MACDUFF British Legion club premises will close their doors for the final time after this weekend.

CHANGES in the squad line-up at Deveronvale were revealed this week as the team prepare for their pre-season friendly fixtures.

IT may be slipping down the news agenda, but the bow wave of the economic recession is really now beginning to wash over businesses in our area.

CELEBRATING your 60th birthday by jumping out of a plane may not be everyone's idea of a party but local granny, Ann Kindness, could think of no better way to mark the day.

TEN years on from devolution and the reconvening of the Scottish Parliament, it is entirely fitting that discussion of the arrangements by which Scotland is governed should again be high on the agenda.

A BANFF poet and songwriter has battled chronic illness to produce a new CD of poetry to benefit a local dolphin group.

CALLING all local musicians: the Banffshire Journal wants you – and your music - on our website.

HAVE you a blog you think deserves a wider audience? This is your opportunity to get it known. We don't mind what you write about as long as it keeps us interested or entertained and the subject or the author is from our area.

I AM trying to find some information on my great-grandad's sea life.