Funeral for Scots soldier shot in Afghanistan

STV – The funeral of a Scottish soldier shot dead in southern Afghanistan is being held. Corporal Michael Pike, 26, from Huntly, Aberdeenshire, died earlier this month after insurgents armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades attacked his patrol in the Lashkar Gah District of Helmand Province. His colleagues, from 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment [...]

Body of soldier who died in Afghanistan to be brought back to UK

STV – The body of a Scottish soldier who was killed by insurgents in Afghanistan is to be brought back to the UK. Corporal Michael Pike, 26, from Huntly in Aberdeenshire, died after insurgents armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades attacked his patrol in the Lashkar Gah District of Helmand Province on Friday. The [...]

‘Perfect’ Highland soldier killed on patrol in Afghanistan is named

BBC – Father-of-two Corporal Michael John Pike, 26, of 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, died on Friday. His commanding officer described him as “the perfect example of a Highland soldier- loyal and fiercely courageous”. The death of Cpl Pike, who was from Huntly, Aberdeenshire, brings the number of UK MoD deaths in operations [...]

Mother attacked head teacher at primary school

STV – A mother who attacked a head teacher, school worker and a parent at a primary school has been ordered to attend anger management classes. Karen Matthew assaulted the three women and caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage when she lashed out at Lumsden Primary School in Aberdeenshire earlier this year. A sheriff [...]

Family’s plea for safe return of oil worker

Press and Journal – The family of a north-east oil worker trapped in crisis-hit Libya pleaded for his safe return last night – and criticised the “shambolic” evacuation plans. Lee Hutchison said his 50-year-old father Billy was stranded at a desert camp near Tripoli last night, after waiting for a rescue plane that never arrived. [...]

Special constable in handcuffs sex trial

Press and Journal – A special constable has gone on trial accused of handcuffing a woman to a bed and taking indecent photographs of her in Aberdeenshire. Graeme Duguid denies grabbing the woman, using handcuffs to fix her hand to the bed and taking photographs of her while she was naked. The 43-year-old was a [...]

Huntly man victim of fitted kitchen fraud

Press and Journal – A woman who defrauded an Aberdeenshire man out of nearly £4,000 by pretending to sell him a fitted kitchen has been ordered to pay the money back. William Kisby was promised a cut-price fitted kitchen by Laura D’Silva but never heard from her again after he had parted with £3,900, Aberdeen [...]

Man injured after roof fall

BBC – A man has been airlifted to hospital with a serious head injury after falling from the roof of a building at an Aberdeenshire farm. The accident happened in Drumblade near Huntly at about 1630 GMT on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said the man had sustained a “significant” head injury

Road rap cop’s lies to dodge charges

Scottish Sun – A SHAMED cop was caught driving without insurance – then lied to his police colleagues in a bid to escape being prosecuted. Conor Summersgill, 20, was stopped by officers while at the wheel near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, after his policy had run out last June. But he lied to a constable at Keith [...]

Plea to save cross-country ski centre from closure

Press and Journal – Councillors were under intense pressure last night to throw out proposals that critics fear could lead to the closure of the UK’s only all-purpose cross-country ski centre in Aberdeenshire. Governing bodies British Ski and Snowboard, Snowsport Scotland, Conservative MSP Nanette Milne and the secretary of a north-east ski club have urged [...]

Man desperate for reunion with pregnant Turkish wife

STV – An Aberdeenshire man is fighting to get his Turkish wife into Scotland after authorities said their relationship was not genuine. Bruce McWilliam from Huntly married Canan Karakurt, 23, from Turkey, six months ago but was devastated when her visa application was rejected. Now the 41-year-old baker is desperately trying to speed up the [...]

Volunteers sought for protection group

Press and Journal – A NORTH-EAST woman has started up a group to help people living in her town prepare for future flooding. Fiona Watson’s house was extensively damaged during the flooding last year at Huntly. She has now set up a group which also aims to help people help themselves, as well as come [...]

Crash victim dedicated her life to helping children

Scotsman – A RETIRED nurse who dedicated her life to helping terminally ill children died after a three-car pile-up in the snow. Andrewina Tait, of Inverness, who was in her sixties, was driving along the A96 Huntly to Inverness road when the tragedy happened on Thursday. She was travelling north in a dark Nissan Note [...]

Woman dies and schools closed as snow returns

BBC – A woman has died and several other people have been injured in road accidents as winter conditions returned. The dead woman was among four people involved in a three-vehicle crash on the A96 near Huntly at about 1100 GMT. A man was also taken to hospital after a car flipped onto its roof [...]

Huntly wind farm plans approved

BBC – Planning permission for an 18-turbine wind farm development in Clashindarroch Forest near Huntly has been granted by Aberdeenshire Council. The local authority’s Marr Area Committee backed developer Vattenfall’s plans. The project had received the support of 280 local people.

Butcher carves out success with top award

Press and Journal – A YOUNG north-east butcher has been crowned the best in Britain. Gary Raeburn, who works at family-run Forbes Raeburn and Sons in Huntly, collected the Meat Trades Journal Young Butcher of the Year award at a ceremony in London earlier this week. The 24-year-old is no stranger to success, having twice [...]

Teen charged over death of passenger

Press and Journal – A teenage motorist has been charged with causing the death of an Aberdeenshire schoolboy by dangerous driving. Josh Wilkie died when the car he was travelling in was involved in a collision with another vehicle on the A96 Huntly to Keith road on January 5 last year. The 16-year-old, a pupil [...]

Factory workers in the pink

Press and Journal – STAFF at an award-winning Aberdeenshire shortbread factory set aside their usual production line gear yesterday to Wear It Pink at the end of a year of fundraising for a breast cancer charity. The team at Dean’s of Huntly sported sponsored hats instead of their usual white and blue headgear to take [...]

Motorist, 53, to go on trial accused of causing fatal crash

Press and Journal – A Highland motorist accused of causing the death of a passenger by driving carelessly will go on trial next year. Oil worker Alan Charles-worth, 55, was killed when the car he was travelling in spun across the A96 Inverness to Aberdeen road and crashed into a vehicle going in the other [...]

Man dies in north-east crash

A man has died and a woman seriously injured in a crash involving two vehicles at around 4.30pm today (Wednesday 13 October) on the A96 Huntly to Inverurie Road, about half a mile south of the junction with the A97 Aberchirder Road.
The woman was flown to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary by helicopter and the road was [...]

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