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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
The Auld Kirk in the Banffshire village of Cullen was close to full as people paid their last respects to Rachel Putnam, 20, and her sister Elena, 18, who were both students of Glasgow University.They died on 14 July, when the car they were travelling in was in a head-on collision with a van in Aberdeenshire.The car's driver, Mark Gardiner, 22, Rachel's boyfriend, was also killed. His funeral...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
The Auld Kirk in the Banffshire village of Cullen was close to full as people paid their last respects to Rachel Putnam, 20, and her sister Elena, 18, who were both students of Glasgow University.They died on 14 July, when the car they were travelling in was in a head-on collision with a van in Aberdeenshire.The car's driver, Mark Gardiner, 22, Rachel's boyfriend, was also killed. His funeral...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
... A quarter of all children in Turkana, northern Kenya, are suffering from acute malnutrition.Aberdeenshire singer Sandi Thom will today front Oxfam Scotland's appeal by helping to construct an 11,000-litre water tank in George Square, Glasgow, to illustrate the charity's response to people in need of humanitarian assistance.Judith Robertson, head of Oxfam Scotland, said: "Governments must...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
... A quarter of all children in Turkana, northern Kenya, are suffering from acute malnutrition.Aberdeenshire singer Sandi Thom will today front Oxfam Scotland's appeal by helping to construct an 11,000-litre water tank in George Square, Glasgow, to illustrate the charity's response to people in need of humanitarian assistance.Judith Robertson, head of Oxfam Scotland, said: "Governments must...
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
UK NEWSSEA RESCUE HELICOPTER CREW PICK UP A PENGUIN OR TWO Thursday July 24,2008 By Judith DuffyA FULL scale search-and-rescue operation launched amid fears a plane had plunged into the sea, was called off after the casualties turned out to be two inflatable penguins.An elderly member of the public raised the alarm when he became convinced two large objects glinting off the coast of Aberdeenshire...
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MicroShaft Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Blogging from Deep in Aberdeenshire. A Bit of Politics, Some Photos, Some Family Life and some Computer bits (when I'm bored) Formerly known as the "Tarland Mad House"
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A man is being airlifted to hospital after a serious industrial accident on an Aberdeenshire farm.
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Liberal England (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I have not seen it, but I trust this column was in last Friday's Liberal Democrat News . Westminster wisdom If you are looking for entertainment, I recommend a close reading of Hansard. Take this exchange from Westminster Hall: Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) (LD): … We visited the microfinance initiative in Kabul and saw women entrepreneurs. Women got the microfinance loans,...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
THE parents of a young Aberdeenshire dental nurse who smashed into a tree have claimed she was killed because she swerved to avoid a deer.
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Rob Edwards (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
from Sunday Herald, 20 July 2008 Beaches across Scotland are being contaminated with sewage this summer in breach of 30-year-old safety limits, threatening bathers with illness and infections. One bathing water - Cruden Bay near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire - has already failed to meet the legal standard for 2008. Ten other beaches have been given a “yellow card” by the Scottish Environment Protection...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Pensioner crushed by farm trailer « Previous Next »AN ELDERLY man was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries yesterday after being crushed by a trailer.The 70-year-old, who has not been named, was working at his scrapyard near Auchnagatt in Aberdeenshire when the wind tipped the farm trailer on to him.The full article contains 50 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.Page 1 of 1Last...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Pensioner crushed by farm trailerAN ELDERLY man was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries yesterday after being crushed by a trailer.The 70-year-old, who has not been named, was working at his scrapyard near Auchnagatt in Aberdeenshire when the wind tipped the farm trailer on to him.The full article contains 50 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.21 July 2008 10:21 PM
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
THE parents of a young Aberdeenshire dental nurse who smashed into a tree have claimed she was killed because she swerved to avoid a deer.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A driver escapes serious injury when his car flips on to its roof on an Aberdeenshire road.
