Grampian County, Scotland News

IT services firm Atos has opened a new development and innovation centre in Moray, Scotland, which it says will create 50 "high value" jobs, with a further 200 to follow.

In the distance oil industry vessels bob in the North Sea. Above, there is the regular hum from helicopter engines ferrying crews between rig and airport.

ABERDEENSHIRE councillors are set sanction 300,000 for essential repairs to safeguard the future of a decaying art deco swimming pool complex - granted Category-A listed status because of its outstanding architectural and historic importance.

Two bank workers from Deeside and Donside have been getting in gear by cycling 850 miles around Scotland for charity.

Two people charged with 23 fraud-related offences who were held in England last Friday had their bail revoked yesterday.

THREE North-east politicians have joined together to start a campaign to extend the dualling of the A90 from Ellon to Peterhead.

Councillors are being asked to approve a A 300,000 programme of essential improvements to a former 1930s outdoor swimming pool complex at Macduff in Aberdeenshire.

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Aberdeenshire Council is hosted seven local organisations at the annual event, showcasing the range of organisations which operates across the area.

Aberdeen's plans to create a hydrogen economy in the Granite City, securing its place as a centre of excellence in hydrogen technologies were unveiled this morning.

Ed Davey tells conference that more than one-third of the UK's subsidies for wind, wave and tidal energy is spent in Scotland Ed Davey , the UK energy secretary, has warned that Scotland could lose billions of pounds in subsidies for renewable energy projects if it voted for independence, putting its green energy revolution at risk.

The firm said the facility, on the Forres Enterprise Park, would deliver secure IT development and testing services to support a range of public and private-sector clients across Scotland and the UK.

An eight-year-old boy died in front of his brother after he was involved in a crash with a mobile crane as he cycled along a busy road.

The lifeboat crew head to the aid of an injured dog after it falls off the cliffs at Slains Castle.

At just under 3000 feet in elevation, Ben Rinnes is not Scotland 's highest peak; it is, however, the tallest freestanding mountain in Moray, Banffshire, east of Inverness and Elgin.

The conundrum over what year the war memorial at Invercairn was erected has been solved following a Fraserburgh Herald appeal.

HEAVY events are promising to make a weighty contribution to the Gordon Castle Highland Games and Country Fair in Fochabers today.

The Chattanooga Mocs men's golf team shot 294 today in second round of the NCAA Columbus Regional on the Scarlet Course.

The council had made an offer to the supermarket firm in the hope of taking over the derelict site as the base for its new headquarters.

A DATE has been set for a public hearing on controversial plans for a A 25million shopping complex in a Moray town.