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North-east police officer on career break launches postal baking business Holy Moly Bakes Updated: 28/04/2021, 2:02 pm © DCT Media/Kath Flannery Career break is a recipe for success as police officer gets off to flying start with her baking business. A north-east woman has launched her new baking business to great success, with locals bagging more than 30 boxes of her goods each week. Alex Cain, who has worked in the force for 20 years and is currently on a career break from Police Scotland, s...

Section of the Antarctic named after Aberdeen university researcher Updated: 28/04/2021, 11:51 am © Supplied by University of Aberde An Aberdeen University researched has followed in the footsteps of Captain James Cook in having a section of the Antarctic named after him. The Hole Peninsula has been named in recognition of geologist Malcolm Hole, who spent seven years working in the Antarctic before coming to the north-east. The Hole Peninsula forms part of Rothschild Island and in 1985, Mr Ho...

Former RAF Lossiemouth man behind bars to await sentence for getting woman to film herself squashing babies By Court Reporter Updated: April 28, 2021, 3:10 pm © Gordon Currie Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A former RAF serviceman who posed as a film stuntman to persuade a woman to make videos of herself sitting on babies is behind bars as he faces being sentenced to lifelong restrictions. Andrew ...

© 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 The north’s tourism recovery has gained momentum with the opening of a major distillery visitor centre after a multi-million pound revamp. The redeveloped Clynelish Distillery has opened its doors in Brora, on the North Coast 500 tourist route, as visitors make a r...

Updated: April 28, 2021, 9:16 am © Supplied by Kim MacFarlane Let’s imagine that dogs have a similar cognition to humans and let’s use Emily as an example. Roughly three years ago the Collie cross was abandoned and forced to hide in a small dirt hole somewhere in Hungary to prevent her from being eaten by other dogs similarly left for dead. At that moment, human head on, could Emily have possibly envisaged a few months later being lauded for bringing together a family in Fife? Arguably eve...

Aberdeen airport welcomes new chair Lena Wilson CBE Updated: 28/04/2021, 12:01 pm © Supplied Aberdeen International Airport has announced the appointment of its new chair. Lena will succeed Sir Peter Mason, who has chaired AGS since it was formed in 2014 by Ferrovial and Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA). She is one of the UK’s most senior business figures, serving as a chair or non-executive on a range of PLCs and other organisations across a variety of sectors. Having had a ...

© Gareth Jennings/DCT Media Evening telegraph/ Courier Dundee news CR0027892 G Jennings pics , Nicola Duncan (35) Glenconnor Drive Dundee, with a picture of her new baby Willow who is terminally ill, and is in HDU Ninewells, tuesday 28th April. A mother whose terminally ill baby has spent the majority of her life in hospital has admitted she lives in “constant dread” of being told by doctors her child has died. Nicola Duncan, 35, from Linlathen, gave birth to Willow at Ninewells Hospital...

Police helicopter search launched after black rucksack found near top of Scottish mountain Updated: 28/04/2021, 12:38 pm © Supplied by Police A police helicopter has been called out to help search a Scottish mountain after a black rucksack was found near the summit. The alarm was raised today after the black Lowepro backpack (30l capacity) was discovered at Stob a’Choire Odhair, which is north of the Bridge of Orchy. Inside the rucksack is clothing, food and water, with other items being fou...

Dundee analysis: Turning set-piece Achilles heel into a weapon © SNS Group Lee Ashcroft scored twice at Alloa. It wasn’t long ago set-pieces were Dundee’s Achilles heel as they struggled for a consistent run of form in the Championship. Now they are unbeaten in the league for almost six weeks and have turned their weakness at set-plays into a weapon. Since losing two goals from corners in a poor 3-1 defeat at Raith Rovers in January, the Dark Blues had played all the way until Saturday aga...

© Ross Gardiner/DCT Media David Cole has been ordered to pay compensation for racist remarks he made at a Fife bank. A Fife chaplain threatened and racially abused a bank teller in Dunfermline. David Cole was sentenced at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Wednesday, having previously pled guilty to acting in a threatening and abusive manner at the TSB bank branch on Queensferry Road last summer. Cole appeared in the dock wearing a dog collar and clutching a scripture book. He had admitted acting in...