The council have been warned to keep parents and pets away from a pond’s water. …

Keith Football Club’s Kynoch Park was the venue for the fifth running of Friendly Fest. …

US energy giant Chevron will close its two offices in Aberdeen in favour of keeping its London base as its “regional hub” … Source

A SCOTCH whisky giant has announced the acquisition of one of its peers … Source

Sometimes you live within such a moron culture that you have to avoid wrestling with pigs. Such is the dilemma with having to discuss opposition to war crimes and genocide in the context of the British media. As Philip Proudfoot puts it: “The British Establishment is having a nervous breakdown—banning Palestine Action for red paint […] Source

ED Miliband is currently exploring ways to rescue an English oil refinery with hundreds of jobs at risk, according to reports Source

Populism is all (the) rage: The rise of the Populist International and its Scottish Potential We might be tempted to dismiss populism as the knee-jerk reaction of those who have been ‘left behind’ by economic and social forces broadly labelled ‘globalisation’, Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables. We would be unwise to do so.  Consider the […] Source

Resistance: Photographic exhibition at National Galleries Scotland: Modern Art Gallery 2, Edinburgh, curated by Steve McQueen Not long after this exhibition opened, Iran was bombed by the USA in contravention of international law. And closer to home, it has been stated that the Starmer Labour Government intends to make Palestine Action a proscribed organisation for […] Source

Crews linked to the filming of a Hollywood blockbuster have set up a base in a coastal village. …

The Princess Royal was in Moray to visit Gordonstoun and Forres and Nairn Riding for the Disabled. …

It should be uncontroversial to state that ‘net zero’ names a limited, corporate, technocratic horizon of decarbonisation. Numerous climate scientists have said as much themselves, calling net zero targets a ‘dangerous trap’ that slows necessary decarbonisation efforts by banking on the meso-scale deployment of future carbon removal technologies. The road to net zero is paved […] Source

A 49-year-old man has been sent to prison after grabbing and hitting his partner after an argument. …

A few years ago, the Unionist community realised that their previous line that we should abandon thoughts of independence because we were in a ‘Partnership of Equals’ was ridiculous and indefensible by even the most casual glance at reality. So what they did was they pretended they’d never said that, and it was just a […] Source