THE Dufftown to Rhynie road will be closed for an additional week for repairs to continue at Blackwater Bridge. …

A BUCKIE councillor is urging action on calls to make free school meals more accessible in Moray's secondaries. …

Previously, developed countries had been reluctant to commit to paying up compensation for the damage already caused to countries in the Global South Source

LOCALiQ – part of Newsquest Media Group – has published its State of Digital Marketing Report. Source

Last weekend a bomb exploded in central Istanbul. This weekend, like night follows day, Turkish planes began to rain bombs on Kurdish towns and villages in Syria and also in Iraq.  Turkey has called it ‘payback time’ for the Istanbul bomb, which they insist was instigated by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria and […] Source

The Eclipse of Scottish Culture: Inferiorism and the Intellectuals, by Craig Beveridge and Ronald Turnbull, Polygon 1989. Review by Johnny Rodger Does the independence ‘debate’ consist simply in the endless repetition of the same old tropes? Sometimes it feels a wee bit stuck. One book, however – The Eclipse of Scottish Culture – written almost […] Source

Sheku Tehjan Bayoh. His name speaks to rhythm familiar to some, but here in Scotland, not most of us. It takes a little more work for some of us to attune our ears to these vowels and consonants, which are taught here and there. Here, and there, we learn not to question a language of […] Source

THANK you for the article by Craig Meighan “Overhaul UK Energy System to save £18bn” (Nov 17) which tackles a topic which has puzzled me somewhat. It also raises a number of questions. Source

THE pound has dropped sharply against the US dollar as financial markets fretted over warnings the UK is already in recession and fears Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s austerity budget will compound economic woes. Source

  An independent Scotland will rejoin the EU  Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster for Scotland Brexit has seriously damaged Scottish exports, cost jobs, slowed our economy and robbed our communities of essential EU funding that the disintegrating UK Government can’t replace. Despite Scotland rejecting Brexit with a landslide 62%…

  Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s headline increases in spending mask underlying declines. Make no mistake- this is an austerity budget and it’s not that well disguised. The spend on the NHS will not be nearly enough to bring health spending in line with other developed countries. The UK has spent about 20 percent less per person […] Source

THE UK Government is under increasing pressure to overhaul the energy system in a plan that proponents say would save £18 billion a year. Source