NHS Grampian will find balancing its books impossible without a “significant redesign” of local services or “fundamental changes” to funding. …

Isle of Raasay has been named the “world’s best Scotch whisky” after scoring 99 out of 100, one of the highest in the competition’s history Source

All those who played a role in making a unique commemorative exhibition happen are being recognised in a new booklet. …

A SCOTTISH council has been forced to revisit proposals for an artificial intelligence data centre, The National can reveal. Source

The Empire is Alive and Kicking and its Legacy Still With Us Nigel Biggar, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt, Forum, £20. Review by Alan Lester Nigel Biggar is the right-wing’s pro-Empire champion. In Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning he went into battle against historians and anti-racist campaigners who identify British colonialism’s record of […] Source

The Miljacka River, narrow and winding, threads through Sarajevo like a vein of memory. Locals say its name comes from milja, meaning ‘the dear one.’ During the Siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996), the city was encircled by Bosnian Serb forces, resulting in one of the longest sieges in modern warfare. People crossed its bridges with hearts […] Source

Dublin folk band Lankum have released a devastating cover of The Specials 1981 number one hit ‘Ghost Town’. As they say the more things change, the more they stay the same. As Klof mag writes: “The original single was a haunting and perfectly timed piece of social commentary, capturing the bleak national mood of urban […] Source

Town meeting this Thursday. …

Moray is home to more finalists at Scotland’s top curry awards this year than anywhere outside Glasgow. …

Heron House Group’s new Inverness restaurant and cocktail bar, Babette, will create 25 jobs when it opens next week. …

“You don’t fight fascism because you’re going to win, you fight fascism because it is fascism.” – Jean Paul Sartre The slide towards authoritarian rule in Britain and the US, and the prospects of a Trump third-term and a Farage government in the UK, has to be resisted. At the heart of this is the […] Source

MV Hebridean Isles departed Scotland on her final voyage as the vessel made her way to a recycling yard in Denmark … Source

A RESTAURANT in Inverness is closing after a bereavement made the owners reflect on “how short life is” Source

SHOP price inflation slowed in October despite fresh food now costing 4.3 per cent more than it did a year ago, latest industry figures show … Source