Sainsbury’s reveals plans for Elgin store

Press and Journal – Elgin residents met representatives of a supermarket giant at the weekend to hear plans to build their first store in the area and create 500 jobs. Sainsbury’s wants to demolish the former cattle mart in New Elgin Road and build a store and filling station. A pre-application consultation on the issue [...]

Communities minister checks out progress of projects

Press and Journal – THE Scottish minister for housing and communities visited Elgin yesterday to look at recent projects designed to attract more visitors and local people to the town centre. MSP Alex Neil looked at a variety of street improvements that cost £600,000. The Scottish Government’s town-centre regeneration fund provided money for the projects, [...]

Victim’s Facebook bid to keep rapist caged

Scottish Sun – A RAPE victim has bravely waived her right to stay anonymous – by setting up a Facebook campaign to keep her attacker behind bars. Traumatised Nicky Jones, 25, thought she was finally safe from her pervert stepdad Karl Roberts after he was caged for repeatedly assaulting her when she was aged just [...]

Jail for Moray pair who hid heroin inside their bodies

Press and Journal – A man and a woman who hid heroin worth more than £12,000 in their bodies were jailed yesterday. Michael Burrows, 51, and Sophie Griffiths, 21, were detained on Rothes High Street earlier this year after police received a tip-off. No drugs were found when they were strip-searched – but five hours [...]

Inverness worker sacked for failing to wear glasses

Press and Journal – An employment tribunal in Inverness heard yesterday that a line worker for a medical equipment company was sacked after he failed to wear his glasses and allowed defective equipment to pass through his checks. Duncan MacKenzie, 38, of High Street, Forres, had worked for Lifescan, Beechwood Park, Inverness, for eight years [...]

Musicians get help with show business

Press and Journal – A support service which helps open the gateway for local musicians to turn their dreams into reality is sponsoring this year’s Blas music festival, which kicks off today. Business Gateway, which provides practical help, advice and support for new and growing businesses throughout Scotland, is helping local performers make a business [...]

£14m debt raises fresh fears over Lossie park

Press and Journal – The owner of a Moray caravan park at the centre of a fraud investigation went into administration with debts of £14million, it was revealed last night. The extent of how far into the red the operator of the Silver Sands site at Lossiemouth had plunged has sparked fresh fears that people [...]

Couple who split after son’s cancer death to marry again

Press and Journal – A Moray couple who were driven apart by the heartbreak of losing their four-year-old son to cancer will remarry tomorrow – 21 years after their first wedding. Angela and John Bruce, of Robertson Drive, Elgin, separated in 2004, unable to come to terms with their son’s death, but have decided that [...]

Agencies will meet residents of flood-hit communities

Press and Journal – Political leaders, residents and landowners will meet next month to explain how they intend to tackle a flooding crisis affecting two Moray communities. Homes and businesses at Garmouth were flooded last autumn and winter when the banks of the River Spey burst, spewing water down the main street. A Moray Council [...]

RAF Kinloss opens rehab centre

Press and Journal – The station commander of RAF Kinloss unveiled yesterday a purpose-built rehabilitation centre with £100,000 of equipment, saying that the base was “putting people first, irrespective of where we find ourselves”. A large, portable building has been turned into a rehab facility to treat the injuries of Kinloss service personnel. Until now, [...]

Plea for more to join Help for Heroes event

Press and Journal – A Moray community group is calling for thousands more people to sign up for an event to help servicemen and women wounded in war. Elgin Rotary Club wants between 5,000 and 6,000 people to take part in Holding Hands for Heroes, and link up across a 4.6-mile route from Elgin Town [...]

Moray children’s ward ‘safe from closure’ despite cuts

Press and Journal – NHS Grampian has insisted it will not close a Moray children’s ward which has been at the centre of controversy. A leading paediatrician last week criticised the health board for cutting the number of beds in the paediatrics unit at Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin from 13 to eight. Dr Willem [...]

Street markets charging plan

Press and Journal – Councillors will meet this week to decide whether Moray groups should be charged for holding markets in the main towns and villages. A report by the local authority’s director of environmental services recommends that a charging policy should be introduced for events at Elgin Plainstones, Cluny Square at Buckie, Leys Road [...]

Spotlight on Moray Firth tourists

Press and Journal – The likes and dislikes of holidaymakers on the Moray Firth coast are due to come under the spotlight. The first in-depth look at responses from holidaymakers to a tourism group survey will take place in a few weeks. The Banffshire Coast tourism partnership launched the survey in June to capture the [...]

Moray councillor claims sexism ‘rife’

Press and Journal – A councillor claimed last night that sexism is “rife” throughout Moray Council – days after a female colleague resigned from the now all-male administration. Independent councillor for Speyside Glenlivet Fiona Murdoch claimed she was treated “like a lower life-form” when part of the Conservative-independent administration. She quit the ruling body in [...]

Tillicoultry man killed in north-east van crash named

STV – A man who died in a van crash near Rothes early on Saturday morning has been named as 38-year-old William Dawson, from Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire. Mr Dawson was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, on the A941 Elgin to Rothes road at Drumbain layby. He was driving a white Ford Transit when [...]

Two drivers die in two separate car crashes

BBC – Two people have died in two separate crashes in the Grampian area, it has been confirmed. A transit van driver was killed and his two passengers were injured following an accident on the A941 Elgin to Rothes Road just after midnight. The road was closed for seven hours while investigations were carried out.

Fears that building school may affect homes

Press and Journal – A Moray community group is meeting next week to discuss concerns that the construction of a school could cause damage to neighbouring properties. North-east contractor Stewart Milne started building the new Elgin Academy at Morriston Road in late June. It is part of a £40million project which will also involve a [...]

Bad drivers targeted by new patrols

Northern Scot – FIVE people have been caught in the initial phase of a police operation to crack down on anti-social motorists. All have been reported to the procurator fiscal for dangerous or careless driving and could now face disqualification. The operation, which was carried out in the Keith area, involves officers from the road [...]

What price a son’s life?

Northern Scot – A GRIEVING mother has branded her ex-husband a coward for not appearing in court for safety failures leading to the death of her 13-year-old son. Sasha Irvine called the £13,000 fine imposed on John Irvine and Son, Inverlochy Farm, Tomintoul, of which her former husband, Raymond Irvine, is a partner, disappointing. Austin [...]

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