ABERDEENSHIRE Council last night (Monday, June 18) lit the blue touchpaper under plans for a raft of community and sports facilities in Banff and Macduff linked to the Tesco Bridge Road development at
Published: Thu 13 Jun 2013
A WOMAN who was killed yesterday after her car left the A981 road near New Deer and smashed into a tree has been named by police as Mary Jane Gillespie.
Published: Wed 12 Jun 2013
NORTH-EAST livestock farmers were put on alert today (Wednesday, June 12) after a case of Schmallenberg Disease (SBV) was confirmed in a calf born to a homebred, suckler heifer on a farm outside Aberdeen.
Published: Wed 12 Jun 2013
EX-DEVERONVALE and Buckie Thistle manager Gregg Carrol has pleaded not guilty to being involved in the making and distribution of indecent images of children. Carrol (41) appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Tuesday (June 11) facing three charges and will now stand trial.
Published: Tue 11 Jun 2013
ABERDEENSHIRE Council leader Jim Gifford has hinted that local authority officials will adopt a clean-sheet aproach to how Tesco's £10million will be spent on new sports and leisure facilities in Banff and Macduff. Local residents and sports and community groups have been invited to a crucial public engagement meeting on Monday evening (June 17) in Banff Academy's main assembly hall, starting at 7pm.
Published: Tue 11 Jun 2013
ABERDEENSHIRE Council is set to consider the imposition of an official moratorium on wind turbine applications and backing for a call on the Scottish Government to cut wind farm subsidies drastically or scrap them altogether. The North-east local authority's planning department dealt with more wind turbine applications than the rest of Scotland put together last year, according to council leader Jim Gifford.
Published: Tue 11 Jun 2013
A RALLYING call from Portsoy and District Community Council urging people to join it proved successful with the group having more than doubled its numbers. For most of this year the group has failed to hold meetings due to a lack of members to form a quorum.
Published: Tue 11 Jun 2013
NEW Deer residents have demanded an independent inquiry into why a compost fire at a recycling plant near the village was allowed to burn for almost ten months. Unhappy villagers feared for their health as the pall of smoke blew across parts of the village from Keenan Recycling's waste handling facility from June last year until April, when the blaze was finally extinguished.
Published: Mon 10 Jun 2013
A SHERIFF told a court last week that very little detail had been presented to justify why an Aberchirder police sergeant had failed to appear in court to face child pornography charges. Neil Shand, whose address in court papers was 28 North Street, is alleged to have had indecent images of his children in his home.
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