ALCOHOL aisles are a portal to a different, more vibrant world. It’s a fashion show of bottles; a fun competition for the attention of a lonesome shopper … Source

The experiences I had in Morocco will stay with me for the rest of my life. The first time I heard the sunset call to prayer from the Spanish Mosque in Chefchaouen, as it echoed between the hills, the muezzins of all the other mosques in the valley resounding in turn, to the point that […] Source

When Margaret Thatcher escaped the IRA’s bombing of the Brighton hotel on 12 October 1984, she immediately used it as political capital. She decided to continue the Conservative conference as normal, and was given a standing ovation by delegates as she entered the stage just six and a half hours after the explosion. No doubt […] Source

Defendant spotted at scene looking ‘nervous and distressed’ …

A touch of Hollywood came to Buckie Community High School (BCHS) during the last week of term when Shrek Jnr the Musical took to the stage. …

AS Moray comes to terms with a changed political landscape after the 2024 General Election, take a look at our data dashboard and analysis. …

The sale of a vacant Largs pub has been confirmed – with the site set to be turned into a restaurant. Source

THE CEO of an energy company has said Scotland could have free electricity at times if Ofgem changed its regulations. Source

It’s a question that few of us have asked in the last decade or more. The assumption, however misplaced has been that the SNP were the vehicle to exert pressure on the British state to conceded constitutional change. That now seems far-fetched, for many it has for some time. As Jamie Maxwell writes in Politico: […] Source

KEIR Starmer has promised to “preserve jobs” at Grangemouth oil refinery ahead of his meeting with John Swinney … Source

“I am the nothing around which all this spins, I exist so that it can spin, I am a centre that exists only because everything circle has one… I am the centre of everything surrounded by a great nothing.” – Fernando Pesso, The Book of Disquiet IN 1997, a few weeks before Tony Blair’s New […] Source

FORMER Scottish secretary Douglas Alexander has joined Keir Starmer’s Cabinet as business minister … Source

THE future of the North Sea has been a contentious issue in recent years. The new licences for oil and gas under the Conservative government have led to intensifying Just Stop Oil protests with a backdrop of damning predictions of our prospects of reaching net zero by 2050, (or indeed 2045) … Source