TURRIFF United’s encouraging start to the 2014/15 season continued last Saturday with a workmanlike 3-1 win over Keith at The Haughs, which kept…
ABOUT 70 firefighters tackled a huge blaze which ripped through the former Highland Haven Hotel in Macduff in the early hours of Sunday morning.
CLIMATE change was the focus for S3 Banff Academy pupils taking part in the annual Exodus Event.
THE Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) is calling on the Scottish Government to adopt a salmon quota system for 2015, to conserve plummeting salmon…
THIS summer’s Commonwealth Games may now be consigned to memory, but one of the competing teams from the Caribbean has sent a memento of their time…
A TEAM of staff from a Boyndie firm has stepped up its support for a local charity by walking 500 miles across Scotland.
TWO OF Banffshire’s prominent local historians are seeking local residents’ help to track down and record the details of inscribed stones…
THE countdown clock has started ticking again for Aberdeenshire Council Troup ward residents in the wake of last month’s epoch-making Scottish independence…
NEW Deveronvale manager Ally Macleod was left to reflect on three points that got away after his rejuvenated Banffers snatched a 2-2 draw from the jaws…
IT WASN’T the expansive football he has become accustomed to watching his team play, but Turriff United manager Ross Jack was still pleased with…
AWARD-WINNING writer Doug Simpson hopes his first book, ‘Puddick-steels in the Stovies’ – a collection of tales from the North-east…
BANFF’S Inverboyndie Beach is one of 84 designated bathing spots around the Scottish coast to be awarded the Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s…
FOGGIE’S retained firefighters will be getting the hoses out and putting the kettle on to raise cash for charity on Saturday (October 11).
A GROUP of 23 senior Banff Academy pupils has teamed up to participate in the 2014/15 Jasmine Charity Challenge with eight other Aberdeenshire secondary…
A NOTORIOUS North-east road is to undergo urgent safety improvements in £78,000 bid to reduce traffic accidents.
BANFF’S most successful privately-owned retail outlet is handing out free carrier bags to customers ahead of new legislation which kicks in this…
NEWLY-APPOINTED Deveronvale manager Ally Macleod faces a baptism by fire this week in the Princess Royal Park hot seat.
TURRIFF United will return to Highland League action on Saturday against Huntly at Christie Park with manager Ross Jack hoping his side does not suffer…
ABERDEENSHIRE Council has set the date for the local authority by-election to select a successor to the late Troup ward councillor John Duncan.
BANFF Academy went high-tech recently when the area’s biggest secondary school became the proud owner of a state-of-the-art 3D printer.