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© Paul Glendell/DCT Media Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Hairdressers and barbers in the north-east were eager to finally get back to “what they love doing most” after three months of lockdown. Businesses re-opened their doors for customers yesterday as the country took its first steps into easing restrictions ac...

© Chris Sumner/DCT Media Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Two college libraries in the north and north-east have been awarded a total of nearly £9,000 to combat the impact of Covid-19. North East College in Aberdeen and Lews Castle College in Stornoway are among the four projects in Scotland to receive grants from the...

© Chris Sumner/ DCT Media Fraserburgh Resilience Group volunteers (L-R): Karen Forsyth, Alison West, John Anderson and Bob Watt at the new community larder. Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The doors to a new north-east community larder are being flung open today to offer a “top-up” style food shopping option for t...

© Chris Sumner/DCT Media Donald Fraser, 21, with six-year-old Harris Morrison, chemotherapy practitioner Dorothy Farquharson and clinical nurse specialist oncology Karyn Ramsay. Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A keen young runner has handed over a £10,000 cheque to the north-east hospital staff caring for his sick si...

Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up New study findings show the size of the working population across Aberdeen city and shire has shrunk by 9% – meaning 21,500 fewer jobs – over the past five years. Using data from the Fraser of Allander Institute, Just Transition Commission, Office for National Statistics and Scottish Government, the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) has highlighted a...

Aberdeen City Council planning chiefs have given the development the green light. The local authority and Telereal Trillium have reached a legal agreement to allow the project to proceed. © Chris Sumner/DCT Media The building was demolished last year. A report by the council’s planning service said: “The proposed development would deliver additional housing in the city centre, which would comply with the vision of the City Centre Masterplan and thus, by default, with the Aberdeen Local Dev...

Community buys ancient north-east woodland from estate © Supplied by Braemar Community Li Tomrichton Wood has 150-year-old pine trees and is a haven for wildlife. A north-east community has taken ownership of an ancient beauty spot. The village of Braemar owns Tomrichton Wood, which had been part of the Mar Estate for 300 years. It is thought the popular woodland is a likely remnant of the great wood of Caledon. Tomrichton Wood is made up of statuesque granny pine trees, over 150 years old and...

April is a huge month for Scotland, as strict lockdown restrictions will be eased, leading to a "glimmer of hope" that we are returning slowly to normality.

NHS Grampian covers the local authority areas of Aberdeenshire and Moray as well as Aberdeen City. Moray has the highest rate of vaccination, with more than 50% of its population having had their first dose. The figure for Aberdeenshire is almost 48%, while in the city it is just below 40%. Vaccinations are currently being carried out at a rate of more than 27,000 per week in the north-east. In the report, which was due to be presented to board members at a meeting this morning, NHS Grampian sa...

Call for north-east to be fast-tracked out of lockdown Updated: 17/03/2021, 4:25 pm © Chris Sumner/DCT Media Aberdeen is currently under Covid-19 restrictions - but the route out of lockdown has been revealed. The north-east’s route out of lockdown has been welcomed – but calls have been made to speed up the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions due to low case numbers. Business and hospitality leaders, sports organisations and hairdressers have spoke of their joy after the exit plan was unveil...