Liz Tait has been on the ground in the aftermath of several high-profile disasters with the British Red Cross. …

Steve Ferrett became a volunteer with Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide after the group helped him learn to live with his grief. …

Tickets on sale for 10-day event next month. …

COMPUTER scientists in Aberdeen are using AI to supercharge Scottish renewable technology, which could power thousands more homes and help the country reach its net zero ambitions. Source

PLANS to convert the UK’s largest conventional hydro power plant – on the banks of Loch Lomond – into a renewables project have been announced … Source

BILLIONAIRE Inverclyde businessmen Sandy and James Easdale have moved up in the UK Rich List with their fortune now put at £1.425bn. Source

EXPORTS of Scottish salmon to Asian nations have more than doubled, according to new figures from the UK Government … Source

Multiple ferries have been out of action for long periods across the CalMac fleet, but one of the worst affected services has been the Corran Narrows. Source

“History’s a strange thing. A day went by recently that it’ll remember. But we scarcely noticed at all. Merely a whisper was felt … here we are. Crossing the last thresholds of the greatest event in human history, and it barely makes the news.” – Umair Haque This week, news broke that sometime in the […] Source

Woodside Library is Aberdeen’s oldest. It first opened to the public in 1883 – the gift of Sir John Anderson, an ageing industrialist – and was shuttered a few months shy of its 140th anniversary. Built in grey granite, signature stone of the city’s civic realm, the library interior is bright and airy. Book-lined walls […] Source

NICOLA Sturgeon has “absolutely” failed young people in Scotland. – Bruce Adamson, retiring commissioner for children and young people, in a BBC interview … Source

NICOLA Sturgeon has “absolutely” failed young people in Scotland. – Bruce Adamson, retiring commissioner for children and young people, in a BBC interview … Source

“We have not delivered on Brexit… the Tories have let us down very, very badly”. Arch Brexiteer Nigel Farage’s words on Newsnight this week have caused tremors across the UK’s political landscape. Farage and his party UKIP were hugely prominent and influential in selling Brexit to voters. Scotland didn’t fall…