Store’s safe left sat on vehicle’s prongs as gang fled. …

A trip to Birmingham has landed a young Buckie lad an impressive medal haul. …

A VICTORIAN hotel located in a famous Highlands town where Macbeth, King of Scots died in battle, has gone up for sale … Source

Plans to build a biogas energy generation plant on the outskirts of Buckie took centre stage at a drop-in consultation session in the town. …

A FORMER director of a haulage firm has been jailed after a “brazen” fraud involving billing a client for police escorts, some of which never happened … Source

EDINBURGH has been revealed as the top UK target for Middle East property investors, according to industry experts … Source

A COALITION of organisations and individuals have united to call for the Scottish Government’s Land Reform Bill to be strengthened … Source

The Scotsman reports: “The nation’s crisis-hit cultural sector is facing major upheaval after the Scottish Government declared that it wanted to roll out cost-cutting reforms across the country’s major arts organisations.” “Work is underway on a spending squeeze expected to affect Scotland’s national museums, galleries and performing arts companies, as well as the national agencies […] Source

SCOTTISH salmon sales have reached a five year high as international demand continues to grow, according to recent data … Source

How not to do radicalism: The hold of Capital-ism on Labour’s Left from Benn to Corbyn The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies, Andy Beckett, Allen Lane £30. Review by Gerry Hassan This book covers the rise and fall, and rise again and subsequent fall, of the Labour […] Source

Author Margaret Elphinstone offers an ecopoetic account of a species that dominates the Scottish landscape. Our memories of our native land lie deep within us: an expectation of winds in appointed seasons, the touch of the varying rains, snow weighting the still soil in which our roots were embedded. Deep inside ourselves we remember many […] Source

The forces charity had intended to be a major part of a repurposed Leanchoil Hospital site. …