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by Angus Peter Campbell © Shutterstock / Simone Tomazela Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Joining the Merchant Navy was one of the great job opportunities when I was growing up. I can hardly think of a household that didn’t have a few sons sailing the high seas, returning home with wonderful stories about far off places such as Rio de Janeiro and Bahia Blanca. And so we immediately got out the at...

© Alan Richardson Pix-AR.co.uk North-east Labour MSP Jenny Marra says part of her “felt guilty” for choosing not to stand in May’s Holyrood elections to focus on her family. The politician and mum-of-two, who was first elected in 2011, claims her decision was “brought to a head” after giving birth to her second son a week into the first coronavirus lockdown. Although she has “not for one moment” regretted her decision not to seek re-election, she admits part of her felt “guilty...

© DC Thomson & Co. Ltd. Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A predatory dark web Angus paedophile has been given a seven-month sentence for breaching a court order imposed over a previous indecent images offence. John Johnstone appeared by video link at Forfar Sheriff Court from Perth prison, where he is currently serving a 40-month jail term. Johnstone, 43, previously admitted breaching a community payback orde...

© PA Archive/Press Association Ima 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 Police are appealing for witnesses after a motorist completed a “very dangerous overtake” and narrowly avoided a collision. The incident happened on the B862 Inverness to Dores road near Borlum Farm, Scaniport, on January 14 at 4.30pm. Officers sai...

James Millar: Boris Johnson’s days at No 10 numbered by James Millar © David Fisher/Shutterstock Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Politics is a numbers game. And that’s why there is next to no chance that Boris Johnson will be prime minister after the next election. It may seem some way off. But in this time of such great uncertainty, it’s nice to know one thing is nailed on. The numbers that...

© Kris Miller Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Police are urging people to secure their homes following a spate of thefts and acquisitive crimes across the north-east. There were incidents in Aberdeen, Ellon, Newburgh and Cruden Bay on Sunday and Monday. A 19-year-old has since been charged and appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday. Local officers, the roads policing unit and other specialist reso...

Updated: January 28, 2021, 9:22 am © Supplied by Neil Cameron An offshore worker from Lochee has wowed friends and family by creating his very own ‘Love Island’ paradise in his back garden. The spectacular transformation, which features a garden pub fit for post-lockdown get-togethers, a lowered hot tub and a pool table, took 10 months to complete. The irony is Neil Cameron has never watched Love Island. He said: “Everyone keeps saying that it is like something from Love Island but I hav...

© Supplied Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up NHS Highland has apologised for not anticipating problems which have affected payments to victims of bullying. It emerged recently that settlement pay-outs under the health board’s Healing Process are made through the payroll and subject to tax and national insurance. It has led to significant reductions to money received by staff subjected to bullying, with ...

A horrified neighbour witnessed four men becoming embroiled in a disturbance in which another man was "dragged from a block and beaten".

The death of a crewman, who was crushed while repairing paintwork on a ship anchored off Aberdeen, is to be probed by a sheriff.