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275 years ago we pledged our loyalty to the people of the north and north-east of Scotland. We promised to tell local stories from our region, accurately and fairly, and the Press & Journal stands by that promise. Support local journalism that matters.
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🚨😷 BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon has announced that the wearing of face masks in Scotland will continue beyond March 21. Do you think that's the right call?
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Syrian refugee, 10, shows off award-winning Gaelic skills
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‘It was beyond belief’: New documentary reveals how Charles Kennedy was hounded online before he died
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The Scottish Tories are headed for disaster in their north-east stronghold, including leader Douglas Ross's Moray seat, according to a major new poll.
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Inverness, and the north, stands with Ukraine and democracy 🇺🇦
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It has now been almost three weeks since Aberdeen teenager Liam Smith disappeared without a trace. The Press and Journal has recreated the final confirmed movements of the missing 16-year-old to help jog the public’s memory.
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Appeal to find former Aberdeen Journals reporter Esther Beadle, last seen on Friday at 10pm
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Photographer who moved from England to Scotland says SNP Westminster leader ‘tried to stir up hatred’ with Tweet alleging lockdown breach
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Aberdeen council to open talks with UK Government on bypassing Holyrood on funding
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Shortbread men wearing face coverings prove hit at tills of Highland baker
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Douglas Ross ‘too feart to put himself before voters in Scottish constituency’
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Aberdeen City Council looking to bypass SNP to strike funding deal with Westminster
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Independence: Poll shows 58% of Scots back breakaway from UK
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Eilidh MacLeod: Manchester Arena victim remembered on the day she should have turned 18
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Ruth Davidson: Scottish Conservatives can block an SNP majority
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The Cairngorms National Park Authority is urging firms to increase the use of Gaelic. Would you like to see more Gaelic in signs, leaflets and guidebooks?
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Douglas Ross: I’ll halt pro-indy surge with unrelenting war on SNP
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Stars including Ricky Gervais and Simon Cowell have urged Indonesia’s president to ban what they say is a brutal trade in dog and cat meat for human consumption.
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Chris Deerin: Nicola Sturgeon’s new indyref2 plan is a sign of her weakness, not her strength
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Check out best of tonight's #NorthernLights pictures... This is our favourite so far
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"The SNP used to shout from the rooftops that ‘it’s Scotland’s oil’ – now they wish it was gone."
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Official flag for Skye unveiled as nine-year-old islander’s design comes up trumps
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Yes Sir Ice Can Boogie will be keeping roads ice-free this winter
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Salmond’s ‘bombshell’ accusation against Sturgeon could ‘end her political career’
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Leading Aberdeen professor Hugh Pennington claims city ‘punitively hammered’ in lockdown while Glasgow ‘let off the hook’
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‘Petty and dangerous’: Douglas Ross accused of ‘deliberately misleading’ committee
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“This cover was actually quite quick to compose, it only took me a couple of hours to do the arrangement.” What do you think of this cover of the Line of Duty theme song?
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🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will be given freedom of the Highlands👏
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Douglas Ross urged to apologise for food safety remarks that left farmers fuming
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North-east skipper Jimmy Buchan warns no-deal Brexit ‘will hurt’ Scottish fishing industry
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The Scottish Conservatives have also come under pressure to hand back £20,000 from PB Devco, a major Aberdeen hospitality firm whose operations director pleaded guilty to dealing drugs from one its city bars, the Draft Project.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to visit a renewable energy centre in Orkney next week as part of a tour around Scotland focusing on climate change and key workers.
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Stunning picture of the Aurora at Findhorn Beach sent in by Paul Scott 😲 isn't this just unreal? #Scotland #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights
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Barney Crockett has left the Labour group after describing Sir Keir Starmer’s energy strategy as “more brutal” than anything Margaret Thatcher did to industrial communities in the 1980’s.
