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…

Back in 2013, seaweed wasn’t really a thing. I was driving up to Fife from Cornwall that September, white van full to the gun’ls with seaweed harvesting and monitoring equipment, towing my currach boat behind me. I’d had enough of Cornwall, too many sharp elbows, too white, too self-satisfied. I’d set up a community seaweed […] Source

SIX Moray High School's joined together for Moray Tennis Forum's first ever tennis festival. …

WETHERSPOONS is set to invest £4 million revamping an historic Scottish building “to the quality it was in days gone by” … Source

A PARKING charge will be introduced at Quarry Wood next month amid criticism the move will price locals out. …

Watching the stupid unfold from the stage at the National Conservatism conference we compiled our Top Ten of the stupidest things said at the new event that marks the convergence point of the Tory party with neo-fascism  … Straight in an No. 1 is Yoram Hazony … What is national conservatism? Before anything else, it’s […] Source

DRIVERS have been asked to avoid the area. …

In 2016 at a Sioux Center in Iowa, Donald trump famously said “I have the most loyal people – did you ever see that? I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” No we know it’s true. On Tuesday a New York jury ruled […] Source

Perhaps understandably there’s not a lot of hope about. In the post-Coronation melancholy, witnessing the repression of the most basic of our political rights, in the shadow of the shambles of Nicola Sturgeon’s departure, in the absence of any credible political alternative and having to bathe in the waters of a reactionary media pool, there […] Source

A new eatery is ‘opening soon’ at a former Glasgow pizzeria unit. Source