee woman, Debbie MacFarlane, has scooped the top prize worth over £500 in St John’s Shopping Centre’s recent Mrs Jones and the Temple of Shopping competition which was run alongside the launch of ...
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01 July 2008
Young Jamie McNair, 6, from Auchterarder will be getting his school holidays off to a playful start after winning the top prize in St John’s Shopping Centre’s recent Young Jones and the Temple of Lost...
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St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth has announced positive first month results, which shows them bucking a national trend of declining footfall in UK shopping centres, following their introduction of Thu...
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St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth has concluded a deal with retailer BSkyB for a new retail kiosk in the centre. The kiosk, which will trade as Sky, will offer visitors to St John’s Shopping Centre the...
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05 June 2008
St John’s Shopping Centre is issuing a call to action to all budding young photographers to take part in their latest competition, run in conjunction with Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Pop into Perth:...
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St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth has announced a new retail unit for the clothing and gift retailer “True Scots” will open in South Street Mall just in time for the start of the high tourist season in...
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St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth has launched a free weekly job alert service to promote retail career opportunities to local job seekers. With forty retailers under one roof, and over 200 people work...
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View clips from Sandi's busking tour of Scotland on YouTube.
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19 May 2008
St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth has announced that Scottish singer-songwriter, Sandi Thom, will celebrate the release of her new album, ‘The Pink & The Lily’, with a free gig and album signing at...
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St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth has announced a series of free “fringe” Perthshire Festival of the Arts concerts to celebrate the launch of its late night shopping which will start on Thursday 22nd M...
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08 May 2008
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03 May 2008
St John’s Shopping Centre has raised a whopping £2300 for Tayside Mountain Rescue in its recent fundraising campaign which featured a week long series of events in and around the centre. The campaign,...
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Only thirty lucky local Grand Theft Auto fans will be able to get their hands on a copy of the latest release, GTA IV, of the renowned computer game Grand Theft Auto when it is made available on gener...
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25 April 2008
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24 April 2008
On Thursday 24th April, five Perthshire school children will be taking home a work experience day to remember. St John’s Shopping Centre in Perth is playing host to five local school children in part ...
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11 April 2008
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11 April 2008
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09 April 2008
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08 April 2008
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08 April 2008
Rebel the Tayside Police Puppy makes a welcome visit to St John's Shopping Centre's The Perfume Shop.
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08 April 2008
A Suzuki GSX650F motorbike signed by Top Gear’s Richard Hammond is one of the top prizes up for grabs in St John’s Shopping Centre’s Full Throttle raffle which is being held this week to raise funds f...
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07 April 2008
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07 April 2008
Pup helps raise cash for tayside mountain rescue..... full story available in the Press & Journal at:
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07 April 2008
Rebel the Tayside Police Puppy takes a break from his fundraising activities at St John's Shopping Centre with the Thomson Holiday girls...... now is that deal to Mauritius for two weeks still availab...
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06 April 2008
Rebel the Tayside Police puppy dog came to St John's Shopping Centre on Saturday 5th April to help out with a good cause: raising money for Tayside Mountain Rescue. The young internet star had trouble...
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03 April 2008
St John’s Shopping Centre has set its sights high for a 9 day long charitable fundraising campaign to raise money for local rescue service Tayside Mountain Rescue. Targeting a whopping £5,000 peak, it...
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31 March 2008
An ‘Aladdin’s cave’ for food connoisseurs and those interested in healthy eating, cooking and nostalgic confectionery has opened in Perth. The UK’s leading speciality food retailer, Julian Graves, has...
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Perth based agency, Volpa, has been appointed by St John’s Shopping Centre to manage their PR and Marketing requirements for 2008 following a competitive three way pitch. Volpa, which was founded by s...
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