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© Shutterstock / Bestravelvideo Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up FirstGroup has agreed to pay another £6 million to escape its TransPennine Express (TPE) rail contract obligations. Shares in the Aberdeen-based transport operator nudged up 0.75% to 74p today (May 11) after it announced a termination fee deal with the Department for Transport (DfT). A condition of emergency recovery measures agreements (E...

Cruise ship passengers could be taken on tours of north farms as sector bounces back © Supplied by Highland Tourism Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Highland tourism companies are thinking outside of the box to cater for cruise ship passengers, with trips to farms among plans to lure visitors back to the north. Travellers are looking for something different as the industry recovers from the pandemic, Inv...

Flood warning issued for Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire as heavy rain set to hit Updated: May 11, 2021, 5:14 pm © SEPA Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A flood alert has been issued by Sepa for Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City. It comes into effect later on tonight and into Wednesday morning. The alert added: “There is a risk localised flooding of low lying land and roads, and disruption to travel, from sma...

© DCT Media Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A mystery Samaritan has been hailed as “wonderfully generous” for donating a disused office building to a north-east children’s charity. AberNecessities, which offers lifeline support to disadvantaged families in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, has recently received the “incredible” donation, which will serve as the charity’s new headquarters. The kind...

Grantown Covid cases: Health chief says no cause for anxiety despite variant being detected © Supplied by NHS Highland Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An investigation into a cluster of Covid cases in Grantown is no cause for anxiety, according to a health boss. NHS Highland is making more testing available with the cluster having been identified as a variant under investigation (VUI). The number of var...

Scott Begbie: Festival will bring soul back to the city centre © DCT Media There is a real art to creating a vibrant city centre… and real art is at the heart of it. So you can imagine my delight on hearing Nuart is returning to the Granite City next month. Not next year, not at some date in the future, but in just a matter of weeks. Now, that has to be one of the best bits of news we’ve had since we started this oh so slow process of coming out from the long grind of lockdown. It means we...

Scottish SPCA hopes partial reopening of Aberdeenshire centre will help find forever home for Kilo Updated: 10/05/2021, 3:36 pm © Supplied by Scottish SPCA A north-east animal rehoming centre is preparing to partially reopen of the first time in more than a year. The Scottish SPCA will open its Drumoak centre has been shut to the public since last March, and rehoming has fallen by around 30%. Now the team is hoping to make it easier for some of its long-term residents, like American bulldog Ki...

Man suffers serious leg injury after being involved in crash at Dundee car meet Updated: May 11, 2021, 12:04 pm © Supplied by Supplied A man in his 20s was taken to hospital after being involved in a crash at a car meet in Dundee. The incident happened within the Kingsway West Retail Park on Sunday evening, shortly before 10.30pm. Police Scotland have confirmed a 22-year-old male had suffered a serious leg injury after the collision within the retail park, near to Halfords. Paramedics were in ...

Recovery plans for Highland cruise ship industry to be revealed © Supplied by Highland Tourism Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up It is one of the industries that has been hit the hardest by Covid-19. But now recovery plans for the Highland cruise ship business will be unveiled at an online event. Highland Tourism is hosting Tuesday’s talk in partnership with the Port of Cromarty Firth. The cruise busine...

Dundee have given themselves a serious advantage in play-off promotion push says former frontman Simon Murray © SNS Group Former Dundee striker Simon Murray says the Dark Blues have given themselves a serious advantage in their promotion play-off push. By finishing second, the Dens Park club lightened their load from a potential six matches to four. And in doing so they’ll avoid burn-out says Murray, now plying his trade for League Two champions Queen’s Park. He knows that only too well, h...