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All school pupils will have returned to classrooms by April 5 - while restaurants, shops and hairdressers could reopen by the end of April - under plans to ease Scotland's lockdown.

Groundhog Day: north-east business groups respond to plans for easing lockdown Business groups in the north-east have been responding to the announcement on plans to ease Scotlands coronavirus lockdown. The first minister hopes to be able to allow retail, hospitality, gyms and hairdressers to start operating again some time after April 26. Some other forms of non-essential retail - like click and collect - may be allowed to resume earlier in the month. No specific plans have been se...

Toni Braxton Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, television personality, and philanthropist. She rose to fame in the early 1990s as a popular R&B singer. Her self-titled debut studio album was released in 1993. It sold over 10 million copies worldwide, spawning such hits as "Another Sad Love Song" and "Breathe Again" and earning Braxton three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. Released in 1996, her second albu...

New asymptomatic Covid-19 testing centre opens in Aberdeen A new asymptomatic coronavirus testing facility has opened in Aberdeen. Based at Aberdeen Universitys Butchart Centre on University Road, the centre offers tests to key workers who do not have symptoms of the virus. Results of the tests are often revealed within 90 minutes. Those eligible to access the facility must book their test in advance via the booking portal here. Key workers can be tested twice a week three days ap...

Lifeboats from Aberdeen and Stonehaven joined the coastguard in the search for a missing person off Portlethen yesterday.

People with underlying health conditions and unpaid carers are starting to receive coronavirus vaccination appointments this week.

Original 106 is a local radio station for the Aberdeen area in the UK

Indoor care home visits to resume next month The Scottish Government has announced that routine indoor visiting of care home residents by relatives, friends and carers will be able to resume from next month. From early March, care providers can support residents to have up to two designated visitors each and one visit a week for each visitor. The government says meaningful contact should be made easier, now that theres a range of protections in place against coronavirus. Visitors ...

Bob Seger Robert Clark Seger (, born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the System from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he becam...

Popular north-east crime writing festival launches virtual event A popular north-east crime writing festival is back for its fifth year but this time it has gone online. Granite Noir, Aberdeens international festival, returns this weekend with a mix of live and pre-recorded author conversations, workshops and events.  It runs from tonight until Sunday with the likes of Val McDermid, Peter May, David Baldacci, Aberdeens Stuart MacBride, Iain Rankin and Isla Tranquair.  All events...