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Updated: December 30, 2020, 11:16 am © EVENING EXPRESS 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 Aberdeen City Council is among 10 finalists for an award recognising projects that responded to the Covid-19 crisis – putting them alongside vaccine researchers and NHS volunteers. The local authority’s Remote, Secure Collaborat...

Police keen to educate, not punish, to encourage safer driving in north-east © Chris Sumner/DCT Media PC Phil Cameron doing speed checks with a speed gun on the A96 north of Huntly. Police are keen to educate, rather than punish, north-east motorists in a bid to encourage safe and responsible driving. North-east roads policing officer Phil Cameron spoke to the Evening Express, as part of its road safety series, about the kind of work carried out on a day-to-day basis and the attitudes of drive...

© Sandy McCook/ 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 Tourist hotspots are being forced to contend with wild complaints from visitors – with one saying they would “rather be in hell” than on Balmedie Beach, and another slamming the lack of a Loch Ness marina. While many venues in the north receive praise fro...

Service users of Aberdeen homelessness charity thank volunteers for support in 2020 © Chris Sumner/DCT Media Members of staff from Aberdeen Cyrenians. The service users of an Aberdeen homelessness charity have thanked the organisation for their support during the Covid-19 pandemic. Aberdeen Cyrenians offers a helping hand to anyone experiencing homelessness or at risk of losing their home through poverty, crisis, abuse, mental ill-health or addiction. One man, known only as Paul, lost his j...

Voting now open for Aberdeen City Council Covid-19 award © Chris Sumner/ DCT Media Public voting has opened for PMIs Special Covid-19 UK Response Project Award, which Aberdeen City Council is nominated for. Voting is now open for the UK’s best Covid-19 response project – which Aberdeen City Council has been shortlisted for. The local authority is the only Scottish organisation to be shortlisted for the Project Management Institute (PMI) UK National Project Award. Aberdeen City Council was ...

Calls for Aberdeen parking charges to be scrapped in Level 4 restrictions © Chris Sumner / DCT Media Councillor Alex McLellan is calling for Aberdeen parking charges to be scrapped during the tougher restrictions after Christmas. 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 Aberdeen City Council is being pressed to do away with al...

© 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 NHS Grampian has apologised after it emerged ambulances transferring emergency patients are being forced to wait outside hospitals for hours. Health staff across the north-east have been struggling to cope with rising Covid-19 cases in recent weeks with more t...

Updated: 21/12/2020, 6:13 pm © Darrell Benns / DCT MEDIA Union Street, Aberdeen. North-east hospitality businesses have spoken of their disappointment and fears for the future over the looming level four restrictions. Calls for more support for the troubled hospitality sector, as well as retail have been made. Non-essential shops, pubs and restaurants will have to shut except for takeaways, drive-throughs and deliveries. Only essential travel will be permitted. The news follows confirmation fr...

Aberdeen alcohol and drug recovery charities urge people to stay safe over festive season © DCT Media/Chris Sumner Simon Pringle. Two Aberdeen charities supporting people with drug and alcohol problems have issued advice on staying safe during the festive season. In a joint message, they said: “We are certainly not in the business of telling others what to do nor do we make judgements on their behaviour. “This is not what we are about and if we were to do so we would be going against the r...

Police hunting man who set two cars ablaze on Aberdeen street by James Wyllie Updated: 18/12/2020, 6:31 pm © Chris Sumner/DCT Media Marquis Road Police are hunting a man who torched two cars parked on an Aberdeen street in a late-night fire attack. A blue Kia Rio and blue Vauxhall Zafira were set ablaze around 11pm on Wednesday evening while their owners remained indoors, just feet away, on Marquis Road in Woodside. No-one was injured and officers are now searching for the culprit. The i...