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SNP Westminster candidate for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East councillor Seamus Logan has been formally adopted. …

Almost twenty years ago the Conservatives paid for a huge advertising hoarding outside City and Islington College’s sixth-form centre, saying on one side: “I mean, how hard is it to keep a hospital clean?” and on the other: “It’s not racist to impose limits on immigration”. At the foot of the poster, a question is […] Source

A POPULAR Vietnamese street food restaurant has announced the location of its second site. Source

THE Scottish Government is considering plans to crack down on junk food with restrictions on meal deals and special offers on sugary snacks. Source

SCOTTISH investment firm Abrdn said clients have pulled billions from the investment company as it begins major cuts this year. Source

FOR many Scots, the striking poster of Margaret Thatcher with fangs that dripped oil instead of blood sums up the waste of the profits from the “black gold” discovered in the North Sea … Source

Richard Johnston worked in management, construction and production in the North Sea oil industry both on and offshore for more than 30 years. Source

Douglas Rooney on the rise of the brocast, the cringey podcast of the chumocracy and the ascendance of a weird new form of centrism. I work with a very nice American woman. She is hard-working, unfailingly polite and pleasant. However, we will never be friends. She is a Trump supporting conservative who campaigns for anti-LGBTQ+ […] Source

The Belfast rap trio KNEECAP has accused the UK government of trying to “silence” them after it blocked a British Phonographic Industry (BPI) funding award.  The band have since instructed a prominent Kneecap: Belfast rap group take legal action after UK blocks grant – BBC News.  “On December 4th, 2023, our clients applied in their […] Source

Many Scots are angry that the profits from the exploitation of Scotland’s oil for the last 50 years have gone south. There is little to show for the oil boom in Aberdeen and other areas where they were extracted. For years Business for Scotland has argued that the oil and gas companies who exploit this […] Source

WELLBRING, technology and climate action are set to take centre stage at a conference for Moray community groups. …

A NEW vinyl pressing plant in Glasgow backed by Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr has launched a new crowdfunder campaign. Source