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© SYSTEM Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Members of the public have been praised by the coastguard after a paddleboarder required rescue from the River Don this afternoon. Aberdeen Coastguard Operations Centre received a 999 call at 3.51pm, tasking the inshore lifeboat and the local coastguard team one minute later. The lifeboat launched and within minutes had recovered the female paddleboarder from the...

The Safer Schools App for Perth and Kinross Council focuses on support for children and their families dealing with sexting, bullying, mental health, gaming and sexual exploitation.

© Mark Ferguson A Fife racing circuit boss has said grant cash to support spectator sports through lockdown will protect jobs. Knockhill Racing Circuit’s managing director Jilian Sheddan, who oversees operations at the world-renowned Fife track, said its £330,000 share of £55 million Scottish Government emergency funding will be vital in terms of saving jobs and also helping the business prepare properly for the future in light of severe disruption this past year. All 46 event days due to ...

© Staff On this day 58 years ago there were 40,000 spectators squeezed inside Dens Park as Bob Shankly’s Dundee booked their place in the European Cup semi-finals. The opponents were an Anderlecht side who had already seen off the mighty Real Madrid but had been humbled at Heisel by a rampant Dark Blues. Real had been in six of seven finals to that point, winning five, and still boasted the likes of Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas. Beating them had elevated the Belgians to the status of...

Domestic abuse cases in Grampian will now be prioritised at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, with the vast majority to be conducted virtually.

Politicians talk the talk but don’t deliver Sir, – Not surprisingly, John Swinney “survived” the vote of no confidence because he has done absolutely nothing wrong. The hypocritical Scottish Tories manufactured the vote, knowing it would fail, as a political gesture. The other two Unionist parties jumped on board in a pathetic show of solidarity. It baffles me as to why both Labour and the Lib Dems always support the Tories, both in Holyrood and in Westminster, despite the record of Bor...

Fifers being urged to take part in physical activity survey © PRESS AND JOURNAL Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up People across Fife are being urged to share details of how they get active, how often and where, in a survey to help shape the future of sports and leisure provision across the region. Leading provider of sports and leisure services, charitable trust Fife Sports and Leisure Trust, is working with F...

Two seriously injured in two-car crash which shut A90 near Ellon overnight Updated: March 12, 2021, 12:11 pm © NEWSLINE MEDIA LIMITED Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A man and woman have been seriously injured in a two-car crash that shut a section of a major road overnight. Emergency services were called to the A90 Aberdeen to Ellon road, at its junction with the B9000 near Tipperty, at about 10.20pm. ...

© Crown Prosecution Service Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The north-east skipper of a fishing vessel has been jailed for a year following the deaths of three men. David Marr, 53, from Peterhead, has been found guilty of failing to keep a proper lookout off the coast of Shoreham, West Sussex on August 6 2017. It emerged he had been using a computer and speaking to a friend via the WhatsApp messaging se...

Updated: March 12, 2021, 5:39 pm © Jason Hedges/DCT Media Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A number of pupils at a north-east primary school have been asked to self-isolate after “several” Covid cases were detected. Parents at Portsoy School have expressed concerns ahead of the P4-P7 pupils returning on Monday. One claimed they had not been informed of the extent of the outbreak, or when pupils or te...