Rest and Be Thankful: More than £2million paid to private landowner of...
Hefty payments date back to 2012 for use of the 270-year-old single-track Old Military Road.
View ArticleJilted north-east MP David Duguid considers Holyrood 2026 comeback as new...
The former Banff and Buchan Tory MP was ditched by his party while in hospital and controversially replaced by Douglas Ross at the Westminster election.
View ArticleTwo Aberdeenshire councillors defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform after quitting...
Former council leader Mark Findlater and Laurie Carnie are the first Reform councillors in Scotland.
View ArticleDitched Aberdeenshire Labour candidate’s ‘pro-Russia’ suspension misery...
Andy Brown claims the party’s HQ told him he had NEVER actually been suspended - but soon found out he’s still in limbo.
View ArticleDavid Knight: My shock and sadness at seeing Alex Salmond’s coffin pass by as...
"It was hard to accept he’d gone - a one-of-a-kind political warrior who ran rings around his opponents at his peak; a life snuffed out prematurely and totally unexpectedly."
View ArticleTorphins mum forced to give new-born baby CPR during ‘frightening’ long wait...
The traumatised family demands answers over why it took so long for help to arrive as they fought to save the baby's life, minutes after giving birth.
View ArticleNorth East MSP Maggie Chapman calls Hamas the ‘democratically elected’...
The Aberdeen-based Green was asked if it was right for the Palestinian militants to be classed as a terror group.
View ArticleGB Energy chair will NOT be based in Aberdeen
Jurgen Maier, the publicly owned energy company’s boss, will be staying hundreds of miles away.
View ArticleNorth-east oil workers are warming to Green way of thinking, says Patrick Harvie
The Greens are often cast by political rivals as being out of touch with voters in the region.
View ArticlePolitical opponents pay tribute to Alex Salmond ahead of his funeral
Mary Scanlon and Lewis Macdonald are among the political opponents who respected the former First Minister as a formidable figure.
View ArticleEx-A9 dualling inquiry official reveals his parents narrowly avoided head-on...
John Erksine helped run Holyrood’s probe into the long-promised road upgrade and, after a leaked report on its findings, explains why it is “personal” to so many Highlanders.
View ArticleAlex Salmond’s minister reveals fond memories as funeral takes place in Strichen
From politics to 'Rev I. M. Jolly' impersonations, the family’s minister recalls serious and light-hearted discussions before the private service in his Aberdeenshire home village today.
View ArticleAlex Salmond’s family feel ‘grief of a nation’ as former first minister laid...
The former SNP leader's family and close friends gathered at Strichen Parish Church to pay their respects on Tuesday afternoon.
View ArticleInside the village pub as Strichen gathers to toast Alex Salmond on day of...
The former first minister has been remembered as a "down to earth man" by the villagers who knew him as a part of their community.
View Article‘Difficult day’ for North Sea oil and gas as Chancellor announces windfall...
Offshore energy trade body OEUK warned about the impact of tax decisions - but see signs the Labour government is engaging with the sector.
View ArticleFarmers clobbered over inheritance tax changes
Scottish Tories say 'appalling' decision to reduce relief entitlements will be 'catastrophic' for many family farms.
View ArticleElgin’s £38 million Levelling Up bounty SAFE from Westminster budget cuts:...
Worries had been raised that ambitious plans could be cancelled as part of spending cuts.
View ArticleEuan McColm: Swinney needs to stop playing the victim over winter fuel cut –...
The First Minister’s insistence on blaming the UK Government for his decision to means test winter fuel payments is pure spin, aimed at deflecting attention from his government’s failings.
View ArticleSNP health chief says sorry to Torphins family forced to give new-born CPR...
The family had to take over-the-phone instructions from 999 call handlers hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire.
View ArticleAberdeen mum shares tough juggle with council role – and how it could be easier
"You end up feeling like you're having to pick between one and the other, and one's got to give"
View Article5 times Donald Trump locked horns with SNP leaders, from Aberdeenshire golf...
John Swinney is the latest Scottish leader to get embroiled with the US presidential candidate and north-east golf course owner.
View ArticleAlex Salmond: Police investigating new sexual assault allegation
A woman reported the alleged incident, said to be "non recent", after the death of the former first minister.
View ArticleVoters in Alex Salmond’s home village can’t vote Alba in Aberdeenshire...
The former first minister’s party is not running any candidates in three separate contests across the north-east this week.
View ArticleAberdeen MSP Audrey Nicoll reacts after bus-gate rebel husband quits SNP
Alex Nicoll quit Aberdeen City Council's SNP group last week partly in protest at the city centre bus gates "mistake".
View ArticleNorth and north-east MPs join attack on UK minister over ‘family farm tax’
MPs debate controversial changes in House of Commons.
View ArticleNorth-east MP Andrew Bowie gets Shadow Scottish Secretary role after backing...
The MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine will replace Borders MP John Lamont, who appears to have backed the wrong candidate.
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Ex-Fraserburgh councillor Brian Topping rejoins SNP after...
The veteran nationalist, who represented Fraserburgh for 38 years, said he even nearly ended up standing in this week’s byelection.
View ArticleWestern Isles MP congratulates ‘son of Lewis’ Donald Trump – but yearns for...
Torcuil Crichton noted Trump’s ancestral roots as Scots wake to the shock US election result.
View ArticleAll you need to know as FOUR byelections held in Aberdeenshire and Moray today
Contests are being held in Fraserburgh and District, Mearns, Central Buchan, and Elgin City South.
View ArticlePeterhead power station protesters lock themselves to Holyrood – and send key...
Extinction Rebellion activists oppose SNP plans to open a second gas station and carbon capture facilities.
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