Scots dance star Grum looks to follow in Mylo’s footsteps

Daily Record – WE’VE had Mylo and Calvin Harris – but the next Scots dance superstar is set to be a man called Grum. The producer, whose single Can’t Shake This Feeling is currently burning up dancefloors, is set for success this year – and he is set to kick it all off by playing [...]

Great north fun!

Scottish Sun – IT’S time for another six wannabes to stand-up and deliver in The Scottish Sun’s Take The Mic contest. Comedian Des McLean will host the fun at Ironworks in Academy Street, Inverness, tomorrow night. And the audience will include 100 squaddies from Fort George Barracks. It’s the second heat in the race for [...]

P&J reader wins fuel-saving Honda hybrid

Press and Journal – A PRESS and Journal reader from Aberdeenshire has been handed the keys to a new Honda Insight 1.3SE Hybrid. Jennifer Milne won the car, which has an electric motor as well as a petrol engine, in a competition run by the newspaper and Town and County Honda. Competition entrants had to [...]

Killer Nat Fraser launches new bid for freedom

Daily Record – Nat Fraser has failed time and again to cheat justice for the murder of wife Arlene. But now the system is giving him another chance – a final appeal to the UK Supreme Court. In a ruling that will horrify Arlene’s grieving family, the court in London has agreed to listen to [...]

Steamy wedding for Robert and Emma

Daily Record – TRAIN-LOVING groom Robert Thomson started married life on the right track – by tying the knot on a station platform. Then he and bride Emma Ranyard had their reception on a steam train trip through the Highlands. Robert, 32, and Emma, 33, exchanged vows at Aviemore station in Inverness-shire before celebrating with [...]

Mackie’s ice cream to be sold in China

Times Online – MACKIE’S, the Scottish ice-cream maker, is to sell its products in China for the first time as part of an ambitious overseas expansion drive. The firm’s best-selling flavours, such as vanilla, honeycomb and raspberry ripple, are to go on sale in Chinese cities after a positive response to test products sent to [...]

Policemen race to raise charity cash

Press and Journal – A TEAM of intrepid Aberdeenshire police officers took on one of Scotland’s most famous racing circuits yesterday to raise hundreds of pounds for charity. The six-man squad negotiated the famous Knockhill circuit in Fife, raising more than £1,000 for Sense Scotland, which supports deaf, blind and disabled children.

Thousands of visitors flock to Coast Festival

Press and Journal – TENS of thousands of visitors flocked to neighbouring north-east towns at the weekend for a celebration of arts, crafts and music. A huge game of noughts and crosses and a maze made out of colourful wool were just some of the unusual attractions at this year’s Coast Festival. Venues across Banff [...]

Councils attacked over lack of ‘green’ cars

STV – Just 17 out of 16,000 vehicles used by Scotland’s councils are environmentally friendly, it has been revealed. Only four authorities – Aberdeenshire, Dundee, Edinburgh and Moray – use green vehicles, according to the figures released by the Liberal Democrats.

Superbug cases cut at NHS Grampian

Press and Journal – SUPERBUG infections at Grampian hospitals have been slashed according to new figures. The number of patients contracting the potentially fatal Clostridium difficile virus has fallen steadily since a peak two years ago.

Relief as authority’s plans for Moray travellers rejected

Press and Journal – A Moray community is breathing “a sigh of relief” after council proposals to set up a site for travellers at Nether Dallachy were rejected by the Crown Estate. The local authority wrote to the Crown Estate earlier this month asking to lease a portion of its land on Dallachy airfield for [...]

Sacked provost gives free hugs to supporters

Press and Journal – OUSTED Nairn Provost Liz MacDonald kept a weekend promise to hug her supporters and gave a special embrace to the campaigner who entered cyberspace to fight her corner.

Dingwall High Street reopens in style

Press and Journal – DINGWALL High Street reopened in style on Saturday after a £1million upgrade by Highland Council. A street fair followed a parade of local uniformed organisations led by the British Legion Pipe Band. The opening ceremony featured performances by Dingwall Gaelic Choir and the Corona Celtica ceilidh band from Dingwall Academy. A [...]

Housing expo backers are seeking more cash

Press and Journal – The organisers of a Highland housing project which has already cost the public purse more than £3million want another £60,000 to promote the properties – this time from the Inverness common good fund.

Whisky is toast of the nation as big earner

Press and Journal – The importance of Moray and Speyside’s whisky industry to the Scottish economy has been highlighted in a new report that shows the sector helps support 35,000 jobs north of the border and is as significant as tourism.

Learn about living a greener lifestyle at council events

Press and Journal – People will be shown how they can save hundreds of pounds by cutting down on waste at events in the Highlands this week.

Highlands local food producers ‘feel isolated’

BBC – Local food producers feel “unsupported and isolated” even though help is available to them, Highland Council officers have suggested.

Police name teenage crash victim

BBC – A teenager who died in a crash near Banchory, Aberdeenshire, has been named by police. Mark Scott, 19, from Torphins, died at the scene of the crash which happened on the A980 Banchory to Torphins Road at about 2245 BST on Saturday. He was the passenger in a Mini Cooper which was in [...]

Eyesores on the prize for worst building

Scotsman – IT IS the prize no professional would ever wish to collect and the last award for which any self respecting company would seek to be shortlisted. Architects and designers around the country are holding their breath as organisers of the annual contest to find Scotland’s “most dismal place” name this year’s contenders.

Alexander appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury

STV – Inverness MP Danny Alexander has become Chief Secretary to the Treasury after the sudden resignation from the post of David Laws. Mr Laws quit on Saturday evening after admitting he had claimed expenses – said to total £40,000 – to pay rent to his partner. He had earlier said he would pay back [...]

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