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Updated: May 11, 2021, 12:04 pm © Lynn Mcmahon/Faceboo A Dundee woman has appealed for information after cars on her street were repeatedly vandalised. Lynn McMahon shared CCTV stills on Facebook showing a man walking three dogs late at night past her home. She said she believes the man in the CCTV is responsible for scratching her car at least 40 times in the last six months. Lynn explained that as well as her own car, the man had also damaged vehicles belonging to others who live with her. O...

Updated: May 10, 2021, 8:06 pm © PRESS AND JOURNAL 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 Tributes have poured in to an inspirational Aberdeen dad who spoke openly about his mental health in an effort to encourage others to do likewise. Bradley Allan was known to many in the north-east as the “Anxiety Bloke” after he lau...

James McPake says getting Dundee back to the Premiership would be greatest achievement of his career © SNS Group Dundee boss James McPake. James McPake says guiding Dundee back to the Premiership would be the biggest achievement of his career as he prepares his side for this week’s play-off with Raith Rovers. The Dark Blues afforded themselves a break from action by pipping the Kirkcaldy side to second place. That leaves two matches this week and a potential double-header against the Premier...

Vote for your favourite script to help budding north playwrights see dreams come true Updated: May 10, 2021, 12:44 pm © Supplied by The Grey Hill / Yout The finalist scripts were performed and recorded remotely 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 Five budding playwrights are competing to have their work turned into a show...

Updated: May 10, 2021, 11:31 am © EVENING EXPRESS 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 globally acclaimed street art festival will make its long-awaited return to Aberdeen next month. Organisers have revealed the festival, which brings thousands of people from across the north-east to the Granite City, will run throughou...

Sentencing delay for Aberdeen student who dragged woman off street and raped her Updated: May 10, 2021, 6:39 pm © SYSTEM Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A university student who snatched a lone woman off the street and subjected her to a terrifying rape ordeal will have to wait to learn his fate. Callum Duncan, 23, was due to have been sentenced for the crime and other sex offences today but the case wa...

Jim Sturrock. Jim Sturrock, 72, took over in the late 1970s and has passed the business to his daughter Wendy, who also opened the neighbouring Room 39 Boutique in 2015. Jim’s granddaughter Connie runs the adjacent hair salon at Room 39. “It’s a great area to live in and it’s the people who make it,” says Jim, a Stobswell resident for 32 years. “We always make everybody welcome; whether they come from the south or north they integrate into Stobswell. “I know a lot of people in Sto...

Dundee MND sufferer will travel to Dignitas but says it’s time Scotland embraces the right to die © Mhairi Edwards Dave Finlayson A terminally ill Dundee man says securing the right to die changed his life and believes all Scots should be afforded the same dignity in death. Dave Finlayson, 71, who has motor neuron disease (MND), is resigned to the fact he only has a few years left to live. Despite this, he says he feels free. Two years ago, he arranged what he calls an “escape route” mea...

Updated: May 25, 2021, 11:02 am © Shutterstock / Alan Smillie Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Scotland’s two largest fishing associations are urging Scottish ministers to create a special panel to review stock assessments after wild swings in catch advice in recent years. SWFPA and SFA say Ices’ assessments have “shaky foundations”, with most derived from computer models and complex mathematical...

Have you seen missing Inverness man Jason Paul Cochrane? Updated: May 9, 2021, 8:47 am © Police Scotland Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Police in Dingwall have launched an appeal for information after an Inverness man was reported missing on Saturday evening. Jason Paul Cochrane is believed to have been in the Conon Bridge area shortly before he was reported missing. Police have said they are concerned...