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© Shutterstock Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An uninhabited remote Scottish island that spans 11 acres has been sold for four times more than its £80,000 asking price. Sitting in the middle of the beautiful Loch Moidart in the west Highlands, Deer Island was on offer for less than a one-bedroom flat in Inverness or Aberdeen. The price tag left many potential buyers stunned as for the same amount of m...

© Met Office Temperatures are forecasted to drop tonight as an arctic plunge hits the north-east. The Met Office has issued several weather warnings for the north of Scotland. Here is a breakdown of what has been forecasted – and when they come into force. Sunday, April 4: 6pm Highlands, Moray, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Snowy conditions are expected to hit the north and north-east later this evening, which may lead to travel disruption. The yellow alerts states: “A very cold northerly air...

Anti-depressant use at all-time high in Tayside as pandemic hurts mental health Updated: April 3, 2021, 10:36 am © Shutterstock / panitanphoto Anti-depressant prescriptions have hit the highest level ever recorded in Tayside as a year of restrictions leaves many struggling to cope. The total prescribed for all of 2020 has risen 3% year-on-year and in December — the most recent month available — 52,653 were written. It amounts to a 10% rise compared to the same month in 2019 and is by far t...

A man has died suddenly at a property in Aberdeen. Police were called out to Springhill Road in Mastrick in the early hours of Friday morning.

GINGER GAIRDNER: A rainbow of hope to lift our spirits by Brian Cunningham © Supplied by DCT Media A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be asked to support an initiative led by Scottish growers of plants, on behalf of the whole of Scotland’s horticultural industry. One year on from when reality dawned on the affect this virus was going to have on us all, a 20m long floral rainbow of hope featuring 12,000 primulas was created on the historic Mound of Edinburgh’s Old Town, as part ...

© Supplied by Gareth Jennings Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An 81-year-old man has been taken to hospital after he was cut out his car following a crash just outside Dundee on Saturday. The incident happened just beside Starr Inn Farm, close to Arbuckle’s Farm Shop and the polytunnels, around 11am and multiple emergency vehicles attended at the scene. The car had been heading towards Dundee at the time, ...

© Supplied by Courier artist I grew up in Montrose.  A favourite childhood walk, in easy walking distance of home, was to the Curlie. As its name suggests it was an outdoor curling pond in the days before the introduction of indoor curling. The long-defunct Montrose Curling Club originally played on the Mary Loch, at Little Mill on the outskirts of the town, on the Brechin road.  The Mary Loch was drained in the 1920s and there is no trace of it now. © Kim Cessford Indoor curling is the nor...

ROAD TEST: Hybrid Skoda Octavia perfect blend of old and new tech Spacious, comfortable, refined, fairly reliable, relatively inexpensive…the list goes on. There’s a good reason why in any taxi rank at least five out of 10 cars are Octavias. Taxi drivers are shrewd operators and know a good car when they see one. The fourth generation of the car was launched in 2020 and, as is becoming the norm these days, is available with electrified power. The hybrid Octavia starts at just over £30,000 ...

Talented globetrotting artist and caricaturist Peter ‘Pedro’ Brock was inspired by the genius of Dudley D Watkins © Supplied by Peter Brock As a child growing up in Crieff Peter ‘Pedro’ Brock loved poring over the cartoons in the Weekly News. “I would study them all, and on a Sunday, I’d grab the Sunday Post fun section for Oor Wullie and The Broons. It was the Dudley D Watkins illustrations that would inspire me to draw,” Peter, who was nicknamed Pedro at school, recalls. “At ...

Brunch Box: This hot crossed bacon and egg breakfast bun is perfect for Easter Sunday © Supplied Looking for something to liven up your Easter weekend? Well, this recipe using leftover hot cross buns might just be the thing. Who knew there were so many other things you could do with hot cross buns than just eat them as they are? Not us. But as it’s Easter weekend we thought we’d seek out some options to help us make the most of it. One of the recipes we stumbled upon is this one from Briti...