Aberdeen City news

• 'I've been offered £22,000 for Raac flat worth £60,000'

  19-12-2024 14:09 via bbc.com
  
  A man in his late 70s says the offer for his Aberdeen home is about a third of what it is worth.
  
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• Woman, 79, dies 10 days after car crash

  20-12-2024 19:36 via bbc.com
  
  Wilma Porter, from Montrose, was involved on a two-car crash near Gordoun in Aberdeenshire.
  
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• Man who posed as Good Samaritan jailed for rape

  20-12-2024 14:28 via bbc.com
  
  Diego Valdivieso lured a drunk and confused woman back to his flat.
  
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• Two men arrested after stabbing in Aberdeen

  20-12-2024 12:15 via bbc.com
  
  Emergency services were called to a disturbance in the city's Ash-Hill Place on Thursday night.
  
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• Inquiry into gamekeeper's crash death set for May

  20-12-2024 11:50 via bbc.com
  
  Matthew Burden, 36, died after the incident on the Tarland to Tillypronie road in January 2022.
  
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• Man rescued from North Sea 'thankful to be alive'

  20-12-2024 07:20 via bbc.com
  
  Chris Pike had taken a birthday dip off Macduff this week but started to be dragged further out to sea.
  
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• Tearful council leader sorry for library mistake

  19-12-2024 18:25 via bbc.com
  
  Moray Council leader Kathleen Robertson says she is sorry for mistakes made in handling of library closure proposals.
  
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• Farmers drive through city to protest tax changes

  19-12-2024 16:37 via bbc.com
  
  The protestors travelled to Aberdeen to highlight the impact the changes will have on the rural sector.
  
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• Family speaks out after firm fined for crush death

  19-12-2024 11:41 via bbc.com
  
  Liam Macdonald was pinned under a piece of equipment while cleaning a skip at a wind farm construction site.
  
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• Fresh consultation on 'no right turn' ruling

  18-12-2024 18:29 via bbc.com
  
  Aberdeen City Council voted to make bus gates and traffic restrictions permanent earlier this year.
  
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• Firm fined £860,000 after worker crushed to death

  18-12-2024 16:40 via bbc.com
  
  Liam Macdonald was pinned under a piece of equipment while cleaning a skip at a wind farm construction site.
  
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• Man jailed for torturing man who jumped to death

  18-12-2024 14:51 via bbc.com
  
  Jamie Forbes, 37, was held against his will before jumping from a 12th storey Aberdeen flat.
  
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• Prestigious Fellowship to explore a 'window onto the eclectic philosophical cultures of antiquity'

  18-12-2024 13:03 via abdn.ac.uk
  A University of Aberdeen biblical scholar has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to reevaluate the significance of the "biblical pseudepigrapha" as witnesses to philosophical cultures through antiquity.
  
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• Aberdeen academic awarded prestigious Fellowship to explore a 'window onto the eclectic philosophica

  18-12-2024 13:03 via abdn.ac.uk
  A University of Aberdeen biblical scholar has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to reevaluate the significance of the "biblical pseudepigrapha" as witnesses to philosophical cultures through antiquity.
  
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• BrewDog co-founder may delay marriage to max-out tax relief

  18-12-2024 11:31 via bbc.com
  
  James Watt has discussed his investment in fiance Georgia Toffolo's raw dog food venture.
  
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• MSPs back plans to end 'double-jobbing'

  17-12-2024 19:01 via bbc.com
  
  MSPs will no longer be allowed to sit in the House of Commons and Holyrood at the same time.
  
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• Swimmer rescued from North Sea by lifeboat crew

  17-12-2024 18:07 via bbc.com
  
  The person who was swimming off the coast of Macduff was taken to hospital.
  
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• King's former school ends deal with spy row firm

  17-12-2024 17:27 via bbc.com
  
  The deal with would have led to five new schools opening in China, all with close links to Gordonstoun.
  
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• Prison inspector condemns 'unacceptable' transport

  17-12-2024 15:18 via bbc.com
  
  Problems with prison transport are causing inmates to miss hospital appointments and family funerals, a report has revealed.
  
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• Former Walker's Shortbread director dies aged 80

  16-12-2024 18:13 via bbc.com
  
  Sir Jim Walker joined the Speyside family business in 1962 when it was still a village bakery.
  
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• Man jailed over fatal stabbing attack

  16-12-2024 12:21 via bbc.com
  
  Michael Jenkins, 24, died after the incident in Fraserburgh in June last year.
  
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• Under-fire care home to close after contract axed

  14-12-2024 13:26 via bbc.com
  
  Residents at Ruthrieston House in Aberdeen were found to be at serious risk due to medication management issues.
  
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• Theft of charity defibrillator branded 'abhorrent'

  13-12-2024 13:54 via bbc.com
  
  The life-saving equipment was from Keiran's Legacy, a charity set up after a teenager died.
  
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• 'A sense of belonging helps our cancer recovery'

  13-12-2024 10:30 via bbc.com
  
  Men recovering from prostate cancer praise the benefits of a group fitness regime in Aberdeen.
  
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• Government unveils new powers to approve onshore wind farms

  13-12-2024 09:44 via bbc.com
  
  The change is part of the government's new action plan for meeting its 2030 clean power target.
  
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• WW2 radiation suspends substation project

  13-12-2024 07:11 via bbc.com
  
  SSEN had been monitoring for radiation on the Orkney-Caithness subsea cable project site.
  
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• WW2 radiation affects Highland substation project

  13-12-2024 07:11 via bbc.com
  
  SSEN had been monitoring for radiation on the Orkney-Caithness subsea cable project site.
  
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• What are the chances of a white Christmas in the UK?

  13-12-2024 06:50 via bbc.com
  
  How likely are we to see a white Christmas in 2024?
  
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• FM considers call for non-fatal strangulation law

  12-12-2024 18:48 via bbc.com
  
  John Swinney called the practice "abhorrent", but said it already carries the potential sentence of life in prison.
  
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• NHS Grampian position 'very busy and challenging'

  12-12-2024 18:40 via bbc.com
  
  Chief executive Adam Coldwells says dozens of extra beds are being sought to improve capacity.
  
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