Another north-east community faces losing its post office, it emerged last night.
The branch at Rosehearty was not on the controversial hit list of rural branches, revealed earlier this week, but the village’s postmistress has revealed plans to shut up shop.
Helen Rushmer and husband Dennis will be leaving the outlet at the beginning of July after [...]

By Jamie Buchan

A seafood firm’s long-running battle to expand its Peterhead factory, against the wishes of some locals, enters its latest round this week.
Fresh Catch wants to nearly double the size of its Kirk Square cold store.
The move has been described as a “Trump-sized” opportunity [...]

By Jamie Buchan

SCORES of jobs will be up for grabs next week as a hotel prepares to open its doors at an old north-east air base.
The 47-bedroom venue is being created in the former officers’ mess at what used to be RAF Buchan at Boddam, [...]

THE farming couple who won last year’s Royal Northern Agricultural Society good farming practice award are hosting a farm walk on Thursday.
Peter Robertson and his wife, Elaine Booth, will be showing visitors around their unit at Ednie, St Fergus, near Peterhead, from 6pm.
They were recognised in the Aberdeenshire Council-sponsored competition for striking the right balance [...]

By Keith Findlay

Scotland’s fishermen are making plans today to step up their protest against soaring fuel costs as Holyrood and Westminster come under increasing pressure to bail the industry out of a crisis.
Arrangements for an action day – likely to take place on Friday or [...]

By Jamie Buchan

A north-east textile firm’s long-awaited plans to quit its existing base at Peterhead town centre are expected to be approved next week.
Smiths of Peterhead, which was launched after the collapse of crisis-hit Thomas Smith and Co four years ago, wants to transfer production [...]

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By Jamie Buchan

Decision day is looming for controversial plans to build Aberdeenshire’s biggest purpose-built nightclub near a north-east harbour.
The £1million development, proposed by Peterhead landlord Ian Sangster and his son Scott, is earmarked for land near the Harbour Lights bar.
But locals fear the development, on [...]

By Jamie Buchan

A VAN driver yesterday admitted causing the death of a north-east oil worker in an early-morning road crash.
Shane Youngson and wife Lucie – who had been together since they were teenagers – were rushed to hospital after the collision on the edge of [...]

By Joanna Skailes

The large number of people on remand, teenage prisoners, community sentencing and jail overcrowding were among the topics at talks on the future of Scotland’s prisons last night.
The public had a chance to have their say at the event in Aberdeen, organised by [...]

By Jamie Buchan and John Thomson

THREE post offices in Buchan face the axe as part of widespread closure a programme, it emerged yesterday.
Blacklaw, north of Aberchirder; Longhaven, near Peterhead; and Broadsea in Fraserburgh could be shut in the Post Office’s controversial shake-up of rural [...]

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