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© 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 Michael Strachan was just five when he joined the Boys Brigade – and almost 30 years later he has written the book on it. It was 1993 when Mr Strachan became part of the Fraserburgh branch, following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great-grandf...

Updated: March 2, 2021, 7:41 pm © Supplied by Robbie Bushe 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 During a childhood spent in rural Aberdeenshire and raised by parents invested in the arts, Robbie Bushe dreamt of becoming a comic book illustrator. Now almost four decades later, the established and award-winning artist is in ...

© Chris Sumner/DCT Media Mowat Court care home in Stonehaven has been rated "adequate" by the Care Inspectorate for its level of care during the pandemic. 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 An award-winning Stonehaven care home branded “weak” by a watchdog has already made the changes ordered by inspectors. Mowat Cou...

During a childhood spent in rural Aberdeenshire and raised by parents invested in the arts, Robbie Bushe dreamt of becoming a comic book illustrator.

North-east newsagent thrives after sisters take on business Updated: 20/02/2021, 4:47 pm © Chris Sumner/DCT Media From left, Teresa Broere and Leanne Duncan, known as The Paper Girls A north-east newsagent taken over by two sisters from the local area has been thriving under their ownership. Teresa Broere and Leanne Duncan, also known as The Paper Girls in their local community, bought the small newsagent on Charleston Road in Aboyne after being furloughed last summer. The siblings, who were b...

Updated: 19/02/2021, 8:38 pm © Chris Sumner/DCT Media Mowat Court care home in Stonehaven. A north-east care home ordered to improve its Covid-19 care has met recommendations made by a watchdog. Officials from the Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland visited Mowat Court in Stonehaven on February 1.

© 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 Roads bosses at Moray Council have admitted they are “quite surprised” the condition of the region’s routes has improved. Councillors voted to reduce spending on maintaining roads in 2014 at a time when they were among the best in Scotland, amid assuranc...

© Chris Sumner/DCT Media Liam Kerr MSP at the junction between the road to Drumlithie and the A90 Stonehaven to Dundee road. 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 New safety measures will be installed at a busy A90 junction near Drumlithie almost two years on from a crash that left three dead. On March 12, 2019, a collision...

NHS Grampian has been told to make improvements following the “unreasonable” delay to diagnosis for a patient with bladder cancer.

Video: New tourism campaign launched to encourage people to visit north-east after Covid restrictions lifted 16/02/2021, 12:10 pm A new tourism campaign has been launched to encourage people to visit the north-east region after coronavirus restrictions are relaxed. VisitAberdeenshire launched the ‘Our Aberdeen is Your Aberdeen’ initiative this week to promote the city to potential visitors from other places in Scotland and from the north of England. Local residents, as well as Lord Provost...