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Updated: May 13, 2021, 10:26 am © Jason Hedges/DCT Media Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Residents in Moray can snap up a last-minute appointment to get their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine today. NHS Grampian has announced it has availability to run walk-in Covid-19 vaccine sessions today.

By Dave Finlay © SYSTEM Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A man who raped a drunk teenager in Aberdeen was jailed for three and a half years on Thursday for his “opportunistic” crime. Philip Milne (45) assaulted his victim after she had lost her phone, handbag and keys following a night out. A judge told Milne at the High Court in Edinburgh that he had committed “a serious sexual assault on an...

Dundee businessman’s double Covid tragedy as both parents die an hour apart Updated: May 13, 2021, 11:45 am © Supplied by Carling family A prominent Dundee businessman has recalled the evening both his parents died from coronavirus within the space of an hour. Graeme Carling, who purchased McGill in 2019, lost his parents Graeme and Margaret in separate Dundee hospitals in the same evening. Mrs Carling, 65, was diagnosed with Covid-19 just after Christmas. In early January she was given jus...

Updated: May 13, 2021, 1:44 pm © Werner Forman Archive/Shuttersto Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A search has begun to find copies of George Mackay Brown’s first collection of poems. The George Mackay Brown Fellowship is working alongside BBC Radio Orkney to track down copies to celebrate the centenary of the poet’s birth this October. The Orcadian writer published 300 copies of his first book, The...

Puppy love: The Dundee dog making a paw-sitive impact after ruff year on mental health © Supplied by Monifieth High Schoo It has been a difficult year for school pupils across Tayside as they adjust between home schooling and being back in the classroom. One local school is using pet therapy to help ease the transition for pupils and staff alike. During what has been a turbulent and disruptive year for school pupils across the country, at Monifieth High School, pupils and staff have been takin...

Hopes popular Aberdeenshire coastal path shut due to safety fears will reopen in time for summer Updated: 13/05/2021, 5:36 pm © Supplied by Aberdeenshire Counci Hopes have been raised that a popular Aberdeenshire coastal walk could be reopened in time for the summer. This is due to safety fears about large sections of rocks above the path which are under threat of falling. It is a popular route for local people and tourists when they visit the north-east as it provides stunning views of the co...

© Supplied by Aberdeenshire Counci Aberdeenshire Council has urged the public to avoid “light-hearted banter” with its road crews as they carry out a major programme of pothole repairs. As a result of the pandemic last year, the council’s roads maintenance programme was suspended as frontline staff were instead redeployed to assist in more crucial services like household waste collections and burials. Although the local authority dealt with all road defects that posed an immediate danger...

© Supplied by Kierans Legacy 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 A north-est youngster has been handed a defibrillator to keep her community safe after her crusade struck a chord with the mum of tragic teenager Keiran McKandie. Upon finding out that the nearest resuscitation device to Crudie was located in the next town o...

Updated: May 13, 2021, 4:15 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 Moray, Aberdeen, and Aberdeenshire all recorded two cases in the past 24 hours. No new cases were recorded in Orkney and Shetland One new case was registered in the Western Isles for the first time since March 22, with two being recorded in the NHS Highland region. In total, 270 cases were registered across Scotland,...

© ANL/Shutterstock Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The voice on Amazon’s number one song playing in my kitchen was familiar, like a voice you knew once but had changed, grown deeper with the years and the nicotine. “For worse or for better, we’ll always remember the tears and goodbye.” I certainly remember his tears – Mr Bay City Roller. Les McKeown wept in an Edinburgh hotel over double bourb...