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© Supplied by Google Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An Elgin health centre will be handed back to the NHS this summer as a result of GP shortages. Partners at Elgin Community Surgery on Northfield Terrace – which has 4,703 patients on its books – will end their contract with NHS Grampian on July 1. Practice staff have been informed of the situation and letters have been sent to all patients registe...

Dundee have the big-game mentality to deal with play-off pressure insists boss James McPake © Shutterstock Feed Dundee players celebrate beating Hearts in January. “When the chips have really been down and we are under pressure, the players have performed.” Dundee boss James McPake has no worries about his side’s big-game mentality as he prepares them for a season-defining couple of weeks. The Dark Blues get their first taste of play-off football on Wednesday night as they travel to Rait...

Sixth P-8 Posiedon submarine hunter due at RAF Lossiemouth is christened Guernsey's Reply to continue close connection with Channel island.

Updated: May 10, 2021, 9:47 am © Supplied by gn4 pics Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Alba members in the north and north east have pledged allegiance to the party post-election. Three former SNP councillors in Aberdeenshire who left the party and joined Alba say they will continue as Alba councillors – and potentially stand for election under the former first minister’s party banner at next year’...

© Supplied by Police Scotland Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Concerns continue about high numbers of coronavirus cases in Moray amid reports locals breaching requirements to self-isolate. Across the weekend the first patients began receiving their vaccine injections as part of NHS Grampian’s accelerated rollout to all over 18s. Opening hours at the Fiona Elcock vaccination centre in Elgin have been e...

Demonstration held calling for closure of north-east pig farm at centre of animal cruelty allegations © DCT Media Campaigners are calling for a north-east pig farm currently under investigation amid animal welfare concerns to be shut down. It comes after Animal Equity UK released graphic images of pigs suffering severe injuries and, in some instances, being hammered to death or bludgeoned against a concrete floor following an undercover investigation at the farm. Today, activists armed with si...

Scottish Election: SNP majority hangs in the balance as count enters final day © Mhairi Edwards Nicola Sturgeon’s hope for an outright win at Holyrood was pegged back despite major wins for the SNP in target seats across the country. The party picked up landmark victories from Labour and Conservatives but tactical unionist voting appears to have blunted the necessary SNP surge. The second and final day of counting ends this evening. Results will include the proportional regional lists – wh...

© Shutterstock / Philip Birtwistle Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Recent fuel spillages in Oban Bay have demonstrated the “urgent need” for an overall harbour authority to manage the waters. That is the opinion of Oban Community Harbour Development Association chairman John MacAlister, who expressed disappointment at the lack of progress in the situation. The association was formed in 2019 to creat...

North-east motoring enthusiast taken to funeral in back of vintage Land Rover © DCT Media Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A north-east museum stepped in to fulfill the dying wish of a north-east motoring enthusiast  – by taking him to his funeral in the back of a vintage Mountain Rescue ambulance. David Millar, a trustee of the Alford-based Grampian Transport Museum, died of cancer at 67 years old at...

How a vote count blunder almost cost the SNP its 2007 breakthrough © SYSTEM The tension was palpable for those inside Inverness Leisure Centre the last time Scotland waited with bated breath for regional list results to be declared. With Labour and the SNP locked in the tightest of races, the eyes of the nation fell on the Highland capital as Holyrood’s final seven MSPs were named on May 4, 2007. Late in the afternoon, rumours began to circulate that Alex Salmond’s bid to become first mini...