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Bill Gibb's family with Banff and Buchan Area Committee chair Cllr Doreen Mair (left) and Communities Committee chair Cllr Anne Stirling (right), accompanied by Chris Reid (centre) of the Fraserburgh Heritage Centre which has done so much to recognise and promote Bill’s work and tremendous legacy.

Fraserburgh development to be named after iconic fashion designer

Much was made about Morton's being "saved" but what does it mean for employees?

Paul Kissen: Morton's Rolls are back but what is actually left?

A screengrab showing the price of many of the shirts listed on Ebay.

Scotland 150th anniversary kits on sale for £175 on Ebay hours after release

Edinburgh’s council taxpayers have had to fork out more than £100,000 to pay the legal fees in the authority’s failed bid to ban strip clubs.

Council pays out more than £100,000 in legal fees in failed sex club fight

A crowdfunding campaign is underway to support Devine Tension's new promenade performance show Passion Project.

Culture crowdfunders launched for drag queen, pop-up cinema and railway mural

Actress Tilda Swinton. Picture: Marc Piasecki

Tilda Swinton: 'Invaluable' Filmhouse should not be sold to highest bidder

The entrance to Marine North Berwick. Pic: Contributed

Review: Marine North Berwick - NB Distillery package - Scotland on Sunday Travel

Dr Patricia Thomas in her office in 1990

Scotsman Obituaries: Dr Patricia Thomas, go-ahead Head of James Gillespie’s

Handout photo issued by Avalon of a puppet with the likeness of Boris Johnson

Scrapping episodes of Spitting Image featuring the late Queen cost £9m - ITV

Migrants are escorted ashore from the UK Border Force vessel 'BF Ranger' in Dover, southeast England.

Private companies see profits soar as UK Government increases asylum hotels

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes has said she has confidence in the process to find a new leader and does not wish the contest to be rerun.

Kate Forbes ‘very confident’ in SNP leadership process

Workers are £11,000 worse off per year due to 15 years of wage stagnation, according to the Resolution Foundation.

Workers £11,000 worse off a year due to stagnant wages – Resolution Foundation

Archbishop Leo Cushley

Parishioners question leading Catholic cleric over multimillion pound funds

Immersive Light and Sound Bath by Hrmny Collective + Flolux, Lightart by Flora Litchfield (flolux) 2022

Sound and light bathing: we try a session with Edinburgh's Hrmny Collective

Happy mother's day! Beautiful young woman and her mother with flowers and gift box at home. Pic: Adobe

This Mother's Day, take some life advice from Mrs Soutar - Gaby Soutar

A homeless person at a Crisis centre. Picture: PA

My homelessness was predicted years ago - but we can stop it for others

Rescued otters are kept at the IOSF sanctuary until they have learned to hunt and are able to look after themselves, usually when they reach around 12 to 15 months old

How a charity on Skye is working to save otters across the globe

Mel Gibson and James Cosmo in Braveheart

Goriest battle scenes were edited out of Braveheart says James Cosmo

The son of the man who famously smuggled the Stone of Destiny back to Scotland from Westminster Abbey says his father would not want it to be returned to London for the King's coronation. Ian Hamilton, who died last year, broke into the abbey in 1950 and removed the stone, alongside a group of students. Mr Hamilton's son Jamie told the BBC: "I think his view would be, it's ridiculous."

Stone of Destiny shouldn’t go to Westminster for coronation – Ian Hamilton’s son

Lance Reddick, star of The Wire and John Wick franchise, has died at the age of 60, his representatives have confirmed.

The Wire and John Wick actor Lance Reddick dies at the age of 60

Actress Meg Bellamy, who plays Kate Middleton, and actor Ed McVey, who plays the part of Prince William, film scenes for the next season of The Crown in St Andrews in

13 pictures as The Crown stars spotted filming together as William and Kate

Extinction Rebellion Scotland protesters calling for an end to the fossil fuel industry as they demonstrate outside the Scottish Energy Forum annual dinner at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

Protesters 'occupy' the Scottish Energy Forum annual dinner in Edinburgh

Gary Lineker, who will return to TV screens to present live coverage of the FA Cup quarter-final between Manchester City and Burnley on Saturday.

Gary Lineker will not host Match of the Day this weekend - here's why

Topol, pictured in 2015, was just 30 when he first played Tevye (Picture: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Scotsman Obituaries: Topol, Israeli star of Fiddler on the Roof

Production is to set to start at Morton's Rolls with half of the workforce returning, after the firm was bought out of administration by a consortium.

Mortons Rolls to restart production after rescue - with cut to workforce

COS Edinburgh Pic Mark Cocksedge

COS fashion chain opens in St James Quarter

A retired taxi driver has said he will “sure as heck enjoy” returning to the road and travelling around the Scottish Highlands after scooping £1 million in a National Lottery draw.

Retired taxi driver will return to Scottish Highland roads after £1m lotto win

Robert Smith claimed that Ticketmaster agreed the fees had been "unduly high" and would return some of the money tweeting: "If you already bought a ticket, you will get an automatic refund. All tickets on sale tomorrow will incur lower fees."

Ticketmaster issue partial refund for The Cure fans over fees row

Kath M Melia influenced generations of nursing students (Photograph courtesy of the University of Edinburgh)

Scotsman Obituaries: Kath M Melia, Professor of Nursing Studies

This Victorian attic flat has no gas connection but does have electricity and running water, and is in a mansion-style fronted house with views over Rothesay Bay.

