Aberdeen & North East

Scotland tops the UK league table for small firms creating new jobs, but the time taken to scale-up to critical mass is slower than elsewhere, according to new research.

Women who become pregnant soon after having a miscarriage are more likely to have a successful pregnancy than those who wait to conceive, research suggests.

AN ABERDEENSHIRE railway station which closed over 50 years ago will be revived - if authorities can plug a £2.9m funding gap.

Police want to trace this man following a series of assaults on females close to Aberdeen University.

Swedish flat pack furniture giant Ikea has reiterated its commitment to investing in Britain following the Brexit vote, as its sales continue their upward trajectory.

The embattled UK oil and gas sector faces further cuts after two-thirds of businesses have already shed staff this year but signs are starting to emerge of improving confidence, a report today suggests.

A new museum for Aberdeen will feature the city’s most influential citizens with the first six people to be honoured now revealed.

A day out to an ancient Aberdeenshire castle left one family spooked after a ghostly figure appeared in the background of one of their photographs.

Law firm Burness Paull said confidence in the deal-making community was strong after completing close to 50 agreements in the past quarter.

The family of a teenager missing from Inverness has been informed after a body was discovered on the Aberdeenshire coast.

Aberdeen Asset Management today warned that Brexit negotiations and the start of Donald Trump’s term as US president will contribute to “ongoing volatility in global markets in the short term”.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital after being attacked in the early hours.

A major Aberdeen office development will become home to hundreds of Wood Group staff after a £54 million refinancing deal, it was announced today.

A teenager has been charged after a 13-year-old girl who took ecstasy was taken to hospital.

THE parents of two-year-old Finn Mackin have praised the selfless acts of strangers who helped save their son from a rare form of leukaemia.

THREE teenagers have been taking a break from their studies – to help oversee the building of their new school.

Police were called to a university talk by George Galloway after protesters showered him with glitter.

Some say it’s a dialect, others say its a language. All we know is it’s practically impossible to understand unless you were born within 60 miles of the mouth of the River Don! Can you answer these 25 Doric words and phrases correctly?