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Heartbroken family tells parents to speak to their children, after son takes own life due to strain of lockdown
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New poll shows 55% support for independence referendum if Tories pursue hard Brexit
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Douglas Ross: Scottish Government sitting on £700m from Westminster – get it spent
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Mariya Pavlova's sister had to hang up the phone when she heard a bomb blast in Kyiv. Now the Ukrainian teacher living in Aberdeen has made a heartfelt plea to get her sibling and nephews out of Ukraine 💙💛
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SNP’s Angus Robertson condemned for ‘disgraceful’ comments suggesting elderly deaths were leading to independence ‘gain’
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Prof Hugh Pennington: We have not seen evidence to support claim new Covid variant is more transmissible
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Union army: Number 10 to draft dozens more staff to combat SNP
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Historic Aberdeen smokehouse says Westminster 'incompetence' has created seafood export chaos
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EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Government has no record of how many people have been contact traced for Covid-19
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Alex Bell: Writing on wall for Nicola Sturgeon as rot and malaise sweep across the land
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. @NicolaSturgeon writes for The P&J: Why Scotland is a better place after 10 years of SNP
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Highland seafood boss fears local industry could collapse after his firm suffered £63,000 loss in just one week
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Former SNP councillors join Salmond’s Alba Party amid concerns Sturgeon ‘has no plan to achieve independence referendum’
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Too late for apologies as Douglas Ross calls for first minister’s resignation after Salmond inquiry leak
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Alex Bell: SNP have had 14 years of government but still failed to build a fairer society
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'Playing World of Warcraft full-time was the best decision I ever made' #worldofwarcraft @Methodsco @Methodgg
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Beautiful pictures capture Northern Lights above Scotland http://t.co/XA2qezKabc http://t.co/L9SoO45IBS
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Leaked SNP accounts ‘show £670,000 spent on furnishings, computers and software last year’.
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Conservation bosses have taken the first steps towards reopening a historic cottage on Culloden Battlefield that has been closed to the public for a decade.
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We'll be coming down the road 🎵 Scotland fans have been spotted outside King's Cross Station in London ahead of tomorrow's big game against England. #EURO2020 #ENGSCO
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Ian Blackford tweet: ‘Cowardly’ Nicola Sturgeon cites MP’s ‘grace and dignity’
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Ben Wallace: Arguments for independence all slowly fall apart under scrutiny
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Exclusive: Camilla shares her favourite books with Press and Journal readers to help them through the lockdown
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James Millar: If anyone thinks 2021 is an easy canter to victory for the SNP, think again
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A drag queen with a history of explicit social media posts was invited to talk at a primary school. Mhairi Black told worried parents ‘your homophobia is transparent’
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Moray MP Douglas Ross has defended plans to cut Universal Credit despite more than 3,000 families in his constituency facing their benefits slashed.
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Today's Press and Journal front page: Queen Elizabeth II - 1926-2022.
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Congratulations to @JudyMurray and @NickyAACampbell who graduated from @aberdeenuni today!
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SNP’s Neale Hanvey sacked after backing campaign to sue Aberdeen MP Kirsty Blackman
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“I think the problem is not with devolution; I think it is with the party in power”, said Boris Johnson.
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NHS Fife tight-lipped after Tricia Marwick’s tweet reveals ‘ugly face of nationalism’
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Tomorrow's front page: Queen Elizabeth II - 1926-2022. #tomorrowspaperstoday
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Our Moray, North East, and Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire front page tomorrow. #bbcpapers #scotpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday
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Death, famine and insurrection: Jim Hunter highlights impact of Scotland’s potato famine
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‘Jaw-dropping’ correspondence heaps more pressure on Nicola Sturgeon and Jeane Freeman over transfer of hospital patients into care homes
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WATCH: These deer take a dander into a Scottish town
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"A plan that writes off much of the north and north-east with no contingency is not inclusive, sensible or realistic. "
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Writing exclusively for the Press and Journal, @jamie_murray explains what he wants tennis in Scotland to look like when he and @andy_murray stop playing. @BattleofTheBrit @PandJLive @JudyMurray
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Jamie Murray: More indoor courts, new talent coming through and regular live events is what we want our tennis legacy in Scotland to be
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The UK Government has been asked to intervene if the SNP “renege on their promises” to dual the A96 in full from Inverness to Inverurie.
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Amazing dashcam footage of exploding meteor over Scotland
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Comedian Frankie Boyle has donated £5,000 to food bank targetted by thieves over the weekend http://t.co/0LZBds6WmW http://t.co/LN9Bqu3UTM
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John Major’s government diverted cash from the Highlands to try to boost dwindling Conservative support in south-east England, it has been confirmed.
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‘Bitter, twisted and misleading’: Douglas Ross lays into SNP on fisheries
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. @AlexSalmond calls for Tony Blair to be prosecuted over Chilcot findings
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No lockdown protests in Aberdeen as public stick to police advice
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SFF boss Elspeth Macdonald says Boris Johnson has ‘failed’ the Scottish fishing industry
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Tories spark alarm over Aboyne Medical Practice ‘closure’ blunder
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Around this time 34 years ago a huge explosion in the North Sea took the lives of 167 men. ❤️Join us in remembering those who died in the #PiperAlpha disaster and spare a thought for the survivors and all the families affected by the tragedy.
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