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Inverness, Highlands & Islands More Inverness, Highlands & Islands >>

Aberdeen & North East More Aberdeen & North East >>

UK street artist Hush has transformed the Aberdeen branch of John Lewis with his signature style. PIC: Louise Kendal/Contributed.

Aberdeen’s grey granite transformed by international street art festival

$Emergency services were called to the Esplanade at 12.40am on Friday. Picture: Stephen McKay\Geograph$

Two women die after being pulled from sea off Aberdeen beach

Jim McColl was at the helm of the BBC Scotland show when it began broadcasting in 1978. Picture: BBC

Beechgrove gardening guru Jim McColl retires after 41-year run

News

Professor David Alexander and Ian Clark. Picture: Contributed

Piper Alpha trauma veteran joins IED Training Solutions

Companies

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, centre, attends an event in Bandar Seri Begawan. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Aberdeen University revokes Sultan’s degree over gay stoning laws

Education

The venture by Robert Gordon University aims to retain 'ambitious' talent in the area. Picture: The Gatehouse - Design & Print Consultancy.

Accelerator aiming to boost North-east creative firepower

Companies

Scene from Local Hero. Credit: Photo by Enigma/Goldcrest/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5879594f)'Peter Riegert, Chris Rozycki

Telephone mast plans on hold in Local Hero village

News

Ellon engineer SengS unveils new MD

Companies

One third of Scotrail services arrive early

Transport

Aberdeen’s Wood lands contract for Hinkley Point nuclear plant

News

The best days out in Aberdeen according to Trip Advisor

Travel

Dundee & Tayside More Dundee & Tayside >>

Design/Play/Disrupt opens at V&A Dundee on Saturday 20 April.

Big crowds expected as Dundee V&A gears up for videogames exhibition

Conde Nast Traveler has rated Dundee ahead of Glasgow and Edinburgh in its new guide. Pictures; Creative Commons

Scottish city named in new guide to UK’s best city breaks

Travel

Dundee art student and songwriter Kayleigh Shields has had her track Remember Use chosen as the National Theatre of Scotland's first music single.

New Dundee anthem becomes National Theatre of Scotland's first music single

News

The rare copy of a 1939 Dandy Monster Comic that has fetched almost 1,300 pounds at auction. Picture: Andy Newman/PA Wire

Rare 1938 DC Thomson Dandy annual fetches £1250 at auction

News

These are the 10 'best places' in Scotland to live in 2019

Homes & Gardens

Scottish couple capture starlight proposal in incredible photos

Lifestyle

Public warned not to approach absconded Scottish prisoner

News

Juror faints after seeing Scottish murder trial evidence

News

Glasgow & Strathclyde More Glasgow & Strathclyde >>

Peter Barr, from Govan, travelled the world in search of daffodils and did much to popularise the bold yellow bloom. PIC: Creative Commons.

The blooming story of Peter Barr, Govan’s ‘daffodil king’

Under new plans the town of Dunoon could get a cable car and an 'alpine coaster'. Pictures: Christine Matthews/Geograph, Pixabay, TVB Imst/Flickr

Plans to revive Scottish seaside town with cable car and rollercoaster

Attempted murder probe launched after teenager chased through Glasgow park and attacked

Crime

Police have arrested four teenagers in connection with the incident.

Four teens arrested following mass disturbance at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park

Crime

Police Scotland make arrests in Kelvingrove park incident

Crime

Three-year-old injured as father attacked in attempted carjacking in Johnstone

Crime

Glasgow family shocked as council worker attacks rat with golf club in their kitchen

Victorian home with games room, gym and spa hits the market in idyllic location near Glasgow

Edinburgh, Fife & Lothians More Edinburgh, Fife & Lothians >>

Video: Giant rats running riot on Scottish housing estate

Welsh was shot dead outside his home in Edinburgh's west end

Bradley Welsh murder: Prime suspect spotted outside victim’s house ‘week before’

Crime

Illustration: Colin Heggie

Writer puts women of Scotland on map at last

The accident happened near Seton Sands holiday village.

Motorcyclist dies after crash on East Lothian coastal road

Hibs fans stage minute’s applause for Bradley Welsh

Football

Edinburgh Airport could be sold in £2bn deal

Business

Police deploy sniffer dogs at Easter Road ahead of Hibs v Celtic match

Crime

Snagging delays on Queensferry Crossing ‘unacceptable’

Dumfries & Borders More Dumfries & Borders >>

The buses have space for two bikes with two more to follow

Here's Scotland's first bus you can wheel your bike onto

The Electric Fields festival was launched in 2014 at Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries & Galloway.

Electric Fields festival forced into refunds climbdown after relocating from Dumfries & Galloway castle to Glasgow warehouse

News

Jane Haining, a Scots missionary based in Budapest, was murdered by Nazis in 1944

Scots missionary Jane Haining to be honoured at Holcaust memorial in Budapest

Politics

Trees covering a stretch of the line south of St Boswells. Picture: The Scotsman

How UK-Scottish Government rivalry could help extend Borders Railway – Alastair Dalton

Opinion

55% of young people in Dumfries and Galloway ‘plan to leave’

Dumfries

Scotland must not abandon the south-west – leader comment

Opinion

Dumfries and Galloway could lose more than half of young people in region

News

Plan to extend Borders Railway to England given major boost

Transport