'A bit of a fixer upper' attic flat on sale on Rothesay for £10,000

Actors Ed McVey, as Prince William and actress Meg Bellamy, who plays Kate Middleton in between filming scenes for the next season of The Crown in St Andrews, Scotland.

First pictures of Meg Bellamy as Kate Middleton as The Crown filming continues

Alison Hammond who has confirmed she will become the new co-host of The Great British Bake Off. The actress and This Morning presenter will replace comedian Matt Lucas, who announced his departure last year.

Alison Hammond announced as new co-host of The Great British Bake Off

Fringe Society chief excutive Shona McCarthy. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe set to share £8.6m Budget boost

Comic Relief will return on Friday night, with the annual charity fundraiser featuring a star-studded line of presenters and performers.

Comic Relief 2023 to return with usual star-studded performer line-up

Passport Office workers are to strike for five weeks in an escalation of a dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.

Passport Office workers to strike for five weeks in escalation of pay row

Cybermen at the entrance to the National Museum Of Scotland at a preview for the Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder exhibition at National Museum of Scotland in December. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

National Museum crowned Scotland’s most popular attraction

An image from romantic comedy film Gregory’s Girl was projected onto the Filmhouse in Edinburgh as part of the campaign to save it

Businessman reveals eleventh-hour bid to reopen Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema

Sketches of the Famous Blacksmiths Shop

100-year old sketches of Gretna Green's blacksmith shop found in Fife attic

Actor Ed McVey, who plays the part of Prince William, on set in between filming scenes at the harbour for the next season of The Crown in St Andrews

14 pictures as The Crown actor Ed McVey spotted jogging through St Andrews

BBC Question Time is coming from Glasgow tonight

Who's on Question Time tonight? Full line-up of panellists in Warrington

Airth Castle Hotel has gone into voluntary liquidation

Job losses and angry guests after Falkirk area hotel's 'voluntary liquidation'

Nicola Sturgeon was quizzed over £87,000 bonuses paid to management at Ferguson Marine during a heated First Minister’s Questions.

FMQs: Nicola Sturgeon quizzed over bonuses paid to management at Ferguson Marine

Plans for the world's first octopus farm has sparked concerns from the scientific community

Scientists express concern at world's first octopus farm proposals

Actor Richard Rankin. Picture: Robert Perry

Outlander star cast as John Rebus for detective’s TV reboot

Ed McVey, playing the part of Prince William and Dominic West playing the part of Prince of Wales as they film scenes for the next season of The Crown in St Andrews, Scotland.

12 pictures of The Crown filming in Scotland

We’ve compiled a list of the 15 best Edinburgh pubs to watch this weekend's rugby action unfold.

15 great pubs to watch the Six Nations

Cheveux Salon

We visit Cheveux Salon in Edinburgh for a BAFTA-worthy new style

Estonian saunas at The Bracken Hide Pic: Athena Zelandonii

The Bracken Hide, Skye, opens

Jeremy Hunt confirmed nuclear power would be classed as “environmentally sustainable” to drive investment in the energy sector, and said he would launch “Great British Nuclear” to bring down costs

RECAP: Jeremy Hunt announces Budget with pension, fuel duty, and energy changes

Nuclear power will be classed as “environmentally sustainable” which will give it access to the same investment incentives as renewable energy.

Nuclear power to be reclassed as 'environmentally sustainable'

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing Street, London, with his ministerial box and members of his ministerial team before delivering his Budget at the Houses of Parliament. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

What changes has Jeremy Hunt announced for UK pensions in Budget?

MoneySavingExpert’s Martin Lewis has joined calls for the Government to urgently consider halting plans to raise energy bills in April, saying any decision cannot wait until the spring Budget.

What is the Energy Price Guarantee? How does it differ from the price cap?

Anne, receptionist at Landale Court, with the Trauma Teddies

Landale Court staff and homeowners knit Trauma Teddies for charity

Pittodrie House Hotel

Pittodrie House Hotel confident about its next chapter

Bill Thain, National Account Manager at Mackie's of Scotland (Pic:Ross Johnston/Newsline Media)

Loyal Mackie’s staff celebrate a combined 93 years of service

JK Rowling says she “absolutely knew” that her comments and views on transgender issues would make Harry Potter fans “deeply unhappy”.

JK Rowling: I knew views on trans issues would make Potter fans deeply unhappy

Plans have been lodged to convert the former post office and art gallery.

Plans to turn former gallery into family home

Be quick! The competition closes on March 31.

Final chance to capture the essence of Coorie

Ambassadors: Robson Green, Dame Katherine Grainger and Al Peake

River Dee charity announces Ambassadors

Ainslie Thin joined Thin’s on Edinburgh’s South Bridge in 1958

Obituaries: Ainslie Thin, bookseller who devoted his life to James Thin Ltd

Alcopop bottles Pic: Julianpictures Adobe

Alcopops are out of the ONS basket, but we haven't bought one since the Nineties

Ukrainian and Czech circus artists performed at the McEwan Hall during last year's Fringe (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Chancellor's £8.6m festivals boost likely to prompt Scottish Government reaction

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The then prime minister Boris Johnson (right) at a leaving gathering in the vestibule of the Press Office of 10 Downing Street, London,.

Five key questions as Boris Johnson prepares to face Privileges Committee

David Harris and other executives at Circularity Scotland are receiving a combined £667,000 in annual salaries and fees.

MSPs condemn ‘monstrous’ payments to deposit return scheme executives

The epicentre of the earthquake is believed to be in Afghanistan.

Earthquake measuring 6.5 hits Afghanistan and Pakistan