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© Supplied by Courier artist Many years ago I bought a small unsigned oil painting of storm-driven waves crashing onto rocks at the foot of high cliffs. The cliffs were the Bullers of Buchan, a spectacular natural arch projecting out into the sea, and what is known locally as the Cauldron or The Pot into which the sea churns and boils in wild weather. Ever since I bought that wee painting I’d promised myself I’d take a trip up there and walk to the Bullers to see just how impressive they a...

Updated: 21/12/2020, 7:06 am The twinkling Christmas lights of Union Street in 1981. Christmas in Aberdeen is a time for… schoolboy riots, murder and blood sacrifice. These are just some of the astonishing incidents that have happened in the north-east around Yuletide, set to be revealed in a festive talk by local historian Dr Fiona-Jane Brown, of Hidden Aberdeen Tours. The fascinating stories, ranging from how Santa Claus, well St Nicholas, became Aberdeen’s patron saint, to the Christmas